About Me

A Professional Path Shaped by Listening

For more than 25 years, I have been sitting with people in moments of uncertainty, pain, transition, and growth. Much of that experience developed through my work as a community rabbi, educator, and mentor, supporting individuals and families through emotional, relational, spiritual, and life challenges.

Today, I work as a psychotherapist in private practice, offering individual therapy for adults seeking a calm, confidential, and respectful space for emotional healing and self-understanding.

Building on my academic background in psychology, I pursued specialized training in psychotherapy to deepen this work and expand the ways I could help. Humanistic Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS) gave me further tools to help people understand their inner experience, work through emotional pain, and change patterns that hold them back.Especially amid the difficulties and turbulence of life in Israel, I value offering a steady, thoughtful space where people can feel heard, find their footing, and discover possibilities for change.

Professional Background

Qualifications

Certification in Humanistic Psychotherapy at the Israel Academic College, Ramat Gan
BA in Psychology from Bar-Ilan University
MA in management from Boston University
Rabbinic ordination from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel
Ongoing professional development through a range of courses, trainings, and workshops on specific areas of mental health, including trauma, OCD, addictions, and other clinical concerns.

Therapeutic Trainings

IFS Level 1 training, an intensive and highly regarded training in Internal Family Systems
CAMS training, focused on collaborative assessment and management of suicidal risk
Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization through the University of Pennsylvania / Coursera

Pastoral Counseling

I serve as community rabbi of Moshav Sde Ilan in the Lower Galilee. Alongside teaching and community leadership, this work has involved ongoing pastoral counseling, support during illness and grief, family and relationship challenges, questions of meaning and faith, life transitions, and moments of personal crisis.

These experiences inform my sensitivity to the personal, family, and community contexts people bring to therapy.

Professional Affiliations

I am a member of various professional associations, In Israel and Internationally which keep me connected to the latest standards, ethical guidelines, and best practices in psychotherapy.

Sessions & Fees

Individual sessions are 50 minutes, usually held weekly, either in my Tsfat clinic or online via Zoom, in English or Hebrew. The standard fee is ₪400 per session, with reduced rates potentially available on a sliding scale. I offer a brief initial consultation, free of charge and without obligation, to explore whether working together might be a good fit.

Tsfat, Depth, and Inner Life

I spent over a decade immersed in the spiritual life of Tsfat, learning from living masters of Kabbalah and Breslov Chasidut. These experiences inform the quality of attention I bring to therapy: listening for what lies beneath the surface, respecting the complexity of each person’s inner world, and remaining open to hope amid difficulty.

Why I Am Drawn to IFS Therapy

When I first encountered Internal Family Systems (IFS), I felt an immediate connection to its way of understanding the human mind. The idea that we each have different, sometimes conflicting “parts” gave me a new language for complexities I recognized in my own inner life and in the people I had accompanied over the years.

What especially resonated with me was the deeply compassionate, non-pathologizing perspective at the heart of IFS. Rather than viewing our difficult emotions, reactions, or patterns as something wrong with us, IFS begins with the assumption that every part has a positive intention, even when its behavior causes us pain. An inner critic, for example, may be trying to protect us from failure or rejection. A part that withdraws may be seeking safety. We don't have to approve of these behaviors to become curious about what lies beneath them.

What continues to draw me to IFS is how intuitive and deeply human this approach feels. I've been struck by how readily people recognize their own inner experiences in this language, and how meaningful it can be to discover that even our most troubling reactions may have an understandable purpose. In therapy, we approach these different parts with curiosity and compassion, gently exploring what they need and creating space for greater self-understanding, healing, and change.

Undersatnding IFS