Our Team
SafeHeart’s therapists all have clinical certifications (psychologists, psychiatrists, and clinical social workers), with significant experience in the fields of trauma and a particular interest in psychedelics.
Board of Directors
Guy Simon
Board Member, Chairman of the Clinical Advisory Committee
M.A, M.S.W, PhD(c), Psychotherapist with expertise in trauma.
Prof. Roy Salomon
Board member, Head of Research
and data collection
PhD., Ms.c, Department of Psychology, Haifa University
Shiran Maor
Chairman of the Board of directors
and Fund-Raising
Management
Efrat Chudin
VP Acute therapeutic
interventions
Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Reut Plonsker
VP Acute therapeutic
interventions
Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Efrat Atun
CEO
Dr. Demian Halperin
Head of Psychiatric Support
MD, Board-certified psychiatrist and psychotherapist
Ori Schnitzer
Director of Communication and Development
Noa Refaeli
CEO
Yair Grynbaum
Emergency Interventions Manager
Ms.c, Mental health crisis specialist in “Magnus,”
Certified Open Dialogue facilitator, leader of harm reduction and peer support spaces.
Emergency Interventions Manager
Tal Zagursky
MA, Clinical psychologist in residency; harm reduction specialist
Dr.Sophie Joury
Psychiatrist
Ron Toledano
Groups and Retreats Coordinator
Igal Tartakovsky
Head of Support Groups
Mindfulness-based psychotherapist (ACT, Satya), Safe Shore Project Co-Founder.
Karina Dessau
Head of Holistic Treatments
Eclectic Psychotherapist,
Water Therapy Emotional Therapist WT
Daniela Fields
Survivor Support Community Manager
Community Social Worker
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Rotem Ben Shushan
Therapists Community Manager
Social Worker and Art Therapist
Daniela Elmaliah Jonsson
Therapists Community Manager
Social Worker
Lian Ruda
Survivor Support
Case Manager
Tamar Sadovski
Survivor Support
Case Manager
Alon Texler
Survivor Support
Case Manager
Naama Yitzhak
Finance Manager
Danny Kinreich
Survivors' Families
Project Leader
Sitar Kires
Survivor Support
Case Manager
Shira Elmkies
Administrative Coordinator
Training Team
Dr. Tal Shany-Ur
Supervisor
Rehabilitation psychologist and supervisor, and neuropsychologist. Specializes in treating trauma incorporating mind-body and Buddhism-based interventions
Dr. Ayelet Cohen Vidr
Supervisor
Clinical psychologist. Background in psychedelic psychotherapy, facilitator of mind-body group therapy
Dr. Hadas Zeevi Sella
Supervisor
Clinical psychologist. Supervisor in the field of trauma, cptsd, secondary traumatization, resilience and growth
Dr. Avital Dimant Litvin
Supervisor
Clinical psychologist and supervisor. Psychodynamic therapist, specializes in trauma and loss
Marlen Maor
Supervisor
Clinical psychologist and supervisor. Therapist, educator, and speaker on the topic of trauma therapy in Israel and around the world
Tamar Einy-Lehman
Supervisor
Music, voice and movement therapist, psychotherapist and group analyst. Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy graduate
Clinical psychologist and supervisor. Psychodynamic therapist, specializes in trauma and loss
Niv Agam
Supervisor
Clinical psychologist & supervisor; Meditation instructor; Founder & Chair of NGO "Dreamers Home;" Head psychologist at day care unit of Be'er Sheva Mental Health Center; MAPS certificate
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Evi Ziv
Supervisor
MSw
Israeli Center for Addictions (ICA); Psychotherapist and Lecturer, Dual Diagnosis Training Coordinator; Staff Member, Lev-Hasharon Medical Health Center Dual Diagnosis Ward
Clinical Advisory Board
The national clinical director of Amcha, a senior expert psychiatrist and psychotherapist, with over 30 years of experience especially in community psychiatry. Has special expertise in the treatment of acute and chronic trauma
Prof. Zahava Solomon
Israel Prize laureate, researcher in the field of psychiatric epidemiology, mental health and social work. She served as the head of a research branch in the mental health department in the IDF, at the rank of lieutenant colonel
Prof. Shaul Lev-Ran
Psychiatrist, specialist in addiction treatment
Co-founder and academic director, the Israeli Center for Addictions
Researches mental effects of psychoactive substances
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Dr. Raz Gross
Medical Doctor and researcher. Psychiatrist and epidemiologist at . Sheba Tel-HaShomer Medical Centre. Researches cutting edge psychedelic therapy with PTSD patients
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Dr. Nitza Nakash-Axelrod
Psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of PTSD and director of the Dror Clinic for CBT cognitive behavioral therapy and research
Scientific Advisory Board
Prof HGJM Eric Vermetten
MD, PhD, clinical psychiatrist at the Department Psychiatry at Leiden UMC& Adjunct Professorsh at the Department Psychiatry of New York UMC. He is an expert in biological-based interventions in psychotraumatology MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine and medical cannabis.
Prof Yael Niv
PhD, neuroscientist who studies human and animal reinforcement learning and decision making. She is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University and the co-director of the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Neuropsychiatry (CCNP). She is an expert in computational psychiatry using computational models of learning and decision making to understand mental health conditions
Prof Roee Admon
PhD, neuroscientist at the school of Psychology at the University of Haifa.
an expert on the behavioral,psychological, physiological, endocrinological and neural measures of stress and trauma in healthy as well as psychopathological populations.
Prof Mario Mikulincer
PhD, Professor of Psychology at Reichmann University. He is a renowned expert in emotional regulation, post-traumatic processes, and coping with stress
Prof Olivia Carter
PhD. cognitive neuroscientist at the school of psychology, University of Melbourne. She was Executive Director of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness and the president to the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Prof. Carter is an expert in consciousness research and specifically in the field of psychedelics.