Bi National School of Psychotherapy

17/12/2025

16/11/2025

Hadassah Medical Organization, in collaboration with Medabrim Yahad, is launching a new short course in child–parent therapy designed for Palestinian and Israeli mental health professionals. The program aims to strengthen clinical competencies for practitioners who provide psychological care to children and their caregivers, particularly in contexts affected by stress, trauma, and ongoing instability.

The course offers an integrative therapeutic framework, combining theoretical input, practical tools, and guided clinical reflection. Participants will engage in focused training modules led by senior clinicians with extensive experience in child mental health and parent–child interventions. The learning structure emphasizes joint professional development, dialogue, and shared learning across communities.

All scheduling details, including training dates, supervision sessions, and admission information, can be found in the posted flyer.

31/07/2025

The Sandplay Therapy training course, which began in May 2025, is a groundbreaking, year-long program organized by the Bi-National School of Psychotherapy, designed to bring together Palestinian and Israeli mental health professionals in a shared journey of learning, healing, and dialogue. This intensive training offers a rare and meaningful opportunity to engage deeply with Sandplay Therapy, a Jungian-based therapeutic method that uses miniature figures and sand to give expression to inner worlds beyond words. Through a combination of theoretical seminars, clinical supervision, and hands-on experiential workshops, participants are developing skills to support profound psychological healing in both children and adults. The program not only builds professional capacity, but also creates a unique space for cross-cultural connection, trust, and mutual recognition in a region marked by division. We are proud to have the support and collaboration of the Sandplay Therapy Association in Israel, whose contribution has been vital in shaping the depth and quality of this training. As the course continues over the coming year, we look forward to sharing moments from this powerful experience and to opening doors for future cycles of participation.

08/01/2025

The Bi National School of Psychotherapy launched a new one-year training program in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) in cooperation with EMDR 4 PEACE, a non-profitable NGO. Both organizations are committed to help heal and ease Israeli-Palestinian trauma using different tools such as EMDR, in order to reduce violence and encourage reconciliation and peace. Funded by USAID/West Bank and Gaza, this program advances the Middle East Partnership for Peace Act (MEPPA) and peace funds objectives by promoting greater understanding, mutual trust and cooperation among conflicting communities. The aim is to bring recovery, rehabilitation and post-traumatic growth among populations affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the use of EMDR therapy, and to train therapists as agents of change.
The first day of training was attended by 27 Palestinian and Jewish Israeli therapists, drawn from Gaza, West Bank, East Jerusalem and Israel. These therapists, Jews and Arabs, learn together and treat people in their communities, they pass on the post-traumatic growth, so that healing and reconciliation echoes out into the broader communities.
The EMDR training is provided in accordance with training standards used in Europe, Asia, the United States, Africa and the Middle East. They are intensive two-part group trainings, each lasting several days, followed by small group supervisions over a period of two years, leading to accreditation by the national EMDR Association.

04/12/2024

Training Announcement:- Application of Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) for collective trauma.

The model of Medabrim Beyahad is an accelerated application of CPP to conditions of war, natural disasters, trauma in childcare, and other situations where entire communities were affected by traumatic events.
This dyadic, attachment-based, trauma-focused, and short-term intervention is focused on directly addressing the trauma and the attachment rupture caused by it. The therapist helps the parent assist their child in regulating overwhelming emotions, understanding the adaptive logic of the child's symptoms, and coping with them from an acceptable position. The therapist is directive and leading, working with the parent as a team to promote the child's mental health.
More details in the shown leaflet

This program is funded by USAID/WBG.
Contribution fees are 1000 ILS only.

For Registration, please use this link:-
https://forms.gle/nAjuCg5hfkbSHnLe9

Please send your CV and a copy of your ID to
[email protected]

Since 2016, The Bi National School of Psychotherapy is bringing together Palestinian and Israeli mental health professionals to heal future generations.
The program is founded by Dr. Esti Galili-Weisstub , Dr. Itamar Lurie and Dr. Shafiq Masalha.