Michal is a clinical psychologist and senior supervising psychologist, who serves as a lecturer and instructor in the psychotherapy training program of the Israeli Association for Self-Psychology and Subjective Research. For the last two decades, she has been teaching and training professionals to treat victims of war trauma, terrorism, and sexual violence. With Shlomo Oman, she co-founded the project for training Ukrainian therapists in the treatment of war trauma. In recent years, Michal and Einat Harf-Kashdai have been teaching and guiding teams of professionals in the treatment of people who have experienced or are experiencing extreme life events.
In the reserve service during the war, she serves as a mental health officer, head of clinical services in the LIBA unit, which provides psychological support to officers and soldiers after exceptional combat events.
She previously worked as a clinical psychologist instructor in the student counseling services of Bar-Ilan University, as well as the clinical director of the Post-Trauma Clinic at Schneider Children’s Hospital, and was a partner and Supervisor in Professor Eva Gilboa Shechtman’s team that developed the protocol for the treatment of “prolonged exposure” (PE) in children and teenagers. Following the Second Lebanon War, she joined the Resilience and Recovery Project as a supervisor, where she trained dozens of therapists in northern Israel to treat patients with the PE method.
Michal has also developed the “Unifying Therapy” method, an integrative therapeutic model that unites self-psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and has trained therapists in Israel and around the world in the application of this therapy for disorders related to trauma and loss (such as PTSD, anxiety and regulation disorders, OCD, and grief processing). Michal has published a number of professional articles and, together with Prof. Eva Gilboa-Shechtman and other co-authors, wrote a book on the self-care of social anxiety.
