Rachel Weinstein, Clinical Social Worker

Rachel Weinstein, Clinical Social Worker I work with folks in one-on-one, group, & family settings experiencing transitions & change. My clients feel hopeful and supported by our work together.

They look forward to not only being heard, but leaving sessions with practical, relatable, and doable problem solving techniques. I value honesty, integrity, and meaningful connections both within and without clinical settings.

You can't "make" someone gay. In fact you can't make them anything they aren't because (newsflash) gayness, or straightn...
11/06/2026

You can't "make" someone gay. In fact you can't make them anything they aren't because (newsflash) gayness, or straightness for that matter, is not communicable, contagious, or catchy.

Pride isn't about turning people, promoting an agenda (most people don't have an agenda or the time to even create one), or "shoving it in people's faces."

Acknowledging the right to breathe and exist and love as a person who is L, G, B, T, Q or any other letter is powerful. When that power is used to communicate not just acceptance but respect for who they are no matter who they love, it can mean the difference between them seeing life as worth living- or not.

The easiest way to destroy a q***r kid or adult is by disregarding, disrespecting, humiliating, and denigrating them for who they are.

For the love of G-d and all that is holy, DON'T BE THAT PERSON.

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇱

Who your child is and to whom they are attracted is about them.You can't fail at being parent because your child loves o...
05/06/2026

Who your child is and to whom they are attracted is about them.

You can't fail at being parent because your child loves or wants to love someone different than who you thought they would.

Struggling is ok.
Having a hard time is ok.
Wrapping your head around it is ok.

Abandoning your child, telling them they're no longer your child, that they've destroyed your family, or failing to be there for them because of who they love?

Well that's just plain awful.
And cruel.
And mean.
And uncalled for.
And harmful, hurtful, and one of the least faith-based, G-dly behaviors I can think of.

Children of ALL AGES need the love, support, encouragement, kindness, and unconditional presence of their parents.

Our kids deserve the best of us.

Let's rise to that challenge and remember that
we're all created in G-d's image- straight, gay, and everything and everyone in between.

Shabbat shalom ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜

31/05/2026

What does "giving yourself grace" really mean?

Inspired by

26/05/2026

A note from me to you.
Real, honest, and with my oxygen mask on.

What are you seeking and what are you doing to find it?Every day.EVERYDAYWeGet ToChoose.Shabbat Shalom 💜
08/05/2026

What are you seeking and what are you doing to find it?

Every day.

EVERY
DAY

We
Get
To
Choose.

Shabbat Shalom 💜

It is amazing, in a painful kind of way, to discover just how many people hate. Hating other people is, generally speaki...
06/05/2026

It is amazing, in a painful kind of way, to discover just how many people hate.

Hating other people is, generally speaking, a bad thing, but I'm not talking about hatingf others. No, no- I'm talking about hating yourself.

I'm sure you can fill in the blanks:
I hate how tall/ short/ skinny/ fat/ curly haired/ straight haired/ sensitive/ rough around the edges/ white/ black/ gay/ straight/ nice/ mean/ ethnic/ "beige"/ smart/ dumb/ introverted/ extroverted/ friendly/ isolated... Oh, we could go on for days with this little exercise, right?

But what if we didn't? What if we stopped trying to hate ourselves into oblivion and started accepting who we are and actively working on the stuff that needs more upkeep, repair, attention?

What if we stopped thinking that we were impermeable to our own words and tried speaking to and about ourselves- even when no one else can hear- like we matter?

You can't hate yourself into being a better version of yourself.

You can try, but more self- hatred is the likliest outcome.

Life is wild and twisty and challenging and weird and MAAAAN so many things all at the same time.If you've ever spent ev...
04/05/2026

Life is wild and twisty and challenging and weird and MAAAAN so many things all at the same time.

If you've ever spent even a millisecond trying to claw your way out of moments of anxiety or sadness, despair, grief, or that raw miserable, craprastic can't -shake- it feeling, then you know that fighting against the feeling only makes it worse.

Look-
Some moments require us to fight.
Some moments necessitate ACTION.
But some moments aren't meant to get over, but sit with.

It's not fun, it's not comfortable, and it can feel passive, inactive even.

Within those moments though, you can do a lot.

Accept the feeling.
(For example, yep, this feels rotten. UGH.)

Give yourself permission to feel it vs fight it.
(I do not like this feeling but it seems to be hanging around)

Acknowledge that you're feeling miserable.
(I want to say I don't wanna feel this but I do)

Get quiet, internally.
(Breathing. I'm gonna keep breathing)

Quiet the noise around you.

Now lean in.

Lean into the feeling.
(Still there...)

Is there a message, a moral, a lesson to be learned or is the message that some moments are just plain sucky?

Don't fight it.
(Is it still there?)

Lean in further
Be curious.

How do you feel now?
The same? Different?
That's ok.
Save your energy by leaning in instead of fighting.

(Ooh it's still crappy but I'm oddly ok with it I think)

Lean in deeper.
Be curious.

Just be.
(EXHALE).

You can have the strongest moral character, the strongest identity, and the fiercest sense of self and what others say a...
22/04/2026

You can have the strongest moral character, the strongest identity, and the fiercest sense of self and what others say about you can still pe*****te.

How do you make others like you or at least not speak badly about you?
The short answer is you don't.

What you do instead?
You humanize yourself by having the dignity and courage to say who you are, to know your story, and tell it out loud.

You cannot change what others say or think of you. You can and you must however hold firmly and proudly to what makes you, you.

Speak up, speak loud, speak proud.

Happy 78th Yom Ha'atzmaut!

14/04/2026

Remembering the Shoah in deed and existence

NEVERSTOPGROWING
30/03/2026

NEVER

STOP

GROWING

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Beit Shemesh
Beit-Shemesh

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Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 10:00 - 19:00
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