ABOUT THE THERAPIST

Dr. Halpern is a physician with a passion for psychiatric care that includes both medical, psychological, and sociocultural approaches. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both Adult Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also working to be recognized in Israel as a מומחה in Adult, Child, & Adolescent Psychiatry. He has extensive experience working with youth and adults of all ages from many different backgrounds, and is interested in helping his patients live their best lives possible.

Dr. Halpern currently sees patients virtually in the United States and Israel from a private practice in Bet Shemesh, Israel. 

Dr. Halpern obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Halpern completed his residency in Psychiatry & Human Behavior and fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He has training in psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as family systems therapy, pastoral counseling, and integrative psychopharmacology. In addition, Dr. Halpern has rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.

Dr. Halpern has experience in integrated care, inpatient, partial, and outpatient levels of psychiatric care, substance use treatment, consult-liaison psychiatry, and community psychiatry. Dr. Halpern recently made aliyah to Israel with his family in 2023, and currently serves as an attending at Eitanim Hospital, located just outside Jerusalem, Israel. He also has a private practice in Bet Shemesh. 

In the past, Dr. Halpern served as an inpatient attending at Belmont Behavioral Hospital, located in Philadelphia, PA, part-time as an acute inpatient, consult-liaison, and emergency room consultant at Main Line Health, and as an emergency child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Philadelphia Children’s Crisis Response Center. He has provided supervision, teaching, and mentoring to psychiatric resident physicians and medical students and was the recipient of the Educational Honor Roll for two years at SKMC of Thomas Jefferson Hospital.

Dr. Halpern is ABPN Board Certified in both Adult and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Halpern is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Medical Association.