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
Shiran Maor
Chairman of the Board of Directors
and Head of Fundraising
Prof. Roy Salomon
Board Member, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board
PhD., Ms.c, Department of Psychology, Haifa University
Guy Simon
Board Member, Chairman of the Clinical Advisory Board
M.A, M.S.W, PhD(c), Psychotherapist with expertise in trauma.
Management
Efrat Atun
CEO
Ori Schnitzer
Global Ambassador
Shiri Levi
Emergency Interventions Manager
Maayan Gadiel
Survivor Support Community Manager
Inbar Franko
Survivor Support Case Manager
Nofar Peretz
Therapists Community Manager
Adva Nidam Alis
Therapists Administrative Coordinator
Hila Shamir
Finance Manager
Reut Plonsker
VP Acute Therapeutic Interventions
Sam Rush Soclof
COO
Dr. Demian Halperin
Head of Psychiatric Support
Oded Zarzevski
Emergency Interventions
Dana Steger
Survivor Support Case Manager
Nora Sadan
Therapists Community Manager
Igal Tartakovsky
Retreats and Group Processes
Michal Gordon
Government Registration Referent
Noa Refaeli
COO
Tal Zagursky
Director of Clinical Services
Karina Dessau
Holistic Treatments
Inbal Izhak
Emergency Interventions
Tal Birman
Survivor Support Case Manager
Noam Dahan
Therapists Administrative Coordinator
Danny Kinreich
Survivors' Families Project Leader
Avishai Shapira
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Yair Grynbaum
Complex cases
Shani Cohen
Head of Holistic Treatments
Eilon Kaufman
Survivor Support Case Manager
Chen Jakobi
Therapists Community Manager
Shira Elmkies
Therapists Administrative Coordinator
Nir Melamed
Group Processes Coordinator
Training Team
Dr. Ayelet Cohen Vidr
Clinical psychologist. Background in psychedelic psychotherapy, facilitator of mind-body group therapy
Liora Rosenberg
Educational psychologist and supervisor, specializing in trauma and loss. Established and managed the trauma treatment unit in the educational psychological service. Engaged in the training and guidance of therapists and professional teams in the field of trauma and grief treatment.
Dr. Avital Dimant Litvin
Clinical psychologist and supervisor. Psychodynamic therapist, specializes in trauma and loss
Dr. Naama Bar On
Supervising Clinical Psychologist. Regional Mental Health Coordinator and Director of a Multidisciplinary Mental Health Clinic at Meuhedet Health Services.
Dr. Tal Shany-Ur
Rehabilitation psychologist and supervisor, and neuropsychologist. Specializes in treating trauma incorporating mind-body and Buddhism-based interventions
Liron Gold Mark
Educational psychologist and supervisor. Specializes in trauma therapy
Evi Ziv
MSw, Israeli Center for Addictions (ICA); Psychotherapist and Lecturer, Dual Diagnosis Training Coordinator; Staff Member, Lev-Hasharon Medical Health Center Dual Diagnosis Ward
Dr. Hadas Zeevi Sella
Clinical psychologist. Supervisor in the field of trauma, cptsd, secondary traumatization, resilience and growth
Tamar Einy-Lehman
Music, voice and movement therapist, psychotherapist and group analyst. Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy graduate
Marlen Maor
Clinical psychologist and supervisor. Therapist, educator, and speaker on the topic of trauma therapy in Israel and around the world
Niv Agam
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
Clinical Advisory Board
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
Dr. Raz Gross
Medical Doctor and researcher. Psychiatrist and epidemiologist at . Sheba Tel-HaShomer Medical Centre. Researches cutting edge psychedelic therapy with PTSD patients
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
ד"ר ניצה נקש-אקסלרוד
פסיכיאטרית מומחית בטיפול בפוסט טראומה, מנהלת מרפאת דרור לטיפול ומחקר התנהגותי קוגניטיבי CBT, פסיכיאטרית בכירה במרכז השבים לחיים לטיפול בחטופים ובני משפחותיהם, במרכז הרפואי שיבא, תל השומר. חברה בוועדה לקווים מנחים לטיפול בפוסט טראומה של משרד הביטחון וחברה במועצה הלאומית לפוסט טראומה
Dr. Martin Auerbach
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
Scientific Advisory Board
Prof. Roee Admon
PhD, neuroscientist at the school of Psychology at the University of Haifa. Expert on the behavioral, psychological, physiological, endocrinological and neural measures of stress and trauma in healthy as well as psychopathological populations.
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.
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. 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. 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.