Judy Belsky, PhD Clinical Psychologist Private Practice Clinical Supervisor Lman Achai, Ramat Bet Shemesh |
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Judy Belsky, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Jerusalem and Ramat Bet Shemesh, She is clinical supervisor of the psychotherapy unit of Lmaan Achai in Ramat Bet Shemesh. She trains therapist in her areas of specialty, hypnosis, stress management, parenting and marriage. She has presented seminars in schools, private industry and hospital settings in the U.S. She is facilitator of MASK Jerusalem, a support group for parents of kids at risk. She has lectured on kids at risk at
(see Dr Belsky's articles) NEFESH and Retorno. She describes her work this way: I am interested in entering the client's world. I pay special attention to their language, how they envision their lives and relationships, their history and problems. I am interested in the use of imagery and use it as a tool in helping the client recover. Both from physical illness, stress, and psychological trauma.
Judy Belsky is the author of a memoir Thread of Blue originally published in 1992 and in second edition in March 2003.Thread of Blue is the account of the loss of her son at the age of sixteen. In the new edition., Dr. Belsky reaches out to readers who have experienced loss and brings them into the personal journey of her loss and recovery. Thread of Blue is a profoundly moving book written from the heart of a believing Jew. Thread of Blue is available from Targum and in the US by calling 206 7220598. Dr. Belsky teaches creative writing at Ateret Bnot Yerushalayim Seminary in Jerusalem where her husband Rabbi Hillel Belsky is dean. She has edited and published five volumes of student writing entitled "Weaving Words, Weaving Worlds". In Israel these may be purchased by calling 02 5663288 and in the US by calling 206 7220598. The price is $5.00 per volume. Dr.Belsky teaches a course in the art of memoir at Jewishwriting.com, an internet writing program for Jewish women. More About the Literary Works of Judy Belsky: Abraham and Sultana is a book of poetry (not yet published) which chronicles the immigration of her grandparents from Turkey to the US in the 1920's. A section of the manuscript won the 1988 Rachel . .Castelete Prize in Literature (IVRI-NASAWI) Since the completion of this book, she has begun a prose memoir on her family history, growing up in the Sephardic community in Seattle, Washington. She reflects on what inspired this writing in the essay How To Write A Memoir. In the essay she relates how profoundly her grandparents' lives affected hers. How she sees them as heroes, who had the inner strength to combat the prevailing shame and dissipation to religious values during the great migration to America. She uses them to cut through the stale history of American Jewish literature in which Orthodox characters are silly, marginal or dying. How can they be dead? She asserts. They live in me. They provided the lens through which I know G-d. Through which I discover myself.
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