This originally appeared as a column in the Five Towns Jewish Times. Dear Elisheva, I can’t decide whether my problem is marital or...

A Game-Changing, Time-Saving Tip for Service Providers: I kept meaning to share this in a video, but lately I’ve lost my taste for making...

*This was originally in a schmoozeletter email* Today I was thinking I'll share an analogy I often give couples in therapy. Imagine that...

This post is an excerpt from the schmoozeletter of October, 2020. You can subscribe to these here: elishevaliss.com/newsletter Do you...

“I think it was the earrings that were the final straw for me.” The young woman is explaining to me how she went from being a...

Do you have weird feelings about money? A lot of people do. Contrary to popular belief, money is not inherently unspiritual. (Being...

This originally appeared as a column in the Five Towns Jewish Times: Dear Elisheva, I honestly never thought I would be writing a letter...

Adina’s eyes darted around my office, then closed and watered with unsuccessfully repressed shame. She was trying to explain the freshly...

This is a Dear Therapist column, which originally appeared in the Five Towns Jewish Times: Dear Elisheva, This time of year is always...

A local teacher once called me to talk about some frustrating feedback she had gotten at work. Apparently, a parent had called the...

Atara and Azriel are trying to plan a vacation. For the first time since they had kids, they have a chance to get away just the two of...

There's something I've learned in the course of both my work and my spiritual studies has made a profound difference in the way I view...

“Do you know what it’s like to live with someone for six years and not even once have them initiate physical intimacy?” he asks. “Well,...

How do you decide when to start a family? How many kids to have? When to stop having kids? Even if we knew exactly how many kids we hoped...

For anyone who is interested in the facts about the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict, here is a very summarized version, including some...

This post is adapted from my weekly schmoozeletter. When I was a kid, many of our religious teachers were first and second generation...

As part of the intake process with new clients, one of the questions I always ask is: "Have you ever been to therapy before?" I like to...

(This post is adapted from a special edition schmoozeletter.) Last week, I posted what seems to have been a polarizing opinion on social...

Were you taught to believe that “divorce” is a curse word? That we don’t even say the “d” word? When I was a young, idealistic grad...

This will be a short, but I believe, very important post: One of the many awful results of inadequate, misinformed, or nonexistent sex...