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The 9 Best English-Speaking Therapy Centres in Israel (2026)

Updated October 2026 · 9 picks

To find an English-speaking therapist in Israel, start with Get Help Israel or TherapyRoute to search by city and specialty, or go directly to a practice built for English speakers: The Place and Machon Dvir in Jerusalem, The Clinic at Therapy Tel Aviv in Tel Aviv, and Metiv or NATAL for trauma. Nine services, below. This is a directory of providers, not medical advice.

1. Get Help Israel — Nationwide

The most practical starting point — a vetted directory of English-speaking mental health professionals you can filter by city and specialty.

Specialty Vetted directory of English-speaking mental health professionalsLanguages EnglishBest for Anyone searching for an English-speaking clinician anywhere in Israel

Get Help Israel exists to solve exactly the problem most English speakers in Israel have: there are good therapists, and no obvious way to find the one who takes your issue, in your language, near you. It lists verified mental health specialists and lets you filter by profession, speciality and location.

The filtering is the value. You can narrow to a particular presenting issue — trauma, adjustment, ADHD, couples, eating disorders — rather than reading forty profiles hoping one mentions it, and the listings cover psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and psychotherapists rather than one discipline.

Treat it as a shortlist generator rather than a recommendation: the next step is always a first conversation with two or three people, which most clinicians will do briefly and without charge.

Good to know: Shortlist three, speak to all three, then choose. Fit is the variable that actually predicts whether therapy works.

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2. The Place: Jerusalem Centre for Emotional Wellbeing — Jerusalem

Jerusalem's main English-language therapy centre, built around the English-speaking community rather than adapted for it.

Specialty Individual, couples, child and family therapy; community programmesLanguages English · HebrewBest for English speakers in Jerusalem, olim, families

The Place describes itself as the point where therapists, individuals and the community connect, and it functions as Jerusalem's central English-language mental health address: a multi-clinician centre offering therapy to individuals, couples, children and families.

For olim, the advantage over finding a private therapist cold is organisational. There is an intake process that matches you to a clinician rather than leaving you to guess, there is more than one person on the premises if the first match is wrong, and the centre carries a range of specialities.

It also works with the community side — groups, workshops and training — which in a city where much of the English-speaking population arrived recently makes it a point of continuity rather than just a clinic.

Good to know: Ask for the intake conversation and be specific about what you want help with — matching is the thing a centre can do that a solo practitioner cannot.

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3. Machon Dvir — Jerusalem

A Jerusalem psychotherapy institute that both trains English-speaking therapists and treats clients.

Specialty Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, training and supervisionLanguages English · HebrewBest for Adults seeking long-term depth therapy, clinicians seeking training

Machon Dvir is a Jerusalem institute working in psychotherapy and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, with a training arm alongside its clinical work. That combination matters: institutes that teach tend to hold their clinical standards higher than practices that only treat, because the supervision structure is already in place.

For English speakers it is one of the few places in Jerusalem offering depth-oriented, long-term psychotherapy in English, as distinct from the shorter protocol-based treatments that dominate the subsidised system.

It suits people who want open-ended analytic work rather than a fixed number of CBT sessions, and who are prepared for the commitment that implies.

Good to know: Trainee clinicians working under supervision are usually available at a lower fee. For many people that is better value than a shorter course with a senior therapist.

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4. The Clinic at Therapy Tel Aviv — Central Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv's established English-language group practice, with several modalities in one place.

Specialty CBT, art therapy, holistic and body-oriented therapiesLanguages English · HebrewBest for English speakers in Tel Aviv, adults, couples

The Clinic at Therapy Tel Aviv is a group practice with locations in central Tel Aviv, offering English-language sessions across a team of practitioners rather than through one clinician's diary.

The practitioners cover a spread of approaches — CBT, art therapy and body-oriented and holistic modalities among them — which is genuinely useful if you are not sure what kind of therapy you want, or if what you tried before did not work.

Central Tel Aviv locations make it practical for people working in the city, and a group practice can usually offer a first appointment considerably sooner than a sought-after individual therapist.

Good to know: If a previous course of talking therapy did not help, a group practice lets you switch modality without starting the search from scratch.

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5. Metiv: The Israel Psychotrauma Centre — Jerusalem

The country's leading clinical trauma centre, attached to Herzog Medical Center.

Specialty Post-traumatic stress, acute trauma, resilience training, clinician trainingLanguages Hebrew · EnglishBest for Trauma survivors, bereaved families, reservists, first responders

Metiv, the Israel Psychotrauma Centre, is part of Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem and is one of the two institutions in Israel that define clinical practice in trauma. It treats, it trains other clinicians, and it works at the community and national level after mass events.

It is the right address for post-traumatic stress rather than general anxiety or low mood — treatment after terror, war, reserve service, bereavement, accident or assault — and for the specialist protocols that work for it.

Because it is hospital-affiliated, referral routes through the kupot holim exist, which can make treatment here considerably cheaper than the private equivalent. Ask about that explicitly.

Good to know: Ask about a referral through your kupat holim before you go private — hospital-affiliated trauma treatment is often covered.

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6. NATAL: Israel Trauma and Resiliency Centre — Tel Aviv

The national trauma organisation, with a helpline, clinical treatment and community outreach.

Specialty War and terror-related trauma, helpline, clinical treatment, family supportLanguages Hebrew · English · Arabic · RussianBest for Trauma survivors and their families, reservists, bereaved relatives

NATAL has worked on trauma related to war and terror in Israel since the 1990s, running clinical treatment alongside a national helpline, home-visit teams, group work and community programmes. It is independent of the hospital system, which gives it reach the clinics do not have.

The helpline is the part most people need first — a way to speak to someone trained the same day, without a referral, a waiting list or a diagnosis — and it routes to treatment where treatment is needed.

Its services extend to families of those affected rather than only the directly injured, which in practice is where a great deal of unaddressed trauma sits.

Good to know: The helpline exists precisely so you do not need to know whether what you are feeling 'counts'. Use it before trying to work that out alone.

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7. Crossroads Jerusalem — Jerusalem

The specialist service for English-speaking teenagers in trouble, which almost nothing else in Israel covers.

Specialty At-risk English-speaking teenagers and young adults, drop-in and counsellingLanguages English · HebrewBest for Anglo teenagers in Jerusalem, their parents, young adults

Crossroads works with English-speaking teenagers and young adults in Jerusalem — a population that falls between every other service, because the Israeli youth system runs in Hebrew and the teenager in question often does not, or will not.

It combines a drop-in centre with counselling, outreach and case work, dealing with the things that actually bring adolescents in: substance use, dropping out, family breakdown, isolation after aliyah, risk-taking.

For parents of a struggling Anglo teenager in Israel it is usually the first call rather than the last, and it is the one organisation on this list whose clients mostly arrive without their parents.

Good to know: Parents can call for guidance before and without their child's involvement. That conversation is often where this starts.

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8. ERAN Emotional First Aid — Nationwide helpline

The national emotional first aid line — free, anonymous, round the clock, with an English service.

Specialty Free anonymous emotional first aid helpline and online chat, 24 hoursLanguages Hebrew · English · Arabic · RussianBest for Anyone in distress, in Hebrew, English, Arabic and Russian

ERAN has run Israel's emotional first aid service for decades: a free, anonymous, confidential helpline staffed by trained volunteers, available at any hour on 1201, with an English-language service alongside the Hebrew one.

It is not therapy and does not pretend to be. It is the thing to use at two in the morning, or on the day you realise you need to talk to someone but cannot face arranging it, or while you are waiting for a first appointment weeks away.

It also operates online and chat channels, which some people — and most teenagers — will use when they will not make a phone call.

Good to know: Call 1201 and ask for the English service. It is free, it is anonymous, and there is no threshold of seriousness you have to meet first.

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9. TherapyRoute Israel — Nationwide

An international directory with a usable Israel section, good for cross-checking a name and for smaller cities.

Specialty International therapist directory with per-city Israel listingsLanguages EnglishBest for People in smaller cities, anyone cross-checking a recommendation

TherapyRoute is an international therapist directory with an Israel section that can be browsed nationally or by city, and its listings state each practitioner's languages, approach and qualifications.

Its Israel coverage is smaller than the local alternative, so it is best used as a second source: a way to cross-check a clinician you were recommended, or to find someone in a city where the English-speaking options are thin on the ground.

As with every directory, the profiles are self-reported. Verify the licence rather than the profile.

Good to know: Use it alongside Get Help Israel rather than instead of it — between them the coverage gaps mostly close.

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Frequently asked questions

Why does this list name centres and directories rather than individual therapists?

Because ranking individual clinicians would be both unhelpful and wrong. Therapy outcomes depend on the fit between one person and one therapist, not on a league table, and a practice that is right for a bereaved parent is not right for a teenager with an eating disorder. What is genuinely rankable is the infrastructure: which organisations reliably have English-speaking, licensed clinicians, which vet them, and which cover which specialities.

Does Israeli health insurance cover therapy?

Partly. Each kupat holim (Clalit, Maccabi, Meuhedet, Leumit) provides subsidised mental health care through the public basket, and the supplementary plans add further subsidised sessions — but waiting lists are long and you have little say over who you see or which language they work in. Private therapy in Israel typically runs ₪300–₪600 a session, and some practices operate a sliding scale. Ask about both routes.

How do you check a therapist is actually licensed in Israel?

Israel licenses clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and some creative-arts therapists through the Ministry of Health, and the register is public. The titles are protected; 'therapist', 'coach' and 'counsellor' on their own are not. Ask for the licence number and the registered discipline, then verify it. A reputable practice will give it without hesitation.

Can you have therapy in Israel in English by video?

Yes, and it is now the normal arrangement for many olim — including with therapists in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv while you live somewhere with no English-speaking provision at all. Note the reverse case: if you are being treated by a clinician licensed abroad, that licence generally does not cover practising with you while you are resident in Israel, so check it.

Where do you go in a mental health crisis in Israel?

For an immediate emergency, 101 for Magen David Adom or the emergency room of any hospital. ERAN runs a national emotional first aid line — 1201 — with an English-language service, and NATAL runs a helpline for trauma and anxiety. These are not substitutes for emergency care, and nothing on this page is: if someone is at risk right now, go to a hospital.

Is therapy in Israel different from therapy abroad?

The clinical models are the same, and many Israeli clinicians trained in the United States, Britain or Europe. What differs is the context: a therapist here can be expected to understand aliyah, reserve duty, bereavement from terror and war, the particular strain of raising children in two languages, and the religious frameworks many clients live inside. For olim, that cultural fluency is often the whole reason to see someone local rather than keeping a therapist back home.

1. Get Help Israel — Nationwide

2. The Place: Jerusalem Centre for Emotional Wellbeing — Jerusalem

3. Machon Dvir — Jerusalem

4. The Clinic at Therapy Tel Aviv — Central Tel Aviv

5. Metiv: The Israel Psychotrauma Centre — Jerusalem

6. NATAL: Israel Trauma and Resiliency Centre — Tel Aviv

7. Crossroads Jerusalem — Jerusalem

8. ERAN Emotional First Aid — Nationwide helpline

9. TherapyRoute Israel — Nationwide

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