About Me
From a young age, I had a feeling that there was something greater in life than what I Knew
I had a sense that I had a significant role to play in the world, where I would help many people and be a light for them.
At around the age of 5, I experienced a severe trauma that, in hindsight, affected me greatly. Magically and brilliantly, I suppressed the entire experience and completely forgot about it.
When I reached middle school, everything felt different to me. I felt very insecure being with all the new kids, some of whom seemed more mature and experienced than I was, as I was quite naive. Because of what I had gone through, I also had a tremendous fear around sexuality, which bothered me greatly at that age (even though I didn’t understand the reason for that fear back then).
That year, a girl who I considered to be the most beautiful in my class, and who I sat next to, wrote me a note with a smile that said, “You’re ugly.” I was so insecure and wanted her so much that this message completely shattered my confidence, and probably subconsciously brought me back to the pain I experienced as a child. With those two words, I sank into a deep depression and helplessness. I hated myself, felt insecure, and suddenly became a very quiet teenager, even though until then I had been quite vocal.
Out of shame, I didn’t tell anyone how I felt, and I hid my depressive mood from my family at home and my friends, dealing with it alone. I thought a lot about ending my life and hated going to school.
The Journey to Be Happy No Matter What
When I started 11th grade, I made a decision that changed my life. I looked at my life as I was living it and realized that I would never achieve the goals I wanted and fulfill myself this way.
I began to change my beliefs about myself, and there were real results! I entered into a relationship with a special girl named Granite, with whom I am still in a relationship today (love at first sight ❤️), and in my studies, I completed my matriculation exams that year, receiving over 95 in all my tests and 100 in most of them.
After achieving all my goals, I asked myself, “What now?”
I was filled with a sense of emptiness and meaninglessness. Suddenly I realized that everything I aspired to achieve was meaningless, and the happiness I sought through these achievements didn’t truly make me happy.
I started to have many thoughts suggesting that life was meaningless, which led me into deep depression.
I understood that I wanted to be happy from within, and I embarked on a journey to fulfill that.
After always searching for happiness externally, through achievements and external validation, at the beginning of 12th grade I realized that the happiness I was looking for could only be found within me, and that there was no other way.
Thus began my journey to be “happy no matter what,” free from dependence on the outside world.
I tried everything I could; I started therapy with a wonderful psychologist named Joel, learned meditation and yoga, and read many books on spirituality, psychology, philosophy, and personal development.
A central turning point was when I discovered the book “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz, which influenced me greatly! I read every material I could find written by Miguel, and in this way, I found the roadmap for how I could find the joy and inner freedom that I so desperately wanted and sought.
But while the books and theories I learned helped, I didn’t understand how to truly apply them. I felt I needed a clearer roadmap of “step by step” on how I could actually create the changes I wanted. I wanted someone experienced, who had found joy and inner freedom, to explain to me what to do and perhaps guide me individually regarding the different challenges in my life that I needed help with.
That’s When I Found My Mentor And Spiritual Teacher, Gary:
During my military service, I was exposed to the teachings of a spiritual teacher named Gary from the USA, who himself was a student of Don Miguel Ruiz for ten years, and I was immediately interested. After reading all of Gary’s materials and experiencing how they helped me, I enrolled in his digital course: “Be the Master of Yourself,” and not long after, I started having 1:1 sessions with him.
The sessions with Gary and his course changed my life. Session after session, we began to peel away many layers of limiting beliefs, fears, and traumas that had restricted me in life, and between 2019 and 2022, three years of sessions with him transformed me, healed a lot, and I became a completely different person.
The theories I had read about in Don Miguel Ruiz’s books began to become my reality, and my perception of myself and the world looked entirely different.
Along the way, I also delved into Zen studies with an American Zen teacher named “Alex Mill,” who had been in a monastery for 14 years. Working with him between 2020 and 2023, I learned a lot about the Zen way of making internal changes, living in the moment, and freeing myself from the limitations that the conditioning we developed throughout our lives places on us. I also learned trauma therapy through the “Compassionate Inquiry” approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté.
During this time, starting in 2020, I also began to provide therapy, learned meditation facilitation, and started conducting sessions for people using the various approaches I learned.
My Love for Life Deepens By The Day:
I proved to myself that I could find happiness from within and overcome the challenges of trauma and depression, and every year I feel happier, calmer, and more complete within myself than the previous year, regardless of what is happening in the outside world.
It’s true that my happiness is inherently internal, but I do find that the more I am happy from within, the better things I attract to myself externally, and it’s so much fun!
These days, I work with people in my clinic, guiding them through internal processes of growth and healing, manage the digital school “Happy No Matter What,” which includes a supportive and loving community, and courses covering all the tools I have ever learned in my journey. I lead retreats with Gary in Mexico and transformational courses in intimate groups on topics such as emotional trauma healing, spirituality, creating the lives we want, relationships, and learning to be the masters of ourselves.
I also continue to develop myself and learn different therapeutic approaches so that I can be the best therapist I can be, and in recent years, I have worked extensively with circular breathing (rebirthing), acupressure, and regression.
My Qualifications
- Over 5 years of intensive and deep study of the Self Mastery approach (“Be the Masters of Ourselves”) of my mentor Gary, which includes 500+ hours of courses, 5+ in-depth week-long retreats, and 500+ hours of deep 1:1 sessions with him.
- Mindfulness Meditation and Dharma Teacher training at Wingate College, studying with Alon Par.
- Zen study and personal training in the Zen way with American Zen teacher “Alex Mill” for two years, which includes 50 hours of training through courses and another 60 hours of 1:1 learning with him in personal meetings. There are many parallels between Alex’s approach and the “Trilotherapy” approach of Nissim Amon.
- Research-based personal coaching training for adults and teenagers at the American Coaching School: “Youth Coaching Academy,” recognized by the International Coaching Organization.
- Trauma therapy training through the “Compassionate Inquiry” approach of the international trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté.
- “Soul Healing” treatment training by Dor Shamai: a treatment approach involving circular breathing and entering regression and trance states.
- Rebirthing – a circular breathing therapy approach that I learned to guide through the “Soul Healing” training of Dor Shamai.
Other Approaches I Haven’t Officially Studied but Use and Work With Deeply:
The Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapeutic approach: one of my favorite therapeutic approaches that helps us find integration and harmony among all the parts within us. This is an approach I use a lot in the clinic, I have researched it deeply, and I have experienced hundreds of hours of therapy through it as a patient. It is very similar to the therapeutic approach I learned from my mentor Gary.
Somatic Experiencing therapy, an amazing research-based approach to emotional and trauma healing.
Non-duality studies from spiritual teachers Mooji, Eckhart Tolle, and Rupert Spira.
Byron Katie’s “The Work” method.
Exposure therapy (ERP).
Meditations from Osho’s approach.
Motivational Interviewing therapy approach that I learned in a self-study course from Psychwire.
More than any of my training, the guiding process I do with people is dynamic, intuitive, and present in the moment. Therefore, many times I incorporate tools I invent in that moment that fit the person I’m working with, addressing their unique needs, and I know how to combine all the tools I’ve learned into one coherent process that meets all your needs on many different levels.
The most significant thing I’ve learned in my years as a patient and therapist is that the best therapists are those who know how to be present in the moment, are intuitive, and attentive to the person in front of them, and who also do deep work of development with themselves.
Therefore, I continue to develop and learn new healing and therapy approaches all the time, incorporating them into the processes I conduct, and connecting more and more to the presence and intuition within me to guide all the people going through processes with me in as present, loving, ethical, professional, and transformative a way as I can 🙏.
A Little Personal Information and Fun Facts About Me
- I am still going through various processes and learning all the time. I am also still studying with Gary, and my journey with him continues to deepen and amaze me with the new insights and depths we are reaching.
- I have been in a relationship since 2017 with my amazing partner, Granit, the incredible woman I met in 2017 when I was a 17-year-old boy, and I am still with her today ❤️. She is on her own incredible personal and spiritual growth journey and is currently a therapist herself.
- I have a PlayStation 5, and I really love playing it. It brings me back to the joys of my childhood and adventures in magical and imaginary worlds.
- My favorite and most moving movie is “The Shawshank Redemption,” and I’m also a huge fan of superhero movies. My favorite heroes are Batman (which connects me to my dark side) and Spider-Man (which connects me to my light).
- I have a lovely dog named Raven, and I had a wonderful childhood dog named Nana who passed away. I love her so much❤️.
- I have a dream of living half the year in my home country and half the year traveling the world, and I plan to start realizing that dream next year with a six-month trip to Mexico.
- I am an endlessly curious person and love learning about various topics. Of course, mainly about spirituality, but I am also very interested in dance, vocal training and music, economics, investments and crypto, geopolitics, mathematics, and quantum physics.
