Working in Jewish spaces, whether as a clergy member, educator, nonprofit leader, fundraiser, artist, or community builder, can be deeply meaningful. It can also be emotionally exhausting in ways that are hard to explain to people outside the community.

Jewish professional life comes with a particular kind of responsibility, including the responsibilities to demonstrate care, educate, lead, inspire, to hold history, and hold identity. And you’re expected to do this while managing your own personal life, family, and your sense of self.

A lot of Jewish professionals feel:

• Overextended and under supported

• Emotionally responsible for everyone around them

• Stuck between tradition and change

• Weighed down by communal trauma and expectations

• Burned out but guilty about admitting it

• Isolated in leadership roles

• Quietly overwhelmed by the pace and pressure

But you keep going, because the work matters. But the cost of that can be high.

As a therapist who is deeply connected to Jewish identity and community, I understand the complexity you’re holding: from generational and communal dynamics, to the pressure to be both spiritual, practical, grounded and visionary, all at the same time. Therapy becomes a place where you don’t have to hold any of that alone.

It’s a space to talk about:

• Burnout that isn’t “fixable” with time off

• The emotional weight of pastoral or communal care

• Leadership stress and imposter syndrome

• The tension between personal identity and public role

• Anxiety and over-responsibility

• Spiritual fatigue

• Grief — personal, communal, and generational

• The pressure to be strong, articulate, and composed

• The impact of crises and emergencies

My style is relational, grounded, and respectful of the complexity of your world. I’m not here to offer platitudes or spiritual clichés. I’m here to help you have a space that belongs to you, not your community, board, or institution.