Clinical Experience
My professional clinical activity involves clinical practice as a Bibliotherapist, working with children, adolescent, Parents and adults. On 2017 I became a certificate Senior Supervisor by Yahat – The Israeli Association of Creative and Expressive Therapies. For the last years I supervise experienced therapists who train in the Israeli Winnicott Center - the program for psychoanalytic psychotherapy for creative and expressive arts therapists. I also supervise experienced therapists who are trained in the Parent-Child Therapy Program in Tel Aviv. In addition, I supervise experienced therapists who are training in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program, Social Work Faculty, Tel Aviv University.
I graduated the Winnicott Center for advanced psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The three years of studying at the Winnicott Center contributed a lot to my academic work, which is deeply inspired by my clinical work. I became a member of the Israeli association for relational psychoanalysis. Between 2018-2023, I also become a member of the "Siach Group: an institute for Counseling and Psychotherapy" in Tel Aviv, working on the impact of race, class, culture and gender on the therapeutic relations and therapeutic thinking.
Clinical work in the field – Psychotherapy and Bibilotherapy
Clinical Employment
1999-2000 Clinical instructor in “Enosh”, a community for young adults coping with mental disorders in Jerusalem.
2000-2001 Clinical instructor in the Adolescent Psychiatric Department at "Eitanim" Mental Hospital in Jerusalem.
2002-2003 Clinical instructor at "The house of Freedom," a community for LGBT adolescents in Tel Aviv.
2002-2003 Bibliotherapist in Practicum at the Children’s Therapy Center in Tel-Aviv. Group psychotherapy with children and parent training.
2003-2004 Bibliotherapist in practicum at "Peaceful Place,” a community for adults coping with mental disorders in a post-hospitalization procedure. Individual and group therapy.
2005-2007 Bibliotherapist in the Ministry of Education in Haifa, Bibliotherapist in a special education kindergarten for children with verbal and emotional developmental delays. Dyadic therapy, individual psychotherapy and group therapy.
2005-2007 Bibliotherapist in the Ministry of Education in Haifa, Bibliotherapist in “Shema” Center for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Children. Individual psychotherapy, Group therapy.
2004-2009 Bibliotherapist at the Psychological Developmental Center, Ministry of Health, Haifa. Individual psychotherapy, Dyadic therapy, Parent guidance, Students supervision.
2009-2010 Bibliotherapist at a project of the United Nations and the African Refugee Developmental Center, Tel Aviv. Individual psychotherapy.
2010-2012 Bibliotherapist at Telem Institute for Psychological Treatment, Ra'anana. Individual psychotherapy, Dyadic therapy, Parent guidance.
2008-2012 Supervising MA bibliotherapy students from the University of Haifa
2008-2012 Supervising MA bibliotherapy from Seminar Ha'Kibutsim College, Tel-Aviv.
2009-2012 Bibliotherapist at a Private Practice in Tel Aviv. Individual psychotherapy, Dyadic therapy, Parent guidance.
2012-2014 A member in a supervision group of leading psychoanalysts and psychiatrics in Lawrence Kansas.
2016-2026 Supervision of experienced therapist who are receiving training in the Israeli Winnicott Center, the program for psychoanalytic psychotherapy for creative and expressive arts therapists.
2016-2026 Supervision of experienced therapist who are receiving training in the Dyadic Therapy Center: Parent-Child Therapy in Tel Aviv Yaffo College.
2016-2026 Supervision of experienced therapist who are receiving training in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program, Social Work Faculty, Tel Aviv University.
2018-2023 Siach Group: Institute for relational psychotherapy and counselling. Bibliotherapist and psychotherapist with children, parents, adolescents and adults. Individual relational psychotherapy, Parent guidance.
2024-2026 Bibliotherapist and psychotherapist in “The 7/10 comfort Object Project”. Creative therapy project with survivors.
2014-2026 Bibliotherapist in a private practice in Givatayim. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adults. Senior supervision of experienced therapists.
Dyadic therapy
Short-term mother-child and father-child psychoanalytic psychotherapy assumes that children develop specific types of relationships with each parent, as well as with the parenting couple. This model integrates an intra-psychic, object-relational view with an interpersonal perspective into the treatment of relational disturbances in childhood. The same therapist meets with the mother-child, father-child dyads on a weekly basis, along with regular meetings with the parental dyad. The model focuses on the developmentally pre-latency child's need for the active participation of both parents in the here-and-now shared experiences of the therapeutic process. The participants express, in interactions and in enactments, various contents and meanings of their specific patterns of relations. The therapist addresses the behaviours as well as the meanings of relations, thus promoting reflective understanding and experiential changes in self, other, and self-other relations. The child's active and different participation with each parent is the main change-promoting factor. The child uses mainly the medium of play to express his/her needs and to mobilize the therapist's help. The therapist's access to the different dyads is utilized to better understand the explicit and implicit relational themes. The therapist supports the co-construction of new and different behavior patterns and the co-creation of additional meanings to representations. The setup fosters the child's active participation in each dyad's growth-promoting changes (Harel J, Kaplan H, Avimeir-Patt R, Ben-Aaron M, 2006)
The parent-child relationship is the patient
During dyadic therapy parent and child are in the therapy room at the same time; the object for treatment is the communication between them. The therapy method is based on the model developed by the late Dr. Miriam Ben Aharon at the University of Haifa. This is a short term, dynamic, analytic model to treat disorders between parent and child. This model is suitable for infants and young children. The model has a broad theoretical base and is nurtured by up–to-date developmental research of the “self“, the “other“ and their relationship. A central place in the therapy process is devoted to understanding the relationship between the child and each of his/her parents as a key to its improvement.