Hadassah Johanna Hazan - Therapist - Clinical MSW

31/08/2026

Not every client needs more motivation. Sometimes they need less shame.

When people feel ashamed of their behavior, they may hide it, minimize it, or avoid asking for help altogether.

Creating a space where someone can speak honestly doesn't mean removing accountability.

It means creating the conditions for an honest conversation about what they want and what might need to change.

Do you agree or disagree?

I'd genuinely like to hear your perspective.

19/08/2026

I like to share this video with clients who have eating disorders who are fairly “left brain led”, as part of my explanation for why they can’t “just stop”, and for why as their therapist I won’t advise them to “just suck it up and get on another meal plan”

Even CBT isn’t enough. Thinking and doing are sooo important and are amazing. But without feeling and sensing there’s something missing.

We can teach and train ourselves to “do” a lot, but if we aren’t ultimately feeling safe, feeling connected, able to hold any pain or discomfort that may arise (with awareness and compassion) we can’t maintain that thinking and doing for long without collapsing.

How does our brain tell us to stay alive? Iain McGilchrist, a leadi...

19/08/2026

MY mind is blown

Mishpacha magazine has published an article about the therapeutic use of psychedelics.
It discussed how in the frum world, increasingly this work is happening on the underground (namely because the FDA has only approved the use of ketamine so far, at least here in Israel).
The article discusses how this work; when done safely and responsibly with people who know what they’re doing, can change and even save lives. It can heal deeply and in profound and long lasting ways.
We must not ignore the potential harm that can be done too: inexperienced people (even or especially well meaning people), can cause irreversible harm by administering these medicines without training or proper know how.

But when done properly, this work is indeed unlike any other I have encountered (professionally as well as personally).

Mishpacha is the “establishment” of frum life. Too frum for pictures of women; too frum for anything deemed as potentially too modern for the sensitivities of the Charedi world. And for them to publish this is groundbreaking. But also, how could they not, when such vast swathes of the community they publish for are engaging in this.

Read for yourself.

To discuss further and in more detail with me, to ask a questions or to get clarification on anything pertaining to you specifically, please PM. 💐🩷✨

https://mishpacha.com/mind-blown/

18/08/2026

18/08/2026

New piece in Chibur on eating disorders through a nervous system and attachment lens, and why purely behavioural approaches so often fall short. Includes a section on fasting in the frum community, and the relapse risk around Yom Kippur that a heter would often have prevented.

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://chiburmagazine.com/articles/the-search-for-safety&source=gmail&ust=1787083731094000&sa=E

14/08/2026

Hadassah Hazan — "The Search for Safety"

Asking someone to abandon an eating disorder without first understanding what it has been protecting them from, she writes, is like asking them to step out of a shelter before another place of safety exists. Most of her clients know exactly what it's costing them — and have fought it for years. So the question that changes everything isn't "What is wrong with me?" but "What is this doing for me?"

This is just a taste of Hadassah Hazan's "The Search for Safety" in the Elul issue of Chibur. Sign up free to read it 👇

Healing disordered eating — and why it's so hard

12/08/2026

12/08/2026

Chibur Ellul edition. Access link in comments