Writing

Notes on Judaism, psychology, and the inner life.

Short essays on where clinical work and Jewish tradition meet — and where they part ways.

Teshuvah and the Therapy Room

What the Jewish concept of return can teach us about the slow, non-linear work of personal change.

Why Jewish tradition distinguishes between healthy guilt and corrosive shame — and what that has to do with clinical work.

A 3,000-year-old practice of weekly stopping, viewed through the lens of contemporary regulation science.

What couples therapy can learn from how the Talmud preserves opposing views without erasing either one.

Why some of the most important Jewish work has always been done in a group of ten — and what that suggests about why group therapy works.

Notes on the relationship between a clinician's tradition and the universal work of the therapy room.