Jewish Therapist

Most therapists understand therapy. Fewer understand what it means to grow up Jewish, to carry the weight of Jewish family dynamics, to feel the pressure of the High Holidays, or to sit with the specific grief that has followed October 7.

Jason Wasser, LMFT has spent his entire career rooted in Jewish communal life. He has served as a therapist at Toras Emes Academy, Youth Programming Director at Beth Ahm Israel synagogue, Regional Program Director of Southern Region Young Judaea, and Student Life Coordinator at Princeton University’s Center for Jewish Life/Hillel.

He completed Isralight Leadership Training in Jerusalem, participated in the Broward County March of the Living in 2010 and 2012, and served as Programming Co-Chair and Board of Directors member for Limmud Miami.

This isn’t a therapist who has read about Jewish culture. This is a therapist who has lived it.

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What Makes Therapy With a Jewish Therapist Different

When you work with a therapist who shares your cultural context, you don’t spend the session explaining. You spend it working.

You don’t have to preface every story with “in Jewish families, we…” You don’t have to justify why the High Holidays feel like a pressure cooker, why Jewish guilt is a real and specific thing, or why the news since October 7 has made it harder to focus at work.

Jason already knows. That’s what changes the work.

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What Jason Works With in Therapy

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Therapy After October 7 and Rising Antisemitism

Since October 7, 2023, Jewish communities in the United States have been managing something that doesn’t fully have a name yet: grief for Israel, fear of what’s coming closer, rage at the responses they’ve seen from colleagues and institutions, and the exhaustion of feeling invisible in a mental health field that hasn’t always taken Jewish pain seriously.

Research confirms what many Jewish clients have felt for years: antisemitism in the mental health field is real and documented. A 2024 survey found that 74% of Jewish mental health professionals had personally experienced antisemitism in their profession. Jewish clients are sometimes expected to defend, explain, or justify their identity before their therapist will engage with their actual distress.

That’s not therapy. That’s a burden.

With Jason, you won’t be asked to justify your grief, your fear, or your attachment to Israel. You’ll be in a room where those things are understood as real before you say a single word.

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Online Jewish Therapy Across 7 States

Jason is licensed to see clients via telehealth in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, New Jersey, Missouri, and Massachusetts.

Many Jewish clients in these areas have struggled to find a therapist who truly understands the Jewish experience, not just as a checkbox, but as the context that shapes everything from their relationship patterns to their anxiety to how they parent. Telehealth with Jason closes that gap.