Our Team
As a senior clinician, Dr. Markson facilitates group supervision and ongoing consultations for JTC. He brings vast understanding and field experience from his private practice and background working with mental health organizations.
Sarri is a staff therapist and supervisor with over 20 years of experience supporting adolescents and adults through life transitions. An attachment-oriented clinician trained in CBT and family therapy, she takes an integrative, evidence-based approach that helps clients cultivate increased resilience, self-awareness and emotional well-being. She also serves as a field advisor for Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work.
Max, an EMDR trained therapist, provides seasoned experience working with young adults and family units. He has developed and presented multiple training programs on the topics of domestic violence and sexual abuse for clergy and community education programs. In addition to his role as a staff therapist, Max provides clinical supervision to advanced social work students training in JTC.
Avigail is an attachment-oriented psychotherapist experienced working with individuals, couples, and children. Trained in EFT, somatic therapy, and trauma work, she offers a warm, integrative approach that supports clients in building healthier relationships, with themselves and with others.
As a staff therapist at JTC, Ayelet brings unique experience working with the geriatric population, as well as within the revacha (Department of Social Services). In addition to her clinical role at JTC, Ayelet also works as a gap-year student guidance counselor.
Dr. Aaron Bloch prioritizes making patients feel heard and cared for, combining psychiatry with cognitive, behavioral, and mindfulness-based therapies. Board-certified and trained at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, he specializes in treatment-resistant depression, geriatric psychiatry, and sensitive patients. He values each patient’s unique experiences, helping adults of all ages achieve recovery, personal growth, and a meaningful life.
Dr. Nosson Westreich teaches JTC students and post-grad fellows, bringing 25+ years’ experience as a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and educator. He has served as the Director of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Adolescent Inpatient Unit and is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Since making Aliyah, he works at the Young Adult Clinic at Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem, where he also trains psychiatry residents. In private practice, Dr. Westreich works with young adults, adults, couples, and families, and is known for his thoughtful, evidence-based, and empathic clinical approach.
JTC is proud to host advanced students from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Every year, a select group of second-year students are chosen to complete their Master’s level clinical fieldwork. Beyond being selected as gifted future clinicians, the students are provided with multi-layered supervision and training, in both individual and group settings.
The Jerusalem Therapy Center is invested in providing advanced professional development to the broader mental health community. The Jerusalem Therapy Center selects an elite cohort of post-grad Fellows for intensive training and comprehensive supervision while working with JTC clients and facilitating therapy groups.
JTC was born of a shared vision between Dr. Nechama Munk, director of Wurzweiler’s MSW program in Israel, and Yosi Golberstein, director of Amudim Israel. United by a commitment to clinical excellence and uncompromising professional standards, they partnered to create a center that reflects the values and strengths of both organizations.