For the therapist

As therapists and mental health professionals we appreciate the necessity of providing ourselves with various kinds of support and ways of understanding and providing our own community and others with ways of identifying and coping with the trauma that we are exposed to in our work as well as that of our private lives.

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Therapists enjoy learning from Marianne, a most exceptional expert in her field from Denmark at Seminar Efal..

World renowned body psychotherapist, theoretician and one of the founders of the Bodynamics Institute in Denmark, Marianne Bentzen came to Israel for the first time to share with therapists profound and new understandings as we hope to cope with the ramifications of trauma amongst the young and amongst those who were traumatized as youngsters.

  • Coping with vicarious trauma using body oriented psychotherapy with the social workers of the Center for Prevention of Domestic Violence in Beersheva was the topic of a two day seminar. 2
  • Guidance Counselors prepare for the school year in the Southern Region: In conjunction with the Integrative School of Yoga we held a day of lectures and workshops- The Resources of the Body as Tools for Balance and Empowerment
  • Coordinators for Volunteer Services of the Welfare Department in the South enjoy being exposed to the opportunity to deal with the stress of their work and to explore the chance to cope with the vicarious trauma that their job entails. The Beersheva coordinator hosted this meeting of social workers from the south.
  • The Senior Staff of the Welfare Branch of the Beersheva Municipality delight in the chance to touch trauma and stress without feeling the overwhelm of their work.
  • C&L has conducts workshop- Me~Myself ~My Body~ My Fortress-Coping with Secondary Trauma for workers of the National Institute of Social Services workshops to prevent and lessen vicarious trauma
  • C&L conducts workshops with social workers and mental health workers in the Child Parent Center in Sderot and in Machon Shachar in Ashkelon. The aim of these workshops was to learn to identify and to begin to cope with the secondary trauma of working with the ramification of the disengagement from Gaza and the effects of the Kassam rockets.