A Little About Me
My whole life, I was mystified by the intricacies of memory functioning. In the beginning, this interest expressed itself in my dire (and vane) attempts to remember everything I found worth remembering.
Later, I went on to study the nuts and bolts of what contemporary science deemed important for understanding how memory and focus work. Only when my search turned inward and became body-inclusive did I feel I picked up a trail.
I was trained to work with measurable parameters like verbal memory, visual memory, short-term memory, working memory, attention span, etc. In my home country (Israel), I am licensed to conduct memory and learning disability assessments. Currently, I prefer to relegate personality constructs grounded in statistics to a separate neuropsychological expertise.
With years of language learning experiences of different sorts, I have come to appreciate the importance of an integral cognitive-emotional approach that builds on personal motivation and bodily sensations to enhance a subjective experience of being. It became clear that I want to study memory in the context of the whole person upon his/her physical, emotional, and philosophical manifestations and view cognitive peculiarities as the result of a complicated interplay between these three domains of functioning. I moved to Berkeley in 2015, where I trained as a marriage and family therapist and studied several healing modalities, among them: Realization Process, Rosen Bodywork, and Drama Therapy. These modalities helped shape my understanding of memory processes as highly individual codes that unlock feelings of connectedness to oneself and the whole.
Currently I work as a touch therapist and a psychotherapist. In my spare time, I enjoy learning languages, co-creating stories, writing poetry, adoring nature, and doing nothing in the company of my family and friends.
A Little About Me
My interest in psychotherapy began with a curiosity about people and the different ways we understand our own experiences.
Memory has always seemed especially fascinating to me. We often think of memory as a collection of things that happened in the past, but our relationship with memory is much more complicated. We remember selectively. We forget. We reinterpret. We tell stories. We imagine what might have been or what might still become.
These processes are deeply connected to the ways we understand ourselves.
I am interested in creating a space where these experiences can be explored without immediately needing to be explained, corrected, or placed into a category.
A Little About Me
My interest in psychotherapy began with a curiosity about people and the different ways we understand our own experiences.
Memory has always seemed especially fascinating to me. We often think of memory as a collection of things that happened in the past, but our relationship with memory is much more complicated. We remember selectively. We forget. We reinterpret. We tell stories. We imagine what might have been or what might still become.
These processes are deeply connected to the ways we understand ourselves.
I am interested in creating a space where these experiences can be explored without immediately needing to be explained, corrected, or placed into a category.