English-Speaking Therapist in Jerusalem.

The work

The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run intake checklists or assign homework between sessions; I pay attention to what happens in the session, the moments when something shifts or goes flat, and the recurring pattern underneath the presenting problem. Most people already know the story of their situation and keep landing in the same place. What's missing is someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. More on how I work, and how I work with couples.

Therapy in Jerusalem: a large Anglo community, not enough English depth work

Jerusalem has one of the densest English-speaking populations in Israel, a large Anglo and Orthodox olim community, gap-year and seminary students, lone soldiers, and long-settled veterans, and a real shortage of available English-language depth therapy to match it. The Anglo-oriented clinics and lines that serve this community are valuable and often stretched. The public route through the kupot holim leans short-term and is hard to access in English. And there is a specific thing English speakers here describe: wanting not just a therapist who speaks English but one who understands the mentality, the cultural and personal texture of the life, rather than an Israeli clinician translating across it. This is private depth work in English, paid directly, outside the kupat holim system entirely.

The Jerusalem patterns

Jerusalem carries a weight other cities do not, and it presses on people in particular ways. The oleh who came for meaning and ideals and is privately exhausted by the daily reality of starting over. The gap-year or seminary student away from home for the first time, holding more than they expected. The individual or couple navigating questions that sit where psychology meets a tradition they take seriously. The family stretched between cultures, raising children in a country whose intensity does not let up. And the security reality running underneath all of it, sharpened since October 2023, the sirens, the shelters, the grief that has touched almost everyone here. None of this is pathology. It is the cost of living in a place this charged, and much of it stays hidden.

Why people in Jerusalem work with me

Three reasons. Fit, first: my whole practice is people living outside their home country, and depth-oriented work in fluent English is the default rather than a special request, so being an oleh or an international in Jerusalem needs no translating. Availability, second: the English-language depth work this community wants is in short supply and often booked out, and I have room, online, on a schedule that can cross time zones for family abroad. Privacy, third: I work entirely outside the Israeli system, so there is no kupat holim file and nothing on any local record. For concerns that turn specifically on religious questions or Jewish law, a clinician embedded in that world may be the better fit, and the Anglo organizations here can help; for the broader weight people carry, what I offer is private, depth-oriented therapy in English.

Questions people ask from Jerusalem

What people bring to online therapy

The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.

How it works

Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a free 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.