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Ziporah Tokayer, Psy.D

Jewish Spiritual Counseling Through Torah

Happiness, fulfillment, success in relationships, professional aspirations, religious and spiritual growth - these are what we strive for in our lives. These goals can seem elusive. The struggle of living every day life makes it hard to find the time to focus on goals and what is needed to make them a reality. Difficult life experiences such as traumatic events or destructive relationships, past or present, can produce significant emotional pain and scars that can also prevent people from achieving their goals. People struggle mightily against these forces but frequently, do not have the tools, the language, or the place to confront these challenges in a meaningful way.

Traditional psychotherapy attempts to heal the individual through insight, behavioral change or encouraging healthy thinking. Jewish psychotherapy adds G-d to the equation. One core belief of Jewish healing is a belief that G-d has a constant, dynamic and ongoing relationship with man. G-d is always helping us, sustaining us, and giving us what we need. At the same time, since G-d created us and is omnipresent in a personal way, we can gain access to a personal relationship with G-d, by listening closely to our gut feelings, our true selves. Frequently, the true self is blocked. The goal of Jewish psychotherapy is to clear away the emotional blocks to our true self so that we can 'hear' G-d. This then allows us to move towards what G-d wants for us in all areas of life - relational, professional, religious and physical. Fulfilling His Will for us essentially allows us to actualize our true potential, which leads to true happiness, fulfillment and success. I use traditional psychotherapy tools in addition to intuition to help clear away emotional blocks so that the true self can be actualized.

Dr Tokayer sees adults, children and adolecsents.

Office Information

Dr Tokayer's office is located in Brooklyn NY.