English-language couples therapy options in Israel are limited. Most established practitioners work in Hebrew, and the English-speaking providers are concentrated in a few Tel Aviv and Jerusalem addresses with long waitlists. For couples where one partner is Israeli and one isn't, or for olim and expats who need to do this work without translating it into a second language, finding the right fit takes time.
I work with couples who need to work in English and are living in Israel. Couples where one partner is Israeli and one is American, British, Canadian, South African, or from somewhere else. Couples who made aliyah together and found that the move did different things to each of them. Expat couples on a defined posting. Mixed-cultural and mixed-background couples carrying the weight of two different sets of assumptions about marriage, family, conflict, and what you owe each other.
Israel has its own texture for couples. The intensity of daily life, the closeness of extended family, the porousness between work and home, the unavoidable weight of the security situation — none of these go away when you close your apartment door. They end up in the relationship. Most couples find they can't sort out what belongs to them and what belongs to the environment until someone outside the environment is helping them look.
The work
The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run through intake checklists or assign exercises between sessions. I pay attention to what happens in the room: what you're saying, what you're not saying, the moments when something shifts or goes flat or speeds up. That's the material we work with.
Most people arrive already knowing the story of their situation. They've told it to themselves a hundred times and always land in the same place. What's missing is a different angle, someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. That's what I offer. Not interpretation from a distance, but attention in the room, offered as it happens.
I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is usually about finding the pattern underneath the presenting problem, the thing that keeps recurring in different forms across different circumstances. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about. Both come down to the same thing: seeing what you haven't been able to see, and from there, actually being able to do something different.
Being in Israel
For couples in Israel where one or both partners aren't Israeli: the cultural distance is real even when everyone speaks good English at home. What the Israeli partner finds normal and the non-Israeli partner finds overwhelming — about family involvement, about directness, about how conflict is done, about how much the political situation is allowed into the living room — is worth making explicit rather than leaving it to calcify into resentment. For olim couples: aliyah is one of the most stressful things a relationship can absorb. The dream you arrived with and the reality you're living in are almost never the same thing, and the gap between them tends to land on the partnership.
What couples bring to online therapy
Couples I work with come for recurring conflict, communication problems, infidelity and broken trust, emotional distance, codependency, resentment, sexless marriage, attachment issues, and the strain of major life transitions. Online marriage counseling and relationship therapy in English make it possible to do this work without geographic limits, whether you need a couples therapist, a marriage counselor, or relationship counseling that goes deeper than communication exercises.
How it works
One thing worth naming: I'm American. That brings a different frame than most couples therapy available in English here - less structured and technique-driven, more focused on what the dynamic is actually about.
Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a brief 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.