ABOUT THE THERAPIST

I am a licensed clinical social worker from the US with 10 years of clinical social work experience.

Do you feel that life's challenges right now are too much for you to manage on your own? The primary assumption of my work is that you are much more capable than you may be feeling at this time.  At the moment you may have the sense that you are not coping so well and that you might benefit from some assistance. An important aspect of my job is to help appreciate your resources. At this time, whatever the problem may be, it has made it seem that things are more than you want to deal with alone.

In our current situation in Israel, almost everyone has some degree of feeling overwhelmed. October 7th was a huge shock. Although it is not surprising, the ongoing knowledge that we have some of our people living as hostages of merciless terrorists, suffering the cruelties of malnutrition and torture is a lot to deal with. When we think of them, or even if we are not constantly consciously thinking of them, it is a troubling background as we are all just trying to carry on with the tasks of daily living. The fact that our soldiers are involved in active combat is also deeply concerning. When we hear the sad news of deaths or injury of our soldiers and hostages it only adds to the difficulty of doing what we must to carry on with our lives.

Besides what everyone is dealing with, you are dealing with whatever challenges you may have in your family, in other relationships, or in your work situation. Obviously, these are difficult times for everyone in Israel. When you have other personal concerns, on top of the general situation, it's a lot. I believe that most people could benefit from talking to a therapist or counsellor, someone outside of their family or social circle, to gain more perspective on how they are managing all of these challenges and to look at what they may not be noticing about how they are navigating through all of this.

While I certainly do not ignore the pain and the difficulties, the methods I mostly use are: Solution Focused Brief Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing as well as Internal Family Systems; all of these focus on what you might be doing that's already working. My purpose is to aid you in reducing your difficulties by helping you to appreciate that you have many more capabilities than you realize.