English-Speaking Psychotherapy in Israel

Attachment-Focused, Somatic, and Developmentally Informed Therapy for Women, Children, and Families

Living in Israel can bring many parts of your life into the room at once. You may be raising children across cultures and languages, navigating relationships and family expectations, carrying the impact of October 7th and the prolonged stress that has followed, or trying to understand experiences that began much earlier and continue to shape how your body responds to closeness, conflict, uncertainty, responsibility, and change. When you want to do this work in English, having a therapist who can understand both the emotional depth of what you are carrying and the context in which you are carrying it can become an important part of the work.

I am Chana Ceasar, LMFT, founder of Centering Healing, and I provide English-speaking psychotherapy in Israel for women, children through age 14, parents, and families. My work is attachment-focused, somatic, relational, and developmentally informed, bringing together relationships, development, the nervous system, and the body to understand how experiences have shaped what you or your child learned to expect from connection, protection, safety, and repair. I bring more than twenty years of experience working with children, adults, parents, caregivers, and families across childcare, infant mental health, developmental consultation, trauma treatment, and psychotherapy.

Centering Healing offers both online and in-person services in Israel, with the physical practice currently based in Kiryat Ono. At this time, I am accepting online appointments only. Online psychotherapy sessions for clients in Israel are ₪600 for 50 minutes, and in-person availability will be added to this page when appointments reopen.

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Therapy for Women Who Grew Up Unprotected

Understanding What Your Nervous System Learned About Relationships

You may be the person other people depend on, the one who notices what needs to be done, anticipates reactions, handles the details, takes responsibility, and keeps moving when something around you feels uncertain. You may also find yourself replaying conversations, tracking subtle changes in another person's mood, questioning your experience after conflict, struggling to maintain a boundary once someone becomes upset, or feeling your body brace when an important relationship feels uncertain. These patterns often have a history.

When children grow up without enough adult protection for what they are developmentally expected to manage, they adapt to the relationships and environments available to them. Your nervous system may have learned to preserve connection by becoming watchful, useful, pleasing, quiet, highly independent, emotionally self-contained, or responsible beyond your years. Those adaptations can become deeply familiar ways of moving through relationships, even when the circumstances that originally required them are no longer present.

As an adult, the unprotected child may show up through relational hypervigilance, overfunctioning, people-pleasing, shame, self-blame, dissociation, shutdown, difficulty trusting your own experience, or feeling responsible for the emotional stability of the people around you. You can understand intellectually that you are safe or that someone else's feelings are theirs to manage while your body continues to brace, freeze, anticipate rejection, or prepare to take care of the relationship. Therapy allows us to understand what your nervous system learned and begin creating repeated experiences of protection, connection, clarity, boundaries, and repair.

My work with women includes attachment trauma, childhood emotional neglect, childhood sexual abuse, mother-daughter sexual abuse, relational trauma, dissociation, shame, overfunctioning, difficulty trusting yourself, and the lasting effects of growing up without enough adult protection. We look at the experiences that shaped what became familiar, how those patterns continue to organize your present relationships, and what your nervous system needs for safety, security, and self-trust to become increasingly familiar.

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Childhood Sexual Abuse Therapy

When Early Violations Continue to Shape Adult Relationships

Childhood sexual abuse can shape far more than your memories of what happened. Sexual abuse, grooming, coercion, boundary violations, secrecy, and sexualized relationships can influence what the nervous system learns about closeness, attention, power, responsibility, safety, boundaries, and what may happen when another person wants access to you. Those experiences can continue to influence relationships with partners, family members, friends, authority figures, and your own body long after childhood has ended.

The abuse also happened within a larger developmental and relational environment. Who protected you, who believed you, what adults noticed, what they missed, what you were expected to carry, and what happened when you needed help all become part of the story your nervous system learned about relationships. Therapy gives us room to understand the abuse alongside these experiences and the adaptations that helped you survive them.

My work with survivors can include attachment, shame, dissociation, freeze and fawn responses, boundaries, self-trust, relationships, sexuality, body-based responses, and the ways early experiences continue to influence what feels familiar in adulthood. We work toward strengthening your ability to recognize what is happening inside you, trust your own experience, and feel increasingly solid in the way you relate to yourself and other people.

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Mother-Daughter Sexual Abuse Therapy

Specialized Therapy for a Form of Abuse That Can Be Difficult to Name

When sexual abuse, grooming, sexual boundary violations, or sexualized behavior occurs within the mother-daughter relationship, the person responsible for care, protection, attachment, and early emotional development is also involved in the violation. This can create a particularly complicated relational experience because attachment and harm become organized around the same relationship. A daughter may grow up without language for what happened while carrying the effects in her body, relationships, boundaries, sexuality, shame, and sense of herself.

Mother-daughter sexual abuse can include experiences that were overt as well as experiences that were confusing, normalized, disguised as caregiving, or difficult to recognize as sexual abuse at the time. Understanding what happened often involves examining the larger relational environment, the protection that was available, the ways boundaries were organized in the family, and what you learned about your right to privacy, autonomy, comfort, and bodily ownership. Recognition can become an important part of making sense of experiences that may have felt fragmented or impossible to explain.

This is a specialized area of my clinical work. Therapy gives us space to name and understand these experiences within their developmental and relational context and to work with the attachment, somatic, emotional, and relational patterns that developed around them.

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Trauma Within the Jewish Community

Holding Individual and Collective Experience in the Same Room

For Jewish women and families, trauma can exist within a larger story of family, community, identity, belonging, history, safety, and collective experience. Since October 7th, many people living in Israel have also been carrying prolonged uncertainty, grief, military service within families, separation, disrupted routines, exposure to threat, concern for people they love, and the cumulative effects of living in a body that has had limited opportunity to experience sustained safety. These experiences can affect sleep, relationships, parenting, concentration, regulation, connection, and the amount of energy required simply to move through ordinary life.

Current experiences can also activate older ones. A nervous system that already learned to expect unpredictability, abandonment, responsibility, danger, or inadequate protection may recognize something painfully familiar in prolonged uncertainty. Understanding what is happening now can therefore include both the present circumstances and the earlier experiences your body may be connecting to them.

My work makes room for the personal, relational, developmental, cultural, and collective layers of these experiences. For people living in Israel, the reality surrounding you belongs in the therapeutic room alongside the rest of your story.

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Therapy for Children Through Age 14

Understanding What Children Communicate Through Behavior

Children communicate through behavior, bodies, play, relationships, routines, and development long before they can fully explain what they are feeling, fearing, needing, or trying to protect. Your child may become anxious, aggressive, withdrawn, controlling, highly sensitive, clingy, overwhelmed by transitions, or quick to shut down. Changes in sleep, eating, toileting, school, play, separation, friendships, or family relationships can also tell us something about what your child's nervous system is managing.

Understanding a child requires looking at more than the behavior that brought the family to therapy. I consider the child's age, development, relationships, history, strengths, sensory and regulation patterns, adverse experiences, relational health, and what is happening in the child's environment now. This helps us build a fuller picture of what the behavior may be communicating and what kinds of experiences may support the child's development and regulation.

Depending on your child's age and needs, therapy may incorporate conversation, play, movement, creative activities, body awareness, caregiver-child interaction, and direct parent participation. Caregivers remain an important part of the process because children develop within relationships, and the relationships surrounding the child become part of how healing happens. Parent involvement can help you understand patterns you are seeing, recognize what supports regulation and connection, and create different experiences within the caregiver-child relationship.

Psychotherapy sessions for children in Israel are ₪600 for 50 minutes. Parents begin through the Child and Family Support page so I can learn about your child, understand what is bringing you to therapy, and determine the appropriate next step.

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Infant and Early-Childhood Developmental & Attachment Consultation

Understanding Your Young Child in the Context of Development and Relationships

The first years of life contain an extraordinary amount of development, and infants and young children often show us that something needs attention through regulation, behavior, sleep, separation, play, sensory responses, relationships, feeding, transitions, or changes in developmental functioning. You may know that something is happening with your child while still feeling unsure about what you are seeing, why it is happening, or what kind of support would fit. A developmental and attachment consultation gives us space to slow the picture down and understand your child within the relationships and experiences surrounding them.

I look at development, attachment relationships, regulation, sensory patterns, routines, caregiving history, relational health, stressors, strengths, and behavior across environments. Together, these pieces help us develop a more complete picture of what your child's behavior may be communicating and where support may be most useful. This service is especially useful for parents of infants and children from birth through age five.

Recommendations are individualized to the child and family. They may include changes within the caregiving environment, parent-child work, ongoing therapy, developmental assessment, school or childcare support, or collaboration with another professional. The purpose is to help you understand your child more clearly and identify next steps that fit their development, relationships, and current needs.

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Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) Assessment

A Developmentally Informed Understanding of History and Current Functioning

The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, or NMT, provides a structured way of organizing information about development, relationships, adverse experiences, stress-response patterns, current functioning, and strengths. Developmental adversity is one part of that picture, alongside relational health, the timing of experiences, available supports, developmental needs, and the patterns that developed over time. Looking at these pieces together creates a more detailed understanding of how development may have been shaped and what kinds of experiences may be useful now.

An NMT assessment can be used with children or adults when a more comprehensive developmental picture would help guide treatment planning and individualized recommendations. The process brings together developmental history, relational experiences, current functioning, strengths, and regulation patterns to identify areas of vulnerability and resources that can be built upon. The resulting recommendations are organized around the individual's developmental needs and the question the assessment is intended to help answer.

NMT is a multi-step process. The first step is submitting a written inquiry so I can understand who the assessment is for, the questions you are hoping to answer, and whether NMT is the appropriate service.

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Online and In-Person Psychotherapy in Israel

Current Appointment Availability

Centering Healing is structured to provide both online and in-person psychotherapy in Israel, with the physical practice currently based in Kiryat Ono. Having both options allows the practice to support adults, children, and families through the format that fits the clinical work and the needs of the person or family. Information about the physical office and in-person scheduling will be updated here as availability changes.

At this time, I am accepting online appointments only. Online sessions allow clients throughout Israel to work with me in English without needing to travel to Kiryat Ono. When in-person appointments become available again, this page will include current office information and instructions for scheduling.

Psychotherapy Fees in Israel

₪600 for a 50-Minute Therapy Session

Psychotherapy sessions for clients in Israel are ₪600 for 50 minutes. Adults who are ready to begin use the Adult Trauma Therapy pathway, while parents seeking psychotherapy for a child use the Child and Family Support pathway. The same Israel psychotherapy fee applies to adult and child sessions, with the structure of treatment determined by the needs of the client or family.

A limited number of scholarship spaces may be available for people who need a reduced fee in order to participate in ongoing therapy. Scholarship availability changes as spaces open and close, and any reduced fee needs to be an amount that can be consistently sustained for ongoing sessions. If you would like to be considered for a scholarship space, this can be disced during our first session or via my email [email protected](opens in new tab) and include the amount you can consistently pay for weekly therapy and your general availability.

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About Chana Ceasar, LMFT

Attachment, Development, Relationships, and the Nervous System Across the Lifespan

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the founder of Centering Healing, with more than twenty years of experience working with children, adults, parents, caregivers, and families across childcare, infant mental health, developmental consultation, trauma treatment, and psychotherapy. My clinical work is attachment-focused, somatic, relational, and developmentally informed, with particular attention to how experiences within relationships shape what the nervous system learns to expect from other people and from itself. I work across the lifespan because the patterns we experience in adulthood often have developmental roots, and the experiences children have within relationships become part of the foundation they carry forward.

My work brings attachment, development, relationships, the nervous system, and the body into the same clinical picture. We look at experiences of protection, connection, neglect, fear, abuse, separation, relational health, and repair to understand how they shaped the strategies that helped you adapt and the patterns that continue to organize life now. Therapy creates repeated opportunities to experience protection, connection, boundaries, repair, and self-trust in ways that can become increasingly familiar.

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Begin Psychotherapy in Israel

Choose the Path That Fits What You Are Looking For

Adults seeking psychotherapy in Israel begin through the Adult Trauma Therapy pathway, where you can learn more about the process and schedule your first 50-minute session. Parents seeking psychotherapy for a child through age 14 begin through the Child and Family Support pathway, where you can share information about your child and what has led you to seek support. At this time, all psychotherapy appointments in Israel are being provided online, at a fee of ₪600 for 50 minutes.

If you are seeking a parent consultation, infant or early-childhood developmental and attachment consultation, NMT assessment, or scholarship space, use the Israel Services Inquiry below. You can also use the form when you are unsure which Centering Healing service fits what you or your child are experiencing. I review each inquiry personally and use the information you provide to determine the appropriate next step.

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