Clinical Team

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Supervisor

Dr. Adams is a licensed psychologist and internationally recognized expert in treating trauma-induced intimacy and addictive disorders and the author of Silently Seduced, and When He’s Married to Mom.

In 2010, Dr. Adams was part of a focus group set up to advise the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on developing criteria for security clearance of federal employees. 

He specifically advised this office on matters related to sex addiction and personality disorders.

Dr. Patrick Carnes, internationally recognized author and expert, wrote the following in his review of Ken’s first book, Silently Seduced, “Author, Ken Adams, is one of those rare combinations of competence as a writer, clinician, and researcher."

Workshop Facilitator 

Chananya Abraham graduated with a  Masters of Science in Human Services from Post University, and Masters of Arts in Psychology from The New School of Social Research.

Chananya has worked with a wide variety of issues & concerns including but not limited to: depression, anxiety, parenting-related issues, religion-related challenges, career challenges, relationship issues, OCD and eating disorders, and ADHD-type issues.  

Chananya's counseling style is interactive and question-based, with honest and thorough constant feedback. 

Workshop Facilitator 

Yaakov Kafka has been practicing individual and group therapy for five years. 

His private practice has been built around Internal Family Systems, and other modalities, and their applications together.  

After completing his MSW from Rutgers University, he worked at a community outpatient mental health center providing group and individual therapy as well as in-home family therapy in both English and Spanish. 

Yaakov believes we all have the ability to heal ourselves, and he feels honored to help others in their journey through their inner worlds.   

Workshop Facilitator 

Motty received his MSW from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University, and is a level 1 certified IFS therapist, as well as a certified life coach.

Having been part of Kesher in Israel, Motty has spent over 20 years working with individuals and their families on their healing journey. 

Being trauma informed allows Motty to help survivors work through their pain and struggles. His empathy and curiosity help nurture a warm, safe and supportive space for his clients'  on their journey to healing. 

Motty's goal is to help each client discover their true respected self.

Workshop Facilitator 

Shlomo received his BA in psychology from Touro University and his MSW from Barry University.

Shlomo specializes in people. 

He has clinical experience in treating symptoms of depression, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma, guilt, shame, self exploration, and chronic pain/illness.

In his practice, Shlomo utilizes psychodynamic principles and targeted behavioral changes to guide his patients through the process of self discovery and actualizing the removal of barriers to feel connected.

Workshop Facilitator 

Shmuel received his degree from Bellevue University, and is currently concluding his PhD degree.

Shmuel's  goal as a therapist is to help you learn skills for leading a more fulfilling and functional reality and to help you on your way to living your best life. Shmuel uses an empathetic and individualized approach to help people of all backgrounds navigate life issues and stressors and make positive and meaningful changes. Shmuel works with individuals, couples, and adolescents on relationships, intimacy, parenting, life transitions, self-esteem, childhood traumas, traumatic events, and anxiety. 

After many years as a pastoral counselor, Shmuel came to understand that the best way to help others heal was first to do the work myself by entering into therapy. After over 20 years of doing that work, Shmuel became a therapist to help people like you face your traumas and limiting beliefs. Shmuel knows what it means to live in darkness; let me help you find your light.

Co-founder

Senior Rabbinical Supervisor

Senior Retreat Supervisor

Rabbi Russell is a psychotherapist in private practice in Jerusalem. He holds an MSW from Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work and completed the Clinical externship program at the prestigious Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy in NY. 

He is a popular author and speaker who has presented on many mental-health related topics throughout the world. 

His expertise is in working with the Orthodox Jewish community on issues relating to Marriage, struggling adolescents, teens & their families, treatment of trauma in general, and in particular sexual abuse. 

He is considered an authority on the challenges of "at risk" children & teens.

Senior Supervisor

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk is a psychiatrist, author, researcher and educator based in Boston, MA.

 Since the 1970s his research has been in the area of post-traumatic stress. He is the author of The New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score.

Dr. Van der Kolk served as a past president for the International Society for Traumatic stress Studies and former co-director of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. He is a professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and president of the Trauma Research Foundation in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Dr. Van der Kolk has published over 150 peer reviewed scientific articles.

His books include Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (1984), Psychological Trauma (1987), Traumatic Stress (1996, with Alexander C. McFarlane and Lars Weisæth) and The Body Keeps the Score (2014).

Senior Rabbinical Supervisor

Rabbi Avrohom Bleich is the Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Yisroel – Bais Yehuda in Oak Park, MI. 

A native of New York, Rabbi Bleich and his family spent 23 years in Modiin Ilit, Israel, where he founded and led a yeshiva, before returning to the United States to take on the Rabbinate in Oak Park. 

Rabbi Bleich studied in Yeshiva Karlin Stolin in New York and Yeshiva Shaarei Simcha in Yerusholayim, receiving ordination from the Stoliner Rosh Yeshiva Harav Wolpin ZL, Harav Simcha Kook ZL, the Debretziner Rov Shlita, and others.

 Over the past decades, he has counseled, taught, lectured and written on a wide range of Torah topics.

Senior Supervisor

Dr. Janina Fisher is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor at  Harvard Medical School. 

An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation and the author of three books, 

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022). 

She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based interventions into trauma treatment, and she is also the creator of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) therapy.

Senior Supervisor

Dr. Jacob Ham is a clinical psychologist and Director of the Center for Child Trauma and Resilience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. 

He trains and consults others in treating children, families and adults who have experienced family trauma. 

He also provides psychotherapy through his faculty practice and collaborates on research in child traumatic stress and psychotherapy. 

Senior Supervisor 

Dr. Frank Anderson began his journey by earning his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1985, followed by his M.D. degree from Rush University Medical School in 1989. 

He completed his residency in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. 

After graduation, he stayed on as a clinical instructor at Harvard while working as a staff psychiatrist at the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute under the direction of Bessel van der Kolk.

In 1994, Dr. Anderson launched his private practice, centered on the treatment of trauma, including single-incident trauma, complex trauma, dissociative identity disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Providing compassionate care, he also specializes in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. Patients benefit from Dr. Anderson's psychopharmacology expertise as well as his training in sensory motor psychotherapy (SP) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).
     Dr. Anderson’s professional focus expanded in 2004 after he met his mentor and friend Richard Schwarz, Ph.D., founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS), a model that combines systems thinking and multiplicity of the mind. Dr. Anderson learned to integrate the IFS model into his passion for psychopharmacology, neurobiology and trauma therapy; He and Dr. Schwartz currently teach IFS, Trauma and Neuroscience, a five-day intensive training for therapists. In 2013, Dr. Anderson was named chairman of the Foundation for Self Leadership (FSL)—a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing IFS via research, scholarships and outreach.

     Today, Dr. Anderson serves as FSL executive director and continues to provide consultation, individual therapy and couples therapy at his office in Concord, Mass. Additionally, he maintains an active career as a speaker, teacher, consultant, writer and researcher who travels the globe, often conducting seminars, workshops and training programs. He also remains affiliated with the Center for Self Leadership and Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute. 

Clinical Advisor

Sarah Bridge has been counseling children, adolescents, and adults for over 28 years. She has worked in hospital settings, community behavioral health and private practice. Sarah's depth of knowledge enables her to work with a variety of challenging issues to help people in effective and empowering ways.  

For the past 14 years, Sarah, has had the privilege to work and lecture with Pia Mellody, training mental health professionals on Pia Mellody's Post Induction Therapy (PIT) trauma treatment model. 

Sarah also works as a Lecturer/Trainer for PIT Intensive Professional Trainings for The Meadows Treatment Center in Phoenix and Wickenburg AZ.

Sarah also provides consultation to other therapists nationwide and internationally on this highly effective treatment Model.

Consultant

Rozi Wax has been a licensed therapist for almost 40 years and is trained in Somatic intervention, EMDR, CBT, Gottman, NLP, Safe & Sound Protocol(SSP). 

Rozi obtained her Master of Arts degree in psychology in 1982 from the University of Notre Dame.  She works with adolescents and adults specializing in anxiety and trauma. 

Rozi has worked extensively with childhood abuse and domestic violence issues.  

In addition to individual therapy, Rozi is a highly skilled couples/ marriage therapist.  Rozi strives to assist her clients in working through the stumbling blocks in the pursuit of self-actualization.

Rozi also serves on the board of directors for Nefesh, The International Network
of Orthodox Mental Health Professionals.

Senior Somatic Advisor/Supervisor

Sergio Ocampo serves on the Board of  Directors of Dr.  Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing Institute and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and is EMDR trained.

Specializing in treating anxiety, depression and symptoms of trauma, his work focuses around the latest tools in helping resolve difficult emotional experiences as well as relationships for his clients.

Applying Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, and other somatic approaches, Sergio helps people gently heal.

 His work includes both somatic and cognitive interventions such as Somatic Experiencing, Narrative Therapy, Affective Neuropsychology and EMDR.

Sergio researches and writes about how early life adversity and overwhelming experiences affect the nervous system and its consequent emotional reactions. Sergio proposes that anyone can achieve happiness, not matter how difficult or traumatic their lives have been. 

Sergio’s moto is: 

Anxiety and Depression are not a life sentence, but a temporary discomfort.

 Speaking four languages, Sergio brings a worldly and experienced approach to therapy.