Eden Association’s Trauma Therapy Center opened in the heart of the Gaza border communities following the events of October 7, providing trauma-informed care for women and girls from the region. Located at Kibbutz Dorot, the center began receiving patients in April 2024.
The center draws on Eden Association’s many years of expertise in trauma care and its unique therapeutic approach, the Eden Model.
The center specializes in treating women and young women coping with post-traumatic stress disorder and complex PTSD. The Eden Model enables therapeutic interventions to be tailored to each patient’s needs and current stage of life, while providing practical skills and tools for emotional regulation, calming, and communication. Our goal is to create an individualized network of support for every patient.
The center’s therapists have recognized professional qualifications and the experience required to provide individual therapy, parent guidance, and therapeutic groups. In addition to their core clinical training, our therapists are trained in psychodynamic therapy, CBT, the Eden Model, sexual trauma therapy, EMDR, DBT, SE, and ACT.
The center offers individual and group treatments, including psychotherapy, bibliotherapy, art therapy, DBT skills training, and a wide range of holistic approaches that support recovery from trauma in both body and mind. The center works in partnership with all Israeli health funds, local authorities, and the National Insurance Institute through its rehabilitation services for victims of hostile acts.
The center’s work is accompanied by research and evaluation designed to provide evidence and insight into the personal and community processes experienced by women in the Gaza border region. This work will contribute to developing a body of knowledge on treating trauma and complex PTSD in Israel and around the world.
Individual Therapy
Group Therapy
DBT skills training, expressive arts therapy, yoga, and psychodrama.
Parent Guidance
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Our Team
Ronit Shoval (MSW) | CEO of Eden Association
Ronit is a clinical social worker specializing in complex PTSD and in issues related to both the normative and traumatic aspects of the lives of girls and women. She developed and founded the Eden Model for the treatment of girls and women and trains and teaches therapeutic teams and care professionals as part of her role.
Ronit has maintained a private practice for more than 25 years. She uses an integrative approach based on the Eden Model, which incorporates feminist therapy, DBT, motivational interviewing, and relational-intersubjective psychotherapy.
Yulia Goldring (MSW) | Director of Eden Trauma Therapy Center and Clinical Social Worker
Yulia specializes in treating acute stress and trauma, complex trauma, and mental health conditions. Her therapeutic approaches include CBT, ACT, mindfulness-based psychotherapy, and EMDR
Yael Levin Yaakobi (MA) | Arts Therapist
Yael is in the third year of her specialization in integrative psychotherapy and is trained in SE, DBT, and third-wave CBT. She treats women and young adults coping with trauma, PTSD, and complex trauma.
Her work includes the treatment of sexual trauma, conflict-related PTSD, and gender-related trauma, including traumatic childbirth, stillbirth, and pregnancy loss.
Yodfat Menachem (MSW) | Clinical Social Worker
Yodfat uses a psychodynamic approach that integrates a mind-body perspective with tools from DBT. She works with children and adolescents, provides parent guidance, and treats girls and women through the lens of the female life cycle.
She has experience treating PTSD and supporting people through life crises.
Miriam Shechter (MSW) | Clinical Social Worker
Miriam specializes in mental health and trauma therapy. Her therapeutic approaches include SEE FAR CBT, EMDR, and focusing-oriented therapy.
Mor Gutman (MSW) | Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist
Mor has extensive experience providing therapy and support during times of crisis. She specializes in trauma, grief, loss, and women’s health.
She uses an intersubjective psychodynamic approach and incorporates EMDR techniques into her work.
Emily Veze | Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist
Emily supports people through processes of healing, emotional regulation, and increased awareness in individual sessions and group workshops, using an attentive mind-body approach.
Her yoga therapy combines adapted movement, breathing, meditation, relaxation, and dialogue while exploring physical and inner experience. The process is grounded in deep listening and trust in the body’s natural ability to foster regulation, transformation, and healing from within.
Shiri Breier Ziv-Av (MA) | Licensed Clinical and Educational Psychologist
Shiri works with children, adolescents, and adults using an integrative approach that combines psychodynamic therapy with tools from CBT, DBT, and SE.
Yosef Nahum (MA) | Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Supervisor, and Therapist for Adolescents and Adults
Yosef offers individual therapy using an integrative approach that combines psychodynamic and focused therapeutic methods. He also provides group therapy and support for developing parenting skills.
He has many years of experience treating various forms of trauma and people coping with eating disorders.
Tal Tamim, Dipl. C.M. (I.A. TCM) | Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Practitioner
Tal treats women using an integrative approach that combines Chinese medicine, tools from SE, mind-body awareness, and relationship-based therapy.
She has experience supporting women coping with trauma and PTSD, stress, and life crises, as well as during pregnancy, childbirth, and periods of physical and emotional change.
Hanna Turjeman (MSW) | Clinical Social Worker
Hanna specializes in trauma, complex PTSD, addiction, and mental health. She treats at-risk adolescents and adult women and men using an integrative approach that combines psychodynamic therapy with tools from DBT and CBT.
Mor Shinarsky-Azuelos (MA) | Art Therapist Specializing in Bibliotherapy
Mor provides therapy to young women, women, and adults. She has experience working in mental health settings and supporting people through trauma and complex PTSD.
Her work combines individual therapy and the facilitation of therapeutic groups, incorporating bibliotherapeutic tools and approaches such as DBT and SE.