Women have special and particular struggles around being fully themselves. Many women feel like they can’t relax in their own skin, that they are walking around and living a life that is a “good life” by many standards, yet does not feel completeley their own.

Women often feel weighed down by the expectations of others and even find themselves losing their sense of their own unique needs and gifts while focusing on the needs of others. This can happen with partners or spouses, children, parents or even employers or friends.

In therapy, there is a unique opportunity for you to slow down, to get quiet and pay attention to all those fleeting thoughts, feelings and needs you have been putting aside for a long time. I will show you, and discover with you, what it feels like to be fully and truly yourself with another person. We can then start working together towards making this experience the norm, rather than the exception, in your life.

All living beings have basic needs for both security and attachment. For many of us, at some point in life, these basic needs conflict with each other. This happens, for example, when someone we fiercely love early on in our lives cannot protect us or provide us with a sense of safety. As we grow and evolve, some of those early experiences crystalize inside us in ways that are hard to see or articulate, but are clearly felt and experienced as painful, confusing or numbing compromises of our selves.

At the heart of our psychotherapy work, we will seek to untangle these internal conflicts, to fully support your living your life as a whole person, and as the woman you need and dream to be.

I am deeply honored to work with women of all ages, and have supported very young women as well as grandmothers and great-grandmothers. I work with straight women and lesbians, with women who are married and raising families, with divorced women and single mothers, with professional women as well as women who live on their own or “off the grid”.

My varied life and professional experiences make me familiar with a very wide range of life experiences women bring into therapy, including early experiences around religion and clashing cultural values, immigration, chronic illness and disability in one’s family, creating alternative lifestyles and family arrangements and living with life-long grief.

I am Israeli-American and my services are available in English and in Hebrew.