Our Team
SafeHeart’s therapists all have clinical certifications (psychologists, psychiatrists, and clinical social workers), with significant experience in the fields of trauma and a particular interest in psychedelics.
Board of Directors
Guy Simon
Board Member, Chairman of the Clinical Advisory Committee
M.A, M.S.W, PhD(c), Psychotherapist with expertise in trauma.
Prof. Roy Salomon
Board member, Head of Research
and data collection
PhD., Ms.c, Department of Psychology, Haifa University
Shiran Maor
Chairman of the Board of directors
and Fund-Raising
Management
Efrat Atun
CEO
Ori Schnitzer
Global Ambassador
Yair Grynbaum
Emergency Interventions Manager
Maayan Gadiel
Survivor Support Community Manager
Eilon Kaufman
Survivor Support Case Manager
Chen Jakobi
Therapists Community Manager
Ron Toledano
Groups and Retreats Coordinator
Shira Elmkies
Therapists Administrative Coordinator
Reut Plonsker
VP Acute Therapeutic Interventions
Sam Rush Soclof
COO
Shiri Levi
Emergency Interventions Manager
Shani Cohen
Head of Holistic Treatments
Inbar Franko
Survivor Support Case Manager
Nofar Peretz
Therapists Community Manager
Hila Shamir
Finance Manager
Michal Gordon
Government Registration Referent
Noa Refaeli
COO
Dr. Demian Halperin
Head of Psychiatric Support
Karina Dessau
Head of Holistic Treatments
Oded Zarzevski
Emergency Interventions
Tal Birman
Survivor Support Case Manager
Nora Sadan
Therapists Community Manager
Adva Nidam Alis
Therapists Administrative Coordinator
Avishai Shapira
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Tal Zagursky
Director of Clinical Services
Igal Tartakovsky
Head of Support Groups
Inbal Izhak
Emergency Interventions
Dana Steger
Survivor Support Case Manager
Danny Kinreich
Survivors' Families Project Leader
Noam Dahan
Therapists Administrative Coordinator
Training Team
Dr. Tal Shany-Ur
Supervisor
Rehabilitation psychologist and supervisor, and neuropsychologist. Specializes in treating trauma incorporating mind-body and Buddhism-based interventions
Dr. Ayelet Cohen Vidr
Supervisor
Clinical psychologist. Background in psychedelic psychotherapy, facilitator of mind-body group therapy
Dr. Hadas Zeevi Sella
Supervisor
Clinical psychologist. Supervisor in the field of trauma, cptsd, secondary traumatization, resilience and growth
Dr. Avital Dimant Litvin
Supervisor
Clinical psychologist and supervisor. Psychodynamic therapist, specializes in trauma and loss
Marlen Maor
Supervisor
Clinical psychologist and supervisor. Therapist, educator, and speaker on the topic of trauma therapy in Israel and around the world
Tamar Einy-Lehman
Supervisor
Music, voice and movement therapist, psychotherapist and group analyst. Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy graduate
Naama Bar On
Supervisor
Supervising Clinical Psychologist. Regional Mental Health Coordinator and Director of a Multidisciplinary Mental Health Clinic at Meuhedet Health Services.
Niv Agam
Supervisor
Clinical psychologist & supervisor; Meditation instructor; Founder & Chair of NGO "Dreamers Home;" Head psychologist at day care unit of Be'er Sheva Mental Health Center; MAPS certificate
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Evi Ziv
Supervisor
MSw
Israeli Center for Addictions (ICA); Psychotherapist and Lecturer, Dual Diagnosis Training Coordinator; Staff Member, Lev-Hasharon Medical Health Center Dual Diagnosis Ward
Clinical Advisory Board
The national clinical director of Amcha, a senior expert psychiatrist and psychotherapist, with over 30 years of experience especially in community psychiatry. Has special expertise in the treatment of acute and chronic trauma
Prof. Zahava Solomon
Israel Prize laureate, researcher in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, mental health and social work. She served as the head of a research branch in the mental health department in the IDF, at the rank of lieutenant colonel
Prof. Shaul Lev-Ran
Psychiatrist, specialist in addiction treatment
Co-founder and academic director, the Israeli Center for Addictions
Researches mental effects of psychoactive substances
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Dr. Nitza Nakash-Axelrod
Psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of PTSD and director of the Dror Clinic for CBT cognitive behavioral therapy and research
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Dr. Raz Gross
Medical Doctor and researcher. Psychiatrist and epidemiologist at . Sheba Tel-HaShomer Medical Centre. Researches cutting edge psychedelic therapy with PTSD patients
Scientific Advisory Board
Prof HGJM Eric Vermetten
MD, PhD, clinical psychiatrist at the Department Psychiatry at Leiden UMC& Adjunct Professorsh at the Department Psychiatry of New York UMC. He is an expert in biological-based interventions in psychotraumatology MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine and medical cannabis.
Prof Yael Niv
PhD, neuroscientist who studies human and animal reinforcement learning and decision making. She is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University and the co-director of the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Neuropsychiatry (CCNP). She is an expert in computational psychiatry using computational models of learning and decision making to understand mental health conditions
Prof Roee Admon
PhD, neuroscientist at the school of Psychology at the University of Haifa.
an expert on the behavioral,psychological, physiological, endocrinological and neural measures of stress and trauma in healthy as well as psychopathological populations.
Prof Mario Mikulincer
PhD, Professor of Psychology at Reichmann University. He is a renowned expert in emotional regulation, post-traumatic processes, and coping with stress
Prof Olivia Carter
PhD. cognitive neuroscientist at the school of psychology, University of Melbourne. She was Executive Director of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the president to the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Prof. Carter is an expert in consciousness research and specifically in the field of psychedelics.