Our Team

The journeys are led by a multidisciplinary team of therapists, facilitators, and professionals from the fields of clinical and medical psychology, expressive arts therapy, psychodrama, group facilitation, CBT, social work, and nature and adventure therapy.

The team accompanies the combat soldiers on a personal and group journey, with deep respect for the personal story of each participant and the shared story of the entire team.

Nadav Friedman

Married and a father of four, a psychodrama and drama therapist, and a group facilitator. For many years, he has been a group and individual therapist in mental health, in treatment centers for sexual trauma, and in various programs and organizations for wounded soldiers and those affected by military trauma. He has completed diverse training programs in trauma therapy. He facilitates groups and workshops for reservists and their partners, and for coping with grief and loss.

“I have no words to explain how much power there is in such a journey. In stepping away from routine and the intense reality for a moment – to a different experience of togetherness, of connecting to nature, of strong and meaningful group time. How much power there is in shared processing. In sharing, in honesty, in the courage to connect and feel. How much power and healing there is in opening the heart, gaining strength, and connecting to my resources and the tools within me to cope with whatever I may encounter along the way. How much strength there is in the encounter with teams that fought together and in their ability to be there for one another.”

Achiya David Darchi

Married to Hadasi and father to Kerem, Neta, and another one on the way. A social worker specializing in stress, trauma, and resilience, and a psychodrama therapist. He facilitates groups, workshops, and experiential processing in Israel and abroad with combat soldiers, reservists, teams, organizations, and families. He integrates psychodrama, action, body, creativity, and group work – out of a belief that true change happens not only by talking about life, but through a living encounter with what is happening here and now.

“For me, a group is a place where a person can momentarily set aside the roles they carry, truly meet themselves, and choose anew who they want to be. After years of working with combat soldiers, teams, and people who carry complex life experiences with them, I believe in the power of a safe, living, and human space – one that allows us to process, breathe, laugh, feel, and discover that we have far more strength within us than we realize. I come to these journeys with a profound sense of privilege; to be there with people in the moments when they return to themselves, to their group, and to the ability to choose the rest of their story.”

Omer Raviv

A partner, father of two, transpersonal psychotherapist, guiding emotional processes in a private practice, facilitating breathwork and meditation sessions, and above all – a person who loves to listen. Alongside the world of therapy, I am involved in civilian search and rescue and actively serve in the military reserves. Over the years, through encounters with inspiring teachers, I have developed an approach that integrates body, mind, and elements from nature with sensitive and professional guidance.

“For me, journeys in nature are a way of life. Nature is the most powerful healing space there is; it does not preach or hand out advice, but simply reflects and teaches us about ourselves. When we step into this space as a group and undergo a process together, everything is amplified. I am a great believer in the power of this encounter, and it is a huge privilege for me to be a part of the organization and to accompany you on your journey.”

Limor Tam

A clinical social worker, retired from the IDF’s mental health sector. Mother of four, including a combat officer and a daughter serving as a combat soldier in “Swords of Iron” – an identity that accompanies me in every human encounter.
In recent years, and especially since the war, my work has focused on accompanying active-duty and reserve combat soldiers, and on creating spaces for processing, breathing, and resilience – for those who have reached the edge, and for civilian populations seeking to regain a sense of stability, meaning, and connection.
I believe in the group’s power to hold pain, to air out feelings, and from within them, to allow movement, meaning, and healing.

For me, a journey is much more than movement through space. It is an internal process of surrender and peeling away layers, of walking through pain and joy, of exhaustion and pride, of brokenness and healing.
Sometimes the magic happens quietly during the journey, and sometimes it is only upon returning home that you realize how much something inside has shifted, softened, and healed.

Noa Geva

A supervising educational psychologist and psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience in the public sector and in private practice. A doctoral candidate at the University of Haifa, researching the experience of therapists who facilitate processing journeys for combat soldiers.

A facilitator of processing journeys in Israel and abroad, and a volunteer in the psychotrauma unit of United Hatzalah. She specializes in accompanying individuals and groups in coping with life challenges, loss, and trauma. In these processing journeys, she integrates extensive clinical knowledge and evidence-based approaches: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based therapy, and nature therapy.

Merav Hasidi

A clinical social worker with a Master’s degree, specializing in trauma, and an integrative therapist (utilizing tools from psychodynamic therapy, CBT, positive psychology, and logotherapy).
Experienced in facilitating resilience journeys and processing war experiences (including “Derech HaLotus” in India, “Erez Ski” in Europe, and the Resilience Farm in Sitria).

Actively serves in the military reserves in the mentor unit supporting wounded soldiers.

Dr. Yael Erlichman

Married to Ira and mother of four. Holds a Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis, Hermeneutics, and Culture from Bar-Ilan University. She is a psychotherapist and an expert in trauma, as well as personal and organizational resilience.
Additionally, she is engaged in content development and facilitation, guiding change processes, senior executive development, and crisis management.

“The core of the journey is the path, the path where stories meet and we become companions on the way, a path of love and healing.”

Adva Kara Vazana

Married and a mother of three sons, a social worker (MSW), a CBT psychotherapist, a group facilitator, and a guide for individual and group processes.
Adva accompanies individuals and groups through situations of crisis, loss, change, and growth, integrating professional knowledge, field experience, and deep attentiveness to human processes. She combines tools from the world of CBT, group facilitation, and community processes, alongside a broad systemic perspective.
Formerly a Mental Health Officer in the IDF, she currently serves in the reserves as a resilience specialist. Her experience includes working with populations coping with bereavement, trauma, emotional overload, and complex life transitions, as well as developing and leading community initiatives.

“My approach is based on creating a safe, sensitive, and respectful space that allows for a connection to internal resources, resilience, and meaning, while honoring the personal pace and unique story of each individual.
A beneficial processing and therapeutic process begins with listening – to what is said, and to the quiet strengths that are asking for space, recognition, and movement.”

Netanel Attia

A clinical social worker, group facilitator, and therapist specializing in resilience, trauma, and growth from crisis.

In recent years, I have been accompanying combat soldiers, security forces personnel, and individuals coping with the consequences of complex life events, on personal and group journeys of rehabilitation, reconnecting to their life forces, and developing the ability to function under pressure.

Eli Hacham

A drama therapist and certified therapist (M.A.), and an expert group facilitator in the field of trauma and resilience. He has extensive experience in accompanying and facilitating groups in public and security settings, including the NATAL organization, the “Drachim” Institute, and facilitating casualty assistance officers. In the military reserves, he serves as the resilience officer of the 162nd Division.

Additionally, he facilitates groups of individuals with post-trauma on behalf of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization at the “Sitria” and “Vertigo” resilience farms. He brings to the therapeutic encounter a combination of creative tools, deep listening, and vast field experience in building resilience and processing complex life experiences.

Matan Amit

Matan Amit, a clinical social worker and CBT therapist.

He has many years of experience working with at-risk youth and in the field of addictions, providing individual and group therapy for children and youth in various programs across schools and welfare offices. He facilitates resilience workshops for the Israel Police.

Currently, he works as a facilitator in the resilience unit and centers of the Mashabim Association, the NATAL organization, and in several independent projects dedicated to accompanying combat soldiers, primarily reservists, in their return to routine.

“For me, it is a huge privilege to facilitate processing journeys, out of a deep appreciation for our combat soldiers and what they were willing to sacrifice for our people, as well as my professional duty as a therapist from the world of resilience and trauma. On every journey, I tell myself that if we succeed in helping and providing additional coping methods to at least one person, or guiding at least one participant who is in need to seek therapy now rather than after many years of suffering, we have done our sacred work.”

Ido Romaniek

Married to Nora and a father of three, a clinical social worker (MSW), and a group facilitator.
For the past 15 years, I have been accompanying men through a wide range of life processes – from therapeutic work with inmates in the Prison Service, through facilitating groups and men’s circles, to personally guiding men coping with life challenges, crises, and personal growth.

I joined “Alot Hashachar” out of a deep belief that processing journeys are one of the most meaningful ways for combat soldiers to pause for a moment, reconnect with themselves, and with what is alive within them – even when the pain is great and reality is complex. These are spaces that allow them to feel, share, see that they are not alone, and receive tools for the road ahead. Alongside this, they strengthen the ability to support their teammates, grow from the struggle, and return home with a precious gift for themselves and their families.

Daniela Golbert

Married and a mother of four. A drama, psychodrama, and expressive arts therapist. A group facilitator and a multidisciplinary artist. She integrates body psychotherapy, focusing, and Somatic Experiencing. Extensive experience in group and individual trauma work within non-profits and organizations – including Nova survivors, combat soldiers and reservists, domestic violence, sexual abuse, addictions, parenting, risk behaviors, and coping with crisis.

“It is a great privilege for me to be part of a professional team that together creates a meaningful space for processing and healing, with the aim of providing a safe, accepting, and loving place for pain, and from within it, also for growth. And an even greater privilege to be a guest in the hearts of the young and inspiring combat soldiers we meet on the journeys.”

Hadar Sholstein Alrom

Married and a mother of three. A social worker, couples and family therapist, mind-body psychotherapist, and group facilitator. She works in a private practice, facilitates groups within the Ministry of Defense, and teaches the subject of trauma at the “Shiluv” School for Mindfulness-Based Mind-Body Psychotherapy. For over two decades, she has accompanied people through processes of growth from traumas, losses, and life crises.

For years, I have been accompanying combat soldiers coping with post-trauma, bearing painful and unrelenting scars in their souls. Most of them did not get the chance to embark on such journeys and were not given the opportunity to undergo processes of processing and reconstructing their experiences together with the people they fought alongside.

I view accompanying these journeys as a mission that is a great privilege, and I strongly believe in the power of group processing and in allowing the space to feel, share, and unburden, as a significant factor in developing resilience.

This is my way of helping combat soldiers return to a path of a good and healthy life.

Noam Yehuda

Married to Eliana and father to Yisca, Ahinoam, and Oria, living in Mitzpe Netofa in the Galilee.

“I went through such a journey with my team from the Givati Reconnaissance Unit, and I feel a privilege and a duty to pass this goodness forward. A lover of people and nature, a nature therapist, and a psychologist; I embark on journeys myself and also facilitate journeys. I believe in the power of a group and of nature to drive healing processes.”

Rotem Yanai

Holds an M.A. in Group Facilitation Integrating the Arts, a certified facilitator in the ‘Nature and Adventure Therapy’ approach, Israel’s representative in the Adventure Therapy International Committee (ATIC), a coach in the science of happiness, a LiCBT and ACT therapist. He specializes in developing and facilitating workshops and programs for resilience building through arts, play, challenge, adventure, and journeys in nature, and is a co-director at FLOW.

“I am happy and proud to be part of a professional and experienced team that leads processing journeys with young combat soldiers who have experienced combat events.

My joining stems from a sense of mission and purpose, alongside a professional understanding of the importance of providing an enabling space and time for emotional processing, and for developing resilience and physical and mental well-being in a professional and supportive environment.

After the experiences of military service and war, there is a tangible need for a process of releasing and coping with potentially traumatic experiences, as well as with the emotional baggage they carry with them. These journeys serve as an opportunity to strengthen personal capabilities and coping resources, to create a process of healing and growth that helps restore a sense of inner wholeness, and to organize and reconstruct the personal and team story.”

Sky Yardeni

A clinical social worker and psychotherapist. Holds an MA in Clinical Nature-Based Therapy from Naropa University. Leads therapeutic journeys in Israel and abroad, and practices in a nature-based clinic. Provides professional guidance for treatment programs, and directs a trauma-focused course on facilitating therapeutic journeys.

“I feel most at home in nature, and therapeutic work in nature flows in my veins. I approach my work with an open heart and a deep connection to people and to the healing powers of the encounter between them. I am excited by the idea of a group of people spending an extended period in nature and dedicating time to reflect on their encounters with themselves, with others, and with the world. I feel it is a great privilege to walk alongside people on their journey.”

Roi Mualem

Married to Ruti and a father of five. Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and a Master’s degree in Group Facilitation. A certified Shiatsu therapist and a psychotherapy student.

Strongly believes in the mind-body connection and in the power of the group to drive processes.

“When I go out into nature, I am reminded that what is there was there before me and will be there after me. I can bring all the parts of myself, and nature can hold them together with me. I get truly excited when other people experience this with me, and even more so when they are young combat soldiers. The encounter between them, their souls, and nature is powerful, and it is a privilege for me to take part in this encounter.”

Erez Bar

A man of the Galilee, living in the Hula Valley with his partner and their daughter. Holds a Master’s degree in Social Work (M.A.). For the past decade, he has been facilitating workshops and therapeutic processes in nature, in Israel and abroad. He facilitates groups for processing experiences of combat, injury, and bereavement, alongside groups focusing on growth, meaning, and flourishing. A survival and ancient crafts instructor, and the founder of “Natural Intelligence”.

“When a group journey works, a process takes place that holds depth and connection. It brings you closer to the essence, brings you face-to-face with clarity, with abundant strength and courage, and instills humility. A kind of magic. It is this magic that leads me to choose this work time and time again.”

Dotan Chaim

Holds an MA from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, a Nature & Adventure Therapist, and a certified facilitator of Outward Bound North Carolina. He is a lecturer on nature, challenge, and adventure therapy at the University of Haifa, NATAL, and Tel-Hai College, and a founder and partner at FLOW.

“To be a part of the ‘Alot Hashachar’ team and to lead personal and group journeys is definitely a highlight of my professional work over the years! The privilege to touch a group of people and be part of a healing process is special and rare.”

Dr. Ilana Eliakim

Dr. Ilana Eliakim is an expressive arts therapist. A psychotherapist and lecturer at the University of Haifa, she is experienced in trauma, disorders, and crises among adults.

“I treat people who have gone through life crises and traumas, both individually and in groups. As a mother of four combat soldiers, I come to the journeys with a desire and intention to provide combat soldiers with guidance, support, reflection, and understanding, out of a belief that other therapists will provide this for my sons. An energy of giving and receiving between people and within a group is a foundation for healing and relief.”

Your Donation Is Their Future

A donation to Alot HaShachar is much more than a donation. It is a direct investment in the mental health, resilience and future of those who fought to protect all of us.

Every donation enables another soldier, combat soldier or team to begin a meaningful journey of processing, connection and return to life. It is support that arrives exactly when it is needed most, helping turn pain, burden and silence into healing, resilience and renewal.