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Lori Esses Therapy
In-Person Beit Shemesh & Herzliya & Online
Couples and Family Therapy
ABOUT LORI
Lori is a trained individual, couples, and family therapist. Her work focuses on helping individuals and couples improve intimacy, navigate conflict, strengthen communication, and take personal responsibility within their relationships. She helps clients identify the recurring patterns that create disconnection and guide them in making concrete changes that shift the way they interact with one another.
HOW LORI WORKS
As a Terry Real Relational Life Therapist (RLT) Lori’s sessions are structured, active, and goal-oriented. She uses session time intentionally to move the work forward in a direct and focused way. She views therapy as a place where relational improvement is developed through awareness, accountability, and practice. Her intention is always to create a space where honesty can exist without shame, and where change feels both possible and actionable.
A central question Lori often brings into the work is, “Who do you want to be in this relationship?” She uses this as a guide to help clients move beyond reactivity and toward intentional, values-based change. This question helps shift the focus from blame or repetition of old patterns to a more conscious way of showing up with one another.
Lori is a licensced therapist offering in-person therapy in Herzliya and Beit Shemesh, Israel, as well as therapy online. She works in English and Hebrew.
LORI’S APPROACH
Lori is direct in her approach and in couples work will call out behaviors that are harmful to the relationship when necessary, while still approaching these moments with compassion and care. She believes that growth happens when individuals are both supported and challenged, and she works to hold that balance in the room. Lori also incorporates trauma-informed work into the process, including working through trauma in the presence of a partner. This approach can deepen understanding, bring clarity to long-standing dynamics, and create space for more conscious and connected ways of relating. Even in her work with individuals, she view the client in the context of their relationships. She believes that we were created for connection and our behaviors, speech and thoughts inevitably impact others.
SPECIALTY AREAS
High Conflict Dynamics
Emotional Disconnect
Complex Relational Trauma
Codependency and Narcissistic Tendencies
Deepening Intimacy
Premarital Counseling
Better Communication
Strengthening Connection & Rebuilding Trust
Online Couples Therapy
Therapy
Individual, couples, and family
A concentrated, focused format of half day, full day, or two days for couples to accelerates progress
Intensives
Lectures and Workshops
Connect with Lori to begin your journey toward relational healing.
LiCENCES
LMSW – New York, (License #119204)
MSW – Israel, (License #39697)
DEGREES AND TRAININGS
Machon Shinui - The Israeli Institute for Systemic Studies and Family Change
New York University LMSW
BrOOKLYN COLLeGE ba pSYCHOLOGY
CERTIFIED Relational Life Therapist (RLT) - Terry Real
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Reconnect integrative trauma treatment model (RITTM)
EFT / CBT /DBT
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
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