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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

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Guy Simon

Board Member, Chairman of the Clinical Advisory Committee

M.A, M.S.W, PhD(c), Psychotherapist with expertise in trauma. ​

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Prof. Roy Salomon

Board member, Head of Research
and data collection

PhD., Ms.c, Department of Psychology, Haifa University

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Shiran Maor

Chairman of the Board of directors
and Fund-Raising 

Management

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Dr. Demian Halperin

Head of Psychiatric Support

MD, Board-certified psychiatrist and psychotherapist

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Reut Plonsker

VP Acute therapeutic
interventions

MA, Clinical psychologist

Efrat Atun

Efrat Atun

CEO

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Karina Dessau

Head of Holistic Treatments

Mindfulness-based psychotherapist
trained in the Hakomi method,
Emotional water therapist WT

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Emergency Interventions Manager

Tal Zagursky

MA, Clinical psychologist in residency; harm reduction specialist

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Yair Grynbaum

Emergency Interventions Manager

Ms.c, Mental health crisis specialist in “Magnus,”

Certified Open Dialogue facilitator, leader of harm reduction and peer support spaces.

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Oded Zarzevsky

Survivor Support Community Manager

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Danny Kinreich

Survivors' Families

Project Leader

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Igal Tartakovsky

Head of Support Groups

Mindfulness-based psychotherapist (ACT, Satya), Safe Shore Project Co-Founder.

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Dr. Sophie Joury

Psychiatrist

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Noa Refaeli

COO

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Daniela Elmaliah Jonsson

Therapists Community Manager

Social Worker

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Sitar Kires

Survivor Support

Case Manager

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Tamar Sadovski

Survivor Support

Case Manager

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Alon Texler

Survivor Support

Case Manager

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Sam Rush Soclof

Operations Manager

Operations Manager

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Naama Yitzhak

Finance Manager

Training Team

Tal Shani-Ur

Dr. Tal Shany-Ur

Supervisor

Rehabilitation psychologist and supervisor, and neuropsychologist.  Specializes in treating trauma incorporating mind-body and Buddhism-based interventions

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Dr. Ayelet Cohen Vidr

Supervisor

Clinical psychologist. Background in psychedelic psychotherapy, facilitator of mind-body group therapy

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Dr. Hadas Zeevi Sella

Supervisor

Clinical psychologist.   Supervisor in the field of trauma, cptsd, secondary traumatization, resilience and growth

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Dr. Avital Dimant Litvin

Supervisor

Clinical psychologist and supervisor. Psychodynamic therapist, specializes in trauma and loss

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Marlen Maor

Supervisor

Clinical psychologist and supervisor. Therapist, educator, and speaker on the topic of trauma therapy in Israel and around the world

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Tamar Einy-Lehman

Supervisor

Music, voice and movement therapist, psychotherapist and group analyst. Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy graduate

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Clinical psychologist and supervisor. Psychodynamic therapist, specializes in trauma and loss

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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

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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

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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

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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. Raz Gross

 Medical Doctor and researcher. Psychiatrist and epidemiologist at . Sheba Tel-HaShomer Medical Centre. Researches cutting edge psychedelic therapy with PTSD patients

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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

Scientific Advisory Board

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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. 

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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

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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.

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 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 

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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. 

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