Best Couple Therapies Jerusalem Near Me

4worldlovers: You’ve spent years thinking about and building your career. But did you know that marriage also needs a success mindset?

Long-lasting, love-filled marriages don’t happen by chance. They are strategically built.

Whatever stage your at – pre-relationship, dating, you’re engaged, already married – or even in a perek bet stage – I can help.

There is no reason to feel ashamed. You deserved to feel loved and supported, and your feelings acknowledged.

But these skills are never taught. And it’s ok to need help.

I will work with you to become aware of where you are, and help you build the path for the future. Therapy brings up challenging feelings. Becoming aware and understanding that healthy relationships don’t just happen is an important first step.

Relationship therapy will help you create a lasting and loving relationship

I’ve been working with individuals and couples from all sectors of society for over two decades, specializing in working with those who have witnessed challenging relationships or have been in previous challenging relationships.

My education and experience have provided me with a vast range of tools that help me get to the heart of the problem quickly and efficiently.

Working with me, you can count on an efficient process. And while I’m more expensive than the kupa, I will help save you time and money, because the process with me is generally faster.

While there are no guarantees in life, I will help you bring your best self forward.

You can create a better future for yourself, your spouse and your children.

I work at your pace so that you receive results as efficiently as possible.

I am happily married for 20 years with 4 kids. My husband and I use the same tools I’ll use with you to build a loving, satisfying, deep and meaningful relationship.

I am delighted to welcome several new members to the team!

For more info, check out my sister site lovingwisely.co.il

Masters in Nutrition and Public Health (where I gained my prevention focus on creating healthy relationships)

4worldlovers: We provide top-quality therapy and emotional support to improve your life. Our workshops, events, support groups, and counseling facilitate positive change.

The Place connects the best therapists to you and your unique situation. At The Place, discover the freedom and safety to move past your issues to live your life. Our goal is to help each of our clients discover his or her own strengths as powerful tools in the healing process.

The Place offers individual therapy; support groups; teletherapy; interactive lectures; and educational classes. Our comfortable and confidential clinic allows you and your family to create positive change. We believe that the key to mental health and emotional wellbeing is inside you.

The Place is not just a mental health clinic. It’s a hub for therapy resources, self help advice, and education. Check out our social media pages and resource page to invest in yourself at your own pace. We are on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

4worldlovers: Thank you for visiting my website. I strongly believe that the capacity for healing is deeply rooted in interpersonal connections. My goal as a therapist is to create a safe and supportive environment where freedom of expression is encouraged and embraced. My style is comprehensive and I have extensive experience with NVC, CBT, DBT, EFT, IFS, and Psychodynamic Theory.

I provide compassionate and collaborative treatment and support to clients struggling with a diverse range of issues. My choice to become a therapist was inspired by my own journey and personal life experiences and represents the culmination of all that I have personally and professionally learned, practiced, and transcended. I find great joy and fulfillment in helping my clients gain insight and self-awareness, to assist in accessing innate strengths and resources in order to develop the skills and confidence required to create a more purposeful life. Each and every client receives an individualized and client-centered treatment plan as I offer services in treating “the client” - not just a potential “diagnosis.”

I graduated with a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Hunter College in New York City and received a Master of Social Work degree from Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University. I have conducted extensive graduate training in both Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as well as Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy (DBT). My affiliations with the Albert Ellis Institute and the American Institute of Cognitive Therapy has afforded me additional training in New York City. Furthermore, I have practiced at the Jewish Association for Mental Illness in London, UK. I have both inpatient and outpatient experience working with adults who struggle with a variety of mental health issues.

I utilize an integrated approach and strengths-based perspective in providing clinical treatment. My aim is to assist individuals in ultimately achieving their goals and self-actualization by way of personal development and self-empowerment. My initial stages of treatment are to explore undesirable narratives and behavior patterns, improve quality of relationships, and achieve greater self-acceptance. I possess a wealth of experience working with various populations, am culturally competent, and thrive in providing services in both individual and group frameworks. I am well-trained in assessments, diagnostics, crisis interventions, vocational training, and outside referrals, if needed, across a continuum of care. I provide useful and educational resources to enhance and sustain the healing process throughout treatment.

Strengths-Based Perspective - Emphasizes people's innate self-determination and strengths. It is a philosophy and a way of viewing clients as resourceful and resilient in the face of adversity.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - Focuses on the patterns of thinking, behavior, and emotional responses that are associated with distress or life dissatisfaction. In CBT, clients learn techniques to recognize and change these patterns to improve daily functioning and life satisfaction. CBT is an empirically supported treatment.

Schema Therapy - The 'schemas' that are targeted in treatment are enduring and self-defeating patterns that typically begin early in life. Some examples of schema beliefs are: "I'm unlovable," "I'm a failure," "People don't care about me," "I'm not important," "Something bad is going to happen," "People will leave me," "I will never get my needs met," "I will never be good enough," and so on.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) - A gentle and somatic technique used to merge tenets of CBT and "Tapping" on meridians in the body by way of discharging "stuck" emotional or physical pain. EFT can become a self-administered technique that can effectively address the underlying causes of stress by calming the amygdala or fear center of the brain, reducing stress hormone levels in the bloodstream, and activating the growth and relaxation response.

Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy (DBT) - Is a highly specialized form of CBT designed to help address problems in regulating emotions, impulse control-distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness practice.

Non-Violent Communication (NVC) - Supports change on 3 interconnected levels: with self, with others, and with groups and social systems. As such it is particularly present in the areas of personal development, and relationships. NVC is ostensibly taught as a process of interpersonal communication designed to improve compassionate connection to self and others.

The Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) - is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy. It combines systems thinking with the view that the mind is made up of relatively discrete subpersonalities, each with its own unique viewpoint and qualities. IFS uses family systems theory to understand how these collections of subpersonalities are organized and reintegrated by the individual.

Psychodynamic Therapy - Focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in a person's present behavior. The goal of this work is to assist the client in gaining insight and awareness into behavior at present, as a result of past experiences.

4worldlovers:
“The problem is the problem, the person is not the problem.”

Get started today, schedule a meeting with one of our wonderful therapists

We use stories constantly – to inform, to connect with others, to share our feelings and experiences, and even to sort out our own thoughts and feelings. Stories are used to organize our thoughts, find meaning and purpose, and establish our sense of identity in this confusing and sometimes lonely world.

JNTI provides professional, caring and affordable therapy services for the Jerusalem community. With offices located centrally in Kiryat Moshe, our dedicated staff offer a supportive and private place for self-discovery, growth and healing.

In narrative therapy, the events that occur over time in a person’s life are viewed as stories, some of which stand out as more significant or more fateful than others. These significant stories, usually stemming from negative events, can ultimately shape one’s identity. Beyond this identity, the narrative therapist views a client’s life as multitiered and full of possibilities that are just waiting to be discovered. The therapist does not act as the expert, but rather helps clients see how they are the experts regarding their own life and, as such, can uncover the dreams, values, goals, and skills that define who they really are, separate from their problems. These are the buried stories that can be rewritten and woven into the ongoing and future story of their lives.

4worldlovers:
My Role As A Therapist: After 35 years of experience in the field, I would say that a person who makes the first contact and asks to be in therapy actually is ready for a change, ready to improve his or her well-being and better his or her life. My role as a therapist is to use professional tools to facilitate the change, to change old sets of perceptions about the self and others with new sets of perceptions. Every person has a subjective world of experiences and therefore, every person needs specific, particular tools to promote the change. Treatment is a challenging journey of changes in perceptions of the internal world and the outer world, the journey in which there is a process toward a healthier and better life.

Various conditions that lead to emotional suffering can be overcome by fully understanding the condition’s roots.

The treatment process has a beginning, middle and end where both the patient and I team up to work through the process and witness the process of change.

Uncovering and realizing the unconscious principles that were experienced and dominated the behavior. These discoveries contribute to the healing process. Dream analysis is part of this process and an extremely valuable asset to uncovering the unconscious.

Constant empathy and clarification of the subjective world of experiences that lead to the emotional suffering is embedded within the entire treatment process.

The ultimate goal of my treatment of any condition is to achieve a sense of wholeness, sense of existence, and being connected to the self and actualizing it to its fullest potential.

Allowing all members to understand the dynamics of the relationship as a whole, how it was created, the roots of the behaviors and the repetitive unconscious principles.

Understanding how the system functions as a unit including strengths and weaknesses.

Understanding the subjective world of each member and their individual contribution to the whole relationship.

4worldlovers:
Every person is a world with infinite potential. Yonasan Bender, LSW’s warm and effective approach taps into that potential to help you have the life you deserve. Drawing from years of experience, Yonasan can help you navigate and solve life’s most serious problems. From Anxiety, depression, and anger, to parenting, marital conflict, personality disorders, and trauma. No matter what the challenge, there is a way forward.






Therapy works because it assumes you’re doing your best. Great therapy also assumes you can do even better. Let’s meet your challenges together.


Set goals with the therapeutic approach that will work best for you

4worldlovers: You are a 30-something who has the desire for a close relationship and a confident and intentional life path. But when it comes to crafting a plan, you feel stuck and uncertain of the best way to move forward - or perhaps you’re not even sure who you want to be.

Life Coaching is a meaningful process in which you’ll gain clarity about your choices and priorities, with a focus on how to bring about positive change for yourself.

Relationship Coaching offers powerful tools of communication to enable you to reconnect emotionally to your partner (or another significant person) and discover new closeness and love.

As your coach, I will support you on your journey with deep listening, warmth, and insight.

You’ll leave each session with greater awareness about the qualities and values that you bring to your life and your relationships.

As you take steps and see your strengths more clearly, your confidence will grow.

4worldlovers: Many of the people who come to see me are depressed and frustrated. My clients often feel very isolated, and in spite of their best efforts they just can’t seem to pull out of this state. In a similar vein, in their relationships they keep ending up in the same unhealthy and toxic patterns. Does any of this resonate?

With my 25-plus years of experience as a psychologist and psychotherapist, I can accompany and guide you to heal yourself. In my Jerusalem and Tel Aviv clinics, I offer services and specialize in three main areas: Individual psychotherapy, couples therapy, and parent consulting.

As a psychologist and psychotherapist working with hundreds of clients, I have found that “just” talking about what is bothering you is not enough. To feel better and to move on we need to get to the core of what is really going on. One of the best ways to achieve this is to focus on the here and now and to use your emotions as a “compass”. In our sessions we explore what you are experiencing in the moment, in the session, as a gateway to accessing your deeper needs. As an adjunct, and where appropriate, holistic therapies may be incorporated into our sessions.

Feel invalidated by your partner every time you try to express what you feel and what is on your mind?

Feel trapped in never-ending battles, arguments, disagreements, and fights that seem to leave you exhausted, “bruised”, and no further ahead?

Do you long to feel heard, understood, close, safe, and loved?