Professional Training and Experience

Throughout the years I have worked with people struggling with issues such as depression and anxiety, trauma and loss, relationship issues, loneliness, addiction, suicidal feelings, psychosomatic problems, existential dilemmas and identity questions, as well as with people suffering from mental illness. I found that there is not one treatment suitable for all, and that this is part of what makes therapy so interesting  - finding what works for each and every individual, learning together how to open the way for resiliency and healing.

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My personal style is related and engaged. I listen attentively but I am not a “silent” therapist. I always look for the right balance of challenges and support, being active in change, or letting go in acceptance.

 

Being a psychologist in San Francisco and in Israel, I have worked with people of diverse cultural and social backgrounds and I honor each individual’s unique experience of belonging or not belonging in this society. 

 

In the past several years I have trained and worked at the following American and Israeli institutes:

• Psychological Services Center, SF, CA. An academic community clinic where I provided supervision and training for graduate students of clinical psychology

• Ohlhoff Recovery Programs, SF, CA. Residential treatment for substance abuse and addiction

• The James Goodrich Whitney Clinic, SF, CA. A community clinic in which I trained in depth psychotherapy and dream analysis

• Shalvata Psychiatric hospital, Israel. Day treatment outpatient ward

• Hof HaSharon Municipal Council, Israel. School psychologist

• Ness Tziona Psychiatric Hospital, Israel. Acute inpatient adult ward

• Dr. Tal Center for Psychotherapy, Tel Aviv, Israel

• Headspace, Bat Yam, Israel.  A youth-friendly mental health center for young people aged 12-25 

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Education

Psy.D., Doctor of Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, SF, CA

M.A., Clinical Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, SF, CA

B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel

 

Present Affiliations:

• Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology

• Israel Psychological Association

Past:

• C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, Public and Professional Programs

• American Psychological Association (APA)

• California Psychological Association (CPA)

• The International Society for the Psychological Treatment of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses (ISPS)

• Sand-play Therapists of America (STA)