Elana Godley, MA

You may be holding everything together while feeling anxious, disconnected or stuck. Perhaps the same arguments keep happening, you’ve lost touch with what you want, or difficult experiences leave you constantly on guard. You want something to change, but you may not yet know where to begin.

We begin there, together. I offer a warm, steady space where you can speak openly, feel understood and explore difficult things at a pace you can manage. My approach is curious, collaborative and active: we make sense of what is happening, notice the patterns that keep you caught, and find practical ways to respond differently.

I bring more than 31 years of experience across psychology, psychotherapy, relationships, leadership and mind–body work. I draw on that breadth to shape our work around you—combining deeper exploration with tools you can use in everyday life.

Our work might help you settle when you feel overwhelmed, find your voice in a relationship, loosen the grip of familiar reactions, or reconnect with parts of yourself that have been pushed aside. We pay attention to what happens between sessions, so that what you discover becomes something you can use.

The aim is greater freedom to choose how you respond, connect and live—with more trust in yourself and your ability to meet what comes.

The destination for good therapy is your life.

Much of my work is with people whose lives have become narrowed by anxiety, depression, complex trauma or patterns they can no longer find their way out of — and with people who are questioning who they are, how they are living, or what they want from the next part of their lives.

I have worked extensively with soldiers and reservists, including people diagnosed with PTSD. That work is about more than managing symptoms: it is about understanding what trauma has done, rebuilding a sense of agency, and helping life become larger than the loops of fear, vigilance or survival.

I particularly enjoy working with people in midlife and later life. And because my background spans both psychotherapy and organisational psychology, I can also work with the very human impact of leadership, professional pressure and major career change.

 Compassionate, but not passive. I want you to feel deeply heard and understood, but I will also be present and engaged in the work with you — asking questions, noticing what may be difficult to see on your own, offering another perspective, and gently challenging where that may be useful.

I bring warmth, steadiness and honesty to the relationship. I will meet you where you are without assuming that I know better than you what your life should look like. My role is to help create the safety and space for you to explore, reflect and discover what is true for you — while supporting you to trust your own capacity to find your way forward.

I offer in-person sessions in Raanana and Tel Aviv, as well as online therapy for clients in Israel and internationally.

I have been working with people for more than 31 years and continue to invest deeply in learning, supervision and current research across psychotherapy, trauma, resilience and mind–body approaches.

If you are wondering whether working together might be right for you, you are welcome to get in touch for a brief initial conversation.