Welcome! I'm so glad you’re here.

I'm a certified Expressive Arts psychotherapist M.A. from Lesley University in Boston and a graduate of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. My journey also took me to the Tobias School of Art & Therapy in the UK, where I deepened my understanding of the healing power of art and mindfulness.

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to lose touch with ourselves amidst the constant demands of life. I believe in the power of pausing to step away from the noise, reconnect with our inner world, and listen to the needs of both mind and body. If you’re navigating emotional, physical, or mental challenges and seeking a way to regain balance and well-being, you’re in the right place.


How Can I Support You?

Trauma and Post-Traumatic Growth:
Life’s challenges often leave deep marks, but they can also open doors to profound growth. I specialize in helping people heal from trauma whether from accidents, loss, pregnancy loss, difficult childbirth, or other experiences and guide them toward emotional and mental renewal.

Anxiety and Depression:
Through mindfulness and creativity-based approaches, I help individuals manage anxiety, depression, and symptoms of PTSD, fostering resilience and balance.

Fertility and Pregnancy:
I offer emotional support to women facing fertility challenges, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, and childbirth. Together, we’ll work to rebuild confidence and reconnect with your body’s natural rhythms.

Chronic Stress and Burnout:
Using mindfulness and creativity, I help those coping with chronic stress and burnout to cultivate a stronger mind-body connection and regain a sense of calm and clarity.

Grief and Loss:
Coping with loss whether from pregnancy loss, sudden loss, or bereavement is a deeply challenging and emotional journey. I provide compassionate support to help individuals heal, reconnect with their inner strength, and find space for emotional growth through mindfulness and creativity.


What Happens in Treatment?

The therapeutic process is a collaborative journey of exploration and growth. Together, we’ll create a safe and supportive space where you can connect with your inner self and express thoughts and emotions in ways that feel natural to you.

  • Mindfulness Practices: We use guided meditations and breathing exercises to bring awareness to the present moment, helping you ground yourself and manage overwhelming emotions.
  • Creative Expression: Creativity is often a surprising and powerful tool for healing. Through techniques such as guided imagery, journaling, or imaginative storytelling, we tap into your inner world to uncover insights and facilitate emotional release.
  • Processing Experiences: Whether through words, art, or reflection, we explore and make sense of challenging emotions, allowing you to move toward greater clarity and resilience.

Creativity can emerge in many forms—it may surprise you in the way a guided imagination exercise illuminates a hidden feeling, or how a few words in a metaphor spark an “aha” moment. Together, we uncover these pathways to healing, tailored to your unique needs.


My Therapeutic Approach

At the foundation of my work lies the art of mindful listening a deliberate and attentive process that helps identify the most beneficial step forward. Whether it involves active exploration or cultivating stillness and acceptance, this approach honours the individual's unique needs and supports meaningful progress.

My Work Integrates

Mindfulness and Creativity-Based Therapy
This evidence-informed approach combines the grounding principles of mindfulness with the transformative power of creativity. It offers an effective framework for processing emotions, fostering clarity, and facilitating personal growth in a supportive and innovative way.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Trauma
A well-researched and structured approach to addressing anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress. CBT equips individuals with practical tools and strategies to effectively navigate challenges and build resilience.


Courses for Professionals
Comprehensive courses for professionals are available, focusing on the integration of mindfulness and creativity in therapeutic practices. For further details, please contact us.


Let me know if there’s anything you’d like further tailored!


What Can You Expect?

  • Deep Mind-Body Connection: A holistic approach that bridges emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations.
  • Focus on the Present: Mindfulness teaches us to live in the moment, fostering self-acceptance and non-judgmental awareness.
  • Creative Discovery: Guided imagination and expressive techniques allow for unique and meaningful insights into your experiences.
  • Strengthened Confidence: Mindfulness and creativity practices empower you to face life’s challenges with renewed self-efficacy.

My Book: The Art of Feeling at Home

I am thrilled to share that my book, The Art of Feeling at Home, will soon be published and translated into Hebrew. This practical guide accompanies readers on their personal hero’s journey a process of emotional and mental healing following trauma. It blends mindfulness, creativity, and compassion, offering tools for processing pain and fostering renewal.

For therapists and practitioners, the book provides innovative methods and creative tools to support clients’ healing journeys. For all readers, it’s an invitation to rediscover a sense of home within a deeper connection to yourself and the world around you.


Your Journey Awaits

I believe that within each of us lies the power to heal, grow, and thrive. If you’re ready to take the next step, I’d be honored to walk alongside you on this path.


Sarit Zeltzer

Welcome to my home page

With over 20 years of experience, my work focuses on trauma therapy, emotional well-being, and supporting individuals facing grief and loss. I integrate mindfulness and creativity to help people find healing and growth, whether through individual therapy, group work, or professional training.

Over 30 years ago, my life took an unexpected and dramatic turn. A near-death accident shattered the path I had imagined for myself. One moment, I was a young artist full of plans, and the next, I was unconscious, waking to a world I no longer recognized. Bedridden and uncertain of what lay ahead, I was forced to let go of the life I thought I knew.

In that stillness, I began to rebuild. Tai Chi, meditation, and mindfulness became my anchors, helping me connect with the present moment and discover new strength within. These practices didn’t just help me recover they reshaped my understanding of resilience, healing, and the power of creativity.

This transformative journey inspired my therapeutic work and led to the development of the Gaia method a creative healing approach that supports people through conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. It has since been adopted by professionals worldwide.

My own experiences, coupled with the resilience I’ve witnessed in my clients especially during the challenges of war also inspired my book, The Art of Feeling at Home. It offers practical tools to navigate trauma and embrace healing through mindfulness and creativity.

Life’s challenges may rewrite the stories we plan, but they also open the door to new possibilities. If you’re seeking ways to process grief, find healing, or embrace change, I invite you to explore this space. Together, we can uncover the transformative power of mindfulness and creativity to heal, grow, and rediscover your path.

Feel free to reach out with any questions or thoughts. I look forward to connecting.

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THE ART OF FEELING AT HOME - Guided Practices

The Art of Feeling at Home begins with a simple truth - healing is a journey from trauma to growth, and each step brings you closer to yourself.

The guided meditations that will appear here are part of my upcoming book, The Art of Feeling at Home, soon to be published. 

This book is a gentle yet powerful companion for the journey from trauma to growth, weaving together stories, insights, and creative

practices that help you find steadiness, strength, and self-connection.

When the book is released, these meditations will find their home here, created for anyone seeking to heal emotional wounds, 

navigate life’s challenges with greater ease, or simply deepen their relationship with themselves. 

If you wish to be among the first to receive them, I warmly invite you to reach out, and I will let you know the moment they arrive.

Courses and retreats

  • Advanced Training - Foundations of Mindfulness : Cutting-Edge Tools for Certified Therapists

    An 8-Week Exploration of Presence and Creativity. This introductory course invites you to explore the essential tools of mindfulness and creativity in therapy. Together, we will gently lay the foundation for integrating mindfulness into your work, fostering presence and connection with clients and yourself.    What Awaits You:Core mindfulness practices for grounding and...

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  • Advanced Mindfulness and Creativity Techniques for Post-Trauma Growth .

    An 8-Week Journey of healing and transformation. This advanced course builds on the foundation of Level 1, focusing on the deeper integration of mindfulness and creativity in trauma therapy. Designed for professionals working with trauma, it explores tools to help clients-and yourself-navigate the complexities of recovery and growth What Awaits You:Advanced techniques for emotional regulation...

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  • Advanced Mindfulness and Creativity Techniques for Post-Trauma Growth .

    What Makes This Course Unique? + Real-World Impact: Techniques you can apply immediately in your practice. + Personal and Professional Growth: Nurture your resilience while supporting your clients. + Proven Results: Feedback from graduates highlights the course's transformative impact.  What Graduates Are Saying "Many talk about mindfulness,...

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  • Courses, workshops, and retreatsThe mindfulness approach tools are proven in research to help reduce stress and cope with emotional dysregulation. It is now known that attentiveness allows the development of communication skills, emotion regulation, and mental clarity through intentional and non-judgmental attention to sensations, thoughts, and emotions in the present tense. Creation allows...

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  • Brain training to cultivate mental and emotional well-being even in challenging times

    In the workshop, we will learn about and experience a practice based on brain research. This research proves that a short workout per day can change brain functions and improve the quality of life when dealing with challenges and solving problems.  Each session includes theoretical background, practice, and sharing. Between the sessions, personal practice is sent,  How...

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  • Shared humanity, lecture and workshop at the art therapy conference in Riga.

    This story began in 2020 and brought me to give a lecture and workshop at the European Conference of Art Therapy, held in Riga. It all started during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic when we were all in lockdown. Despite the pressure and worry, inspiring initiatives started to emerge, promoting connection even in a time of isolation.New opportunities were created, how to find freedom within...

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Treatments

  • Online Emotional Therapy The Art of Feeling at Home

    In the challenges of life, stress, and anxiety, there’s an opportunity to find moments of calm, connect inwardly, and feel more at home with yourself. I am here to offer empathetic and professional support, directly from the comfort of your own space.    With over 20 years of experience in emotional therapy. Since the epidemic also facilitating online workshops, and as...

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  • The integration of the mindfulness approach in mental health therapy was developed as a therapeutic intervention about 40 years ago by the scientist, author, and professor of medicine John Kabat-Zin.Mindfulness has been proven in research to help reduce stress and cope with a lack of emotional regulation. It is now known that the practice of access tools contributes to the development of...

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Fertility - The Gaya Method

The Gaya method was created during an advanced pregnancy, an encounter between an emotional state of anxiety and a state of mind of creativity.

The tools of the method were formulated through study, practice, and in-depth introspection and are based on approaches and methods that combine meditation, focus, and creativity in healing processes, which I learned in the years preceding the development of the method. Later in Ilana Shemesh's book "Giving Birth at Home", a chapter was devoted to describing the need for emotional preparation and the tools of the method.

More details about Gaia can be found here.

In my work with women in fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum, it is possible to reduce disturbing thoughts, criticisms, anxiety, and emotions that obscure the ability to see the good.

The tools and the practice make it possible to cultivate a creative ability in the here and now, which affects the functions of the brain, as can be explained today thanks to brain studies, the fact that the brain is flexible and that its functioning is influenced by the right / because of experiences and phenomena in life experiences or from patterns of behavior and thought.

The process is like a star trip, where you get to know the center point from which we will leave and to which we will return, the exploration and observation at an always customized personal pace. The goal is to allow you to choose a new path for coping with the unknown towards pregnancy, during pregnancy, and after childbirth.

Here is a story that gives both a taste of what you do in the sessions and a process that started from a blockage and ended with a birth.

Noa arrived because she received a recommendation for a first appointment, the night before the start of the IVF process, because of what she already had to lose.

There was only a faint mention of previous birth experiences and their impact on her current attitude towards pregnancy in general and childbirth in particular.

In a gentle and attentive process, we addressed the experiences of loss of control and helplessness, limitless intrusion "because they cut me everything in my stomach is ruined, blocked" there was tremendous anger at the staff and especially anger at her coping.

How to be in the presence of such a situation of vulnerability and helplessness? Practice sometimes lying down and paying attention to the body, sometimes a piece that reflected possibilities that she could not think about when the thought was hazy with tears flooding.

Noa persevered in the practice of attention and attending the sessions, slowly becoming able to react differently to the feeling of distrust and helplessness. Recognition of the ability to forgive and accept the situation as it is.

The sessions were as an anchor to allow all emotions to float, to give attitude to the body. Talk and experiment with other possibilities of being with sensations, thoughts, and feelings, with the fact that there is no control in any situation.

She shared that something is happening, like a new order in relationships in the workplace (which has changed), with the spouse and children.

One morning she almost skipped into the room and when she sat down on the mattress, she put her hands on the floor and said I'm putting it here. "I'm pregnant, spontaneous like that all of a sudden...." And a big smile spread across her face, she added that this is what we have at the moment and it's good.

Along with the pregnancy, the anxieties returned and in each session, attention was given to what is now, for now, the sixth week pregnant. Seventh... Eighth... A challenging practice of being in pleasure with the pregnancy that is currently present.

Pregnancy at risk and continued to arrive, climbing stairs slowly, with constipation and breathing. The weeks passed and the stomach became present, meaningful practice of how to be present in the here and now in the body and not let anxiety manage things.

Weeks and months pass in the "most unphotographed pregnancy" she said when she laughed and approved a one-time photo that does not include a face at week 35. At week 37, she admitted that she felt that there was an agreement to communicate internally with the person within whom she was emerging and already really big and that the direction was clear, she would be next to her.

The reference to childbirth in subsequent sessions included a reference to the possibility of a corrective experience. How significant the words are when it is going to be "cesarean delivery" and not surgery, it is possible to breathe a little better.

Setting clear boundaries and focusing attention on what is good. At the last meeting, which was two days before the birth, we hugged and decided that when the time came after, we would meet again.

On the afternoon of the appointed date, two days after our meeting, I received a picture from the delivery room of a happy smiling Noa holding a stunning baby in her hands.

Reflexives essays and practise

Welcome to the Articles and Practices Space.
Here, you will find inspiring articles and content drawn from personal and clinical experience in working with trauma, crises, and emotional healing. This space offers practical tools for incorporating mindfulness and creativity into everyday life, along with practices inviting you to pause, breathe, and connect to a quiet inner place. These articles and practices are designed to support your personal journey—whether you're just starting out or looking to deepen, grow, and heal.

  • * This article is part of a book of conference articles titled "Autism Talk," published in 2017.

    The purpose of this article* is to explore the integration of mindfulness and creative practices within therapeutic settings, highlighting their contributions to emotional regulation and the enhancement of balance. This integration can be particularly valuable for professionals in the therapeutic field, educators, and parents, as it nurtures a growth mindset, lays the foundation for conducive...

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  • This article is part of a book of conference articles titled "Autism Talk," published in 2017.

    Although children with ASD receive treatment in educational and therapeutic settings, the primary and most significant contributors to a child’s development are their parents. Research has shown that parents of children with autism experience higher levels of stress compared to parents of children with other disabilities or developmental delays. Importantly, a study has demonstrated...

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  • During a conference focused on different approaches to integrating mindfulness into daily life, Jon Kabat-Zinn leaned closer to the camera and, almost whispering, said something that surprised and moved everyone: "Practicing mindfulness is like making love with life."  I imagine that if someone had said this to me before October 1993, I wouldn’t have understood what...

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  • In times of stress and tension, we all need small moments of calm and inner connection. Meditation can be a wonderful way to ease worries and gently bring our attention back to the present moment.  You don’t have to sit still to practice. Presence can be found in everyday activities that invite creativity and enjoyment. Imagine yourself baking cookies—feeling the dough’s...

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  • The practice offered here is as an effective and simple lifeline, for creating optimism now.

  • Glad to invite you to attend the First Zoom session  In a series of 8 sessions.  We will meet through mindfulness approach and creation with essential content that engages us all,  How to reduce suffering and practice inner freedom in any situation.  To feel at home in a spacious comfort ourselves.  When ?  The first Sunday of every...

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  • Mindfulness and creativity are intimately connected approaches that naturally enhance the psychotherapeutic journey, offering a pathway for profound healing and personal exploration. As a therapist grounded in the practices of mindfulness-based and creative psychotherapy, I invite you to delve into the transformative potential that this integrative approach holds.  Mindfulness,...

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  • The way sound and speech effect our sense of connection and belonging.

    The connection between the quality of sound and the quality of speech and its influence on our well-being is a fascinating topic.When I was first exposed almost 30 years ago to how sounds, tones, speech intonations, and speech styles immediately affect our physical, mental, and emotional state, I gradually discovered how to cope with situations where we have no control over what is said to...

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