…past traumas so that you can begin to build, understand and accommodate another person in your life.

Pre-relationship therapy will help you start your relationship on the right foot, and build the strong foundation every loving and lasting relationship is based on.

Are you struggling with halachic issues?

Being frum is hard. Individuals and couples often feel isolated, dealing with issues such as negiyah.

I work with individuals and couples around their feelings about halachic issues, helping them navigate through their decisions, supporting them, and pointing them in the right direction of a rabbi, rabba or yoetzet halacha where needed.

Date coaching helps you focus on dating the right person and building a commitment that lasts. It can help you understand what type of people you’re attracting, help you make a conscious and healthy choice about who you’re dating, and give you the tools to let that special person into your life.

Through date coaching, we’ll work on where you can spend more time to yield better results as well as save time on dating aimlessly.

Date coaching will save you time and frustration.

Are you struggling with halachic issues in your dating life?

Halachic issues such as yichud, negiyah, niddah and birth control can be very confusing to navigate during the dating period.

But you don’t have to do it alone.

I’ll help you focus on your needs and where relevant, we’ll discuss halachic options and I’ll refer you to relevant sources.

I am here, to support you in whatever decision you decide to take.

There are things that you can do, to more than just survive.

Receive the skills you need to put things in perspective, open the lines of communication, and understand the triggers that crop up now, and may crop up in your marriage.

Engagement coaching will not only help you cope with drama, it will also help you strengthen your upcoming marriage so that you start it on the right foot, with the skills and resources it takes to build a strong, lasting, and healthy relationship.

Are halachic concerns causing more arguments than usual?

Halachic concerns before and after being married may trigger some couples into more arguments than usual.

While not all issues will continue to apply after you are married, it is important to deeply understand your triggers. I will help you work through these, and provide you with the skills and resources to help you deal with issues affecting you now, as well as those that may come up in your marriage. When applicable, I will point you in the right direction of a rabbi, rabba or yoetzet halacha.

Navigating differences of opinion in a safe space, we’ll talk about issues such as niddah and birth control, and I’ll help you come to a workable agreement.

I have worked with couples who have struggled with genetic issues and worked alongside machon puah and other halachic authorities as they decide how to deal with matters involving fertility and healthy pregnancies.

I have also helped couples who have decided to terminate pregnancies for any variety of reasons. For couples who have dealt with difficult pregnancies and births I incorporate Somatic Experience and EMDR trauma therapy into my work.

…make sense of things that happened in your previous, respective marriages and work on the elements that will give you, as a couple, the resources to build a loving and thriving marriage.

Physical intimacy in a second marriage

Issues around physicality may arise and these may be a result of the vast differences you experienced around sex preferences and lack of physical desire or pleasure.

I’ll help each of you explore your feelings around physicality and your expectations throughout the dating period, and your hopes and desires for the future, to help you avoid encounters that are similar to what happened in your previous marriage.

Each of you will be asked to complete a sexual intake form.

You will be asked about what parts of your sex life is working and what each of you are doing to create a positive atmosphere.

You will then be asked about what it is that is contributing to the dynamic.

By digging deep and figuring out what is getting in your way, you will be able to uncover what is fueling your dynamic so that you can start afresh.

Should there be a medical issue that is uncovered that may be contributing to the dysfunction, you may be referred to a doctor to resolve the issue.

All therapy is intended to be supportive and educational.

Note: Your clothing will always stay on. You will not be having sex in the therapeutic setting. You may be shown diagrams or photos.

In addition to dramatically improving your sex life

-Feeling out of control

-Substantial mood swings

-Difficulty establishing trusting relationships

-Difficulty with letting go of small arguments

-Taking things personally very frequently

Through the use of Somatic Experience Therapy, trauma is eliminated from the deep recesses of the mind and body allowing you to feel balanced and emotionally regulated.

Created by Dr. Peter Levine, a renowned trauma therapist, Somatic Experience Therapy works on the notion that trauma gets stuck in the body and manifests in symptoms similar to PTSD. The Somatic Therapist utilizes the body to rid the mind of these unwanted symptoms. Utilizing the body as a form of treatment as opposed to treating this cognitively, triggers the mind through the body to recall past traumas – accessing the deeply hidden memories trapped inside. The practitioner asks the client where they feel the trauma in the body and the client discharges it through noticing it and remembering different experiences that arise from the sensation in the body. A natural discharge removes the feeling of trauma from the body and the practitioner invites the client to consider corrective experiences.

What Does a session of Trauma Therapy look like?

First, the therapist will do a pre-interview to learn about your trauma and overall health history and answer any questions about your expectations, asking questions to assess how your body is responding to your trauma and stress.

The therapeutic process will involve arousing the trauma by triggering past memories and then inducing sensations of safety and calm. This process of going back and forth between these states focuses on recognizing these sensations. Trauma can interfere with our ability to recognize our internal state, and this technique helps us reconnect with ourselves and what’s going on in our bodies.

This is practiced in the safety of your therapy so that you become familiar with these sensations and once learned you will hopefully be able to down-regulate on your own. Because of how our bodies hold and express trauma, your therapist may see small movements that indicate your body moving into flight mode. You will learn to safely ride these somatic experiences out as you begin to heal.