A Lifetime's Perspective with Dr. Yisrael Levitz
With Dr. Zev Ganz and Dr. Yisrael Levitz
Join Dr. Zev Ganz and Dr. Yisrael Levitz in the first episode of “The Couch in Jerusalem”.
About The Speakers
Dr. Zev Ganz
Dr. Zev Ganz earned a master’s degree from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work of Yeshiva University and a doctoral degree from Smith College School for Social Work. He completed postgraduate training in Individual and Family therapy at The Family Institute of Neve Yerushalayim with a focus on working with young children and their families as well as the treatment of child sexual abuse. He is a certified practitioner of the attachment- based model Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), and has lectured and published widely on the topic of attachment and families. Zev currently serves as Rosh Tzevet of the Lamerchav/Kav L’noar mental health clinic in Ramat Beit Shemesh, is a clinical supervisor at The Family Institute of Neve Yerushalayim, a lecturer at Machon Shiluv, and maintains a private practice in Ramat Beit Shemesh and Jerusalem.
Dr. Yisrael Levitz
Dr. Yisrael Levitz is the founding dean of The Family Institute of Neve Yerushalayim.
He is a clinical psychologist, ordained rabbi, and Professor Emeritus of Yeshiva
University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work, where he held the distinguished Bennett
Chair in Pastoral Psychology and headed the school’s Psychopathology and Human
Behavior departments. Prior to making Aliya in 1998, he was a practicing psychologist
for over three decades and served as the first Dean of Students of both Yeshiva and
Stern College.Dr. Levitz was appointed the Director of Supplementary Rabbinic training for the
Wexner Program at Yeshiva University’s rabbinic seminary, where he pioneered the
field of Rabbinic Counseling, and published a book with Dr. Abraham Twerski z”l
entitled A Practical Guide to Rabbinic Counseling (Feldheim Publishing).
He continues to teach smicha students at Yeshiva’s Gruss Kollel in Jerusalem,
conducts an advanced training program in Experiential Couples Therapy, supervises
therapists, and teaches Couples therapy at the Family Institute.Dr. Levitz is a Board Certified Diplomate in Marriage and Family Therapy, a Fellow of
the Academy of Family Psychology, a member of the Israel Association of Couple and Family Therapy, and a noted lecturer on a wide variety of psychological and Judaic
topics. He has recently completed a two volume memoir entitled “Generations” which was translated into Hebrew under the title Lapid Hanetzach.