Board Suspends Oregon Psychologist Naomi Steinberg for Being a Danger to Public Health and Safety

November 11, 2025

On September 12, 2025, the Oregon Board of Psychology issued an Order of Emergency Suspension against psychologist Naomi Steinberg. 

According to the Oregon Board’s document, Dr. Steinberg involved an unlicensed individual in therapy sessions, giving him an authoritative role in the treatment of patients. That individual reinforced Steinberg’s unfounded assumption and claims to be able to “deprogram” patients from the effects of trauma or mind control by speaking key words or number sequences aloud—a modality not validated within psychology. That individual participated in about 40 patient sessions.

At the site of a recent suicide attempt by one of her patients, Steinberg tried to engage the unlicensed individual in a telephone conversation with the patient, informing law enforcement personnel at the scene that the individual could remove the patients’ suicidal intent by speaking a series of numbers to the patient over the phone.

The Oregon board found that Steinberg’s continued practice constituted a serious danger to public health or safety and thus suspended her license on an emergency basis.

Source: Order of Emergency Suspension in the matter of Naomi Steinberg, Ph.D., lic. no. 1013, case nos. 2025-032 & 2025-049, Oregon Board of Psychology, Sept. 12, 2025.