She is adjunct associate professor at the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology and has taught and supervised graduate students for over 25 years. She is also on the faculty of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis in Philadelphia and is a training consultant for the University of Pennsylvania's Counseling and Psychological Services. She was the founding president of the Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education where she is currently on the Board and also serves as the graduate student mentorship coordinator for the Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. Dr. Goldsmith speaks on a variety of topics including trauma, eating disorders, the use of body as object, countertransference and therapeutic impasse.