JuDitta Ben-David ג'ודיתה בן דוד
Has over 23 years of psychotherapy practice. A lecturer and facilitator of SE Trauma healing, Group work, Therapeutic relationships, Contemplative psychotherapy,“The Art of Breath", and Expressive therapy in Israel, Greece, Ireland, South Africa and Germany. The founder of MBSE, and GHS. JuDitta has an MA in Movement Therapy and Body Oriented Psychotherapy (Cambridge), & a BA from the Hebrew University in Psychology and Vocal studies. Prior to that she studied at the Ben Gurion U Medicine school. Taught at Medissin, Reedman & more alternative health colleges; Faculty member of Lesley University & Wingate Institute, Israel: Training Integrative Group facilitators, through Mindfulness based Psychotherapy, Mind-Body approaches, Death and Dying from the Buddhist perspective.
Teaching embodied trauma, trauma and somatization, at Tel Hai College, BA and MA programs/the school of Social Work . Lately teaching Authentic Movement at Mimar Sinan U Istanbul, Mindfulness and Trauma therapy at Safir center Istanbul.
In the USA and Israel, JuDitta co-directed and provided therapy in a women's halfway house; sexual abuse trauma. She has had much experience with emotionally disturbed youth and adults in psychiatric settings, boarding schools, soldiers and families of the defence forces, and with a wide array of clients in her private clinic. She has facilitated community work with young Ethiopian women, and Arabic women in the Galilee.
Over the last years, JuDitta's interest is in Healing Trauma, especially with the Somatic Experiencing technique, and as a founder of the MBSE training. She is an SE practitioner, an Emotional First Aid (SE_EFA) trainer, an assistant to Gina Ross in the Israeli SE training, to Diane Heller Poole (DARe) in Europe, and teaches Mindfulness Based Somatic Experiencing to psychotherapists in Ireland, Germany, Turkey and South Africa.
As a group facilitator, meditator, and a singer,
she brings forth a subtle quality of listening to personal voices and pathways, and to the sweet joys of the heart.
she brings forth a subtle quality of listening to personal voices and pathways, and to the sweet joys of the heart.
JuDittas' curiousity and interest in cultural themes and sensitivities, as well as cross cultural work is lifelong. She has been part of the Akko theater co-existence women group, as a performer, which traveled across the country to various communities, Arabic and Jewish, Religious and Secular, bridging the cultural differences through an interactive piece about the menstrual cycle. A student and avid participator in a cross cultural study group in the western Galillee, using IFS in conflict resolution, and traveled to the US with a mixed cultural women group (druze, jewish, budhhist, christian, muslim).
The CEO of the TDIL 2014 conference: "trauma-mindfulness-body-attachment", and part of a civil group (the Forum) that works toward the equality of health services in the periphery.
JuDitta is a meditator of many years, roots in the Theravada tradition, Zen, Sufi and Tibetian knowledge, a mindfulness instructor at Tovana, and an MBSR trainer (Bangor U). Not ruling out her heart connection with the Judaic tradition, she is now a student of the Diamond Heart/logos school.
Invited as a body-mind therapist on the "once in a lifetime" Israeli TV series, on "Meusharot", and on a Health channel, Teva Hadvarim. Interviewed in "Chaim Acherim" journal, and more.
Has shared her expertise and experience in a few professional conferences, such as the CMRP 2016, or the ESTSS 2015.
The CEO of the TDIL 2014 conference: "trauma-mindfulness-body-attachment", and part of a civil group (the Forum) that works toward the equality of health services in the periphery.
JuDitta is a meditator of many years, roots in the Theravada tradition, Zen, Sufi and Tibetian knowledge, a mindfulness instructor at Tovana, and an MBSR trainer (Bangor U). Not ruling out her heart connection with the Judaic tradition, she is now a student of the Diamond Heart/logos school.
Invited as a body-mind therapist on the "once in a lifetime" Israeli TV series, on "Meusharot", and on a Health channel, Teva Hadvarim. Interviewed in "Chaim Acherim" journal, and more.
Has shared her expertise and experience in a few professional conferences, such as the CMRP 2016, or the ESTSS 2015.
JuDitta lives now in Clil, a small ecological village in the Western Galilee hills, Israel.
Her heart is with the generational affects of trauma.