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Meet Dr. Avi Miodownik, a licensed clinical psychologist dedicated to helping individuals and couples navigate anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, trauma, and major life transitions with compassion and evidence based care.

For over two years, many of us have been operating in survival mode—carrying the heavy, exhausting weight of collective trauma and a form of "ambiguous grief" that has kept our nervous systems working overtime.

Healing from difficult experiences requires a practitioner who understands the deep connection between our past and our present. Today, we are proud to spotlight Laura Schneebaum, LMHC-D, LPC, NCC, a trauma-informed and relational therapist dedicated to supporting women across New York and New Jersey.

Writing on Instagram about the intersection of trauma, identity, and clinical ethics, our colleague, Miri Bar-Halpern, challenges professional organizations to move away from ideological conformity and return to real, nuanced dialogue.

When your nervous system feels overwhelmed, it is not a sign of weakness. It is your body asking for safety, connection, and support.

Join Gesher Community Care on June 16 @ 7pm EST for an experiential workshop with Briana Damavandi, LCSW, focused on somatic and EMDR-inspired tools for trauma clinicians navigating chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma.

Navigating difficult conversations with children and loved ones can feel impossible when we are still processing our own uncertainty. When the world feels messy and scary, the pressure to provide perfect answers often outweighs our capacity to find them, but healing doesn’t require us to have all the solutions.

There is a specific kind of pain that occurs not from the event itself, but from the silence or skepticism that follows it. In clinical terms, we call this Traumatic Invalidation.

For many Jewish individuals, identity is not separate from mental health. Culture, tradition, family, and community shape how we process stress, trauma, resilience, and hope.

In a powerful piece for The Times of Israel, Dr. Boaz Shalgi, Chief Psychologist at NATAL, introduces the concept of “rolling trauma” — the ongoing, cumulative mental health impact of the Iran war, October 7, and the continued missile strikes on Israeli communities. Unlike a single traumatic event, rolling trauma is a snowball of repeated crises, creating long-term challenges not only for survivors but for the therapists and support teams who care for them.