Nice to meet you
I am a specialist medical psychologist - the Israeli title for the field known elsewhere as health psychology. I work online with adults on the emotional side of illness, medical treatment and the body.
Who I work with
I am a Psycholoog NIP (membership no. 248744). NIP is a professional association, not a BIG-register statutory licence, and sessions are not reimbursed under Dutch basic health insurance. I have experience working with women through fertility, with people coping with excess weight, and with people living with chronic illness, anxiety disorders and acute medical conditions.
I trained in the women's division at Meir Medical Center and in clinics working on obesity and chronic illness - a medical gym, a sports centre for children and adolescents, and the obesity clinic within the endocrinology department. Alongside that I gained experience in the anxiety disorders unit at the Telem clinic and at the Benafshech institute for the treatment of women.
I founded the psychological service at the obesity clinic within the endocrinology department at Meir Medical Center and worked there for three years, alongside private clinics in Givat Chen and Kfar Saba. Since 2025 I have taken new clients online only, including clients in Israel and the Netherlands.
How I work
I work integratively, adapted to what the person in front of me needs. These are the approaches I draw on.
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Practical work on the thoughts, behaviours and beliefs that show up in everyday life, and on what keeps a difficulty going.
- Psychodynamic therapy
- Looking at the parts that make up a person and the relationships between them, including patterns that formed long before the illness.
- Schema Therapy
- Working with long-standing patterns - often formed in childhood - that shape how a person reads their body, their worth and other people.
- EMDR
- A structured method for processing specific distressing memories, including medical ones: a procedure, a diagnosis, a moment in a hospital.
- Psychophysiological techniques
- Body-based work on arousal, pain and anticipatory anxiety, used within therapy rather than as a standalone cure.
What I will not do
- I will not suggest that your symptoms are imaginary or that you brought the illness on yourself.
- I will not replace your medical or nutritional care, prescribe medication, or give medical advice.
- I will not weigh you, and I will not set you a diet.
- I will not promise a fixed number of sessions before I understand the problem.
Teaching and lectures for medical teams
I teach medical teams on the psychological side of their work. Topics include psychological coping with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, psychological aspects of obesity, motivation, and assessment and brief intervention within the consulting room.
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