Dear America: Thank You for Having Us Growing up, one of the central messages I absorbed from both my home and school was the importance...

“What's the biggest struggle you see in couples today?” This is one of the most common questions couples therapists hear, and there’s...

When I was a kid, there was this mean teasing game kids played on each other, by simply repeating everything one person said. I haven't...

What do you say when there’s nothing to say? The email request from the editor to write about the only thing on most of our minds came in...

What a jarring wake up call. Last week, I was reading the book “No Bad Parts” by Dr. Richard Schwartz. I chose it intentionally for this...

Trigger warning: this post will be more explicit than usual. (It's excerpted from one of the schmoozeletter emails) Often, when working...

Dear Elisheva, Every year around this time I struggle with the idea of asking and granting what feels like lip-service forgiveness. As...

Parented by G-d, and Parenting G-d’s Children One of the most challenging, if unoriginal, theological struggles for me personally has...

“We wish we had died! We wish we had died!” Cry out the people who personally experienced miraculous salvation. “If only we had died in...

The yomim tovim / Jewish holidays are often “busy season” for Orthodox therapists. In our communities, where there’s a profound emphasis...

*This was originally a column in the Five Towns Jewish Times* Dear Elisheva, My problem comes up mostly around Shabbos and Yom Tov family...

*This was originally a column in the Five Towns Jewish Times* Dear Elisheva, My wife and I have been married for almost three years, and...

Trigger Warning: This post deals with explicit and psychologically raw topics. The Talmud (Sanhedrin 74b)questions how Queen Esther could...

Originally published: Feb 2017 Leah [pseudonym] is a 21 year old assistant preschool teacher in a beis yaakov school and part time...

You know that feeling of scary relief? Like when you very narrowly miss being in what could have been a terrible car accident? Or almost fall down a flight of stairs, but catch yourself at the last minute? Or you wake up from a nightmare, and dramatically exhale when you realize it’s not real? It’s an interesting phenomenon, this particular form of gratitude. On the one hand- you’re so happy about what didn’t happen. And also, a little freaked out about what almost did. And/

Chani was 20 years old when she presented for therapy. The official referral was “anxiety about dating,” but when she began to share, it...

Recently, I tweeted the following: "Please don’t tell people that if they pray hard enough, they’ll get what they want. And please,...

When families get together in clans, for holidays, celebrations, or other occasions, sometimes interactions that are well-meaning can...

*This post was originally published as a column in the Five Towns Jewish Times.* Dear Elisheva, My problem is on a low simmer most of...

*This essay was written five years ago* Will the two-dimensional cardboard and plastic “glasses” we borrowed from our friends really be...