Hello!  שלום!
I am Nitsan, a therapist based in Tel Aviv and the founder of The Clinic at Therapy Tel Aviv, the city’s first English-speaking holistic mental health space.
My work is rooted in helping people make sense of transitions — emotional, cultural, relational, and existential. Whether you're navigating a stuck season in your 30s, the identity shift of new motherhood, or the confusion of being raised between cultures, I offer a space where your complexity is not just welcomed, but understood.
A little bit about me
I was born in Israel and raised in Las Vegas by Israeli parents. Growing up between two cultures gave me a constant front-row seat to difference: in values, traditions, languages, expectations and what it means to “belong.” That early experience still shapes the work I do today with clients navigating hybrid identities and feelings of in-betweenness.
After earning my B.S. in Psychology from the University of Arizona and my M.S. in Couples & Family Therapy from the University of Oregon, I moved to Israel “just for six months.” That was over a decade ago.
Since then, I’ve built a practice, founded a clinic, and moved through many life transitions — including partnership and parenthood. These life chapters have reshaped me and the way I show up as a therapist.
My approach​
I bring clinical knowledge, emotional attunement, and lived experience to the room. I’ve trained in mindfulness, trauma-sensitive yoga, and the Gottman Method (Level 1), and I draw from relational, psychodynamic, and experiential frameworks. But above all, I meet you human-to-human — with curiosity, honesty, and care.
Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, in transition, or simply in need of a deeper kind of conversation, I’m here to walk alongside you.
Areas of focus
- Supporting Women through Emotional “Stuckness” and connecting them back to themselves in order to feel lighter, more aligned and balanced in life.
- Helping Young Professionals overcome the high amounts of stress and anxiety typically experienced during this age.
- Working with multi-cultural clients (e.g immigrant parents) to help lessen the feeling of “where do I belong?” and increase clarity to your sense of self and personal identity.Â
- Holding space for new mothers who are feeling the tug-of-war between career ambition, family, and the quiet question: “How can I do it all?”
Guiding Framework
General Systems Theory
General Systems Theory holds the assumption that we are all a part of an interactional system — a connected web that influences our day-to-day patterns, our interactions with ourselves and others, with our community and with our society. Even the smallest shift in this expansive web can give way to larger changes in our world. And, it makes our actions make sense in the context they are in.
Communications Theory
Communications Theory works within systemic thinking and operates on the level of basic human interaction. It shines a light on the simplest “Okay”, the whispered “I’m fine” or even one’s silence and gives it space to become bigger, to be seen and to receive the attention it deserves. A systemic therapist will explore these different relationships with you, both big and small, to understand how they influence what we think and how we act.
Emotion-Focused Therapy
Emotion-Focused Therapy focuses on just that: our emotions. It looks at our base, “primary emotions” that often get overlooked and makes way for a deeper understanding of what we are feeling. This focus on primary emotion helps to shift our rigid patterns so that we can come to create new, positive interactions for ourselves.