My Journey

zzzzzz While the sounds of the “Yom Kippur War” were still echoing in my ears, I got discharged
from the Israeli army and began my personal quest. I wanted to help the wounded heal and
return to normal productive life. My first step into academia was studying Physical Therapy
At the Wingate Institute. I learned the secrets of the human body, its physical and mental strengths. I worked at the Neurology and Neurosurgery departments at “Beilinson Medical Center” in Petach-Tikva, where I learned more about the wisdom of our human brain and how it is functioning. After two years there, I realized that I have more questions than answers. I wondered why people suffer. Why do we get sick or iInjured? Why do we learn more about ourselves in times of crisis and difficulties? With much frustrations and curiosity, I went to the United States to finish my BA degree at Boston University and continued my MA in Rehabilitation counseling at the University of South Florida. My need to study psychology was clearer to me at that point. Yeshiva University and New York City were my home throughout my doctoral studies. I chose to specialize in clinical child psychology. As I learned child development, parenting guidelines, family therapy, and other systems that affect our lives, I also deepened my compassion for my own family roots and my own childhood. As I graduated, I worked with the child developmental center at Hackensack Medical Center, New Jersey, and the physical therapy department of home care. I was actually combining physical treatment with “high risk” babies and kids, while psychologically supporting and helping their mothers and families to cope. I began to understand the connections between mind and body within systems. As a psychologist, I wondered about knowing and understanding the depth of the unconscious and I continued to study Psychoanalysis at IPTAR - Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research, in Manhattan, New-York. When I returned to Israel, I was excited to discover openness to spirituality, and added to my academic degrees rich and colorful experiences in alternative medicine, spiritual healing, Huna – Hawaiian shamanism, meditation, reincarnation, aromatotherapy, and more. To date, I continue to learn fresh ideas from my patients and from encounters with others in our world community.