I Feel That Way And It's Okay! with Tzivy Reiter and Raizy Keilson from OHEL

JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast

Tzivy Reiter, is the Director, of Children and National Trauma Services, OhelShe currently directs Outpatient Mental Health Services for adults and children, School Based Services for youth, Early Childhood Mental Health and Trauma services. In that capacity, Tzivy has overseen the implementation of evidence-based practice models across programs, utilizing current research, and data driven processes to produce meaningful outcomes. Tzivy is a specialist in trauma and disaster mental health, having run Crisis Counseling Programs after 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy. She has intervened in local and national traumas including the Houston Floods, the Pittsburgh shootings and the Woolsey, CA Fires. She has led the Ohel mental health response to Covid, including the pivot to telemental health treatment, and virtual psychoeducational sessions that attracted tens of thousands of participants throughout the pandemic. She co-created a resilience workbook that was used by 10,000 children during the pandemic and was named a mental health hero during Covid by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health. Ms. Reiter facilitated the development of trauma-informed school based resources including Return to School Covid Toolkit and a trauma sensitive schools model, Resilient Schools. Most recently, Ms. Reiter co-authored a book for preschool children, I Feel That Way and That's Okay!, and an accompanying Teacher’s Guide.

Raizel Keilson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has been working with young children for 15 years; first as a therapist and now as both a therapist and the clinical supervisor of all treatment at the Early Childhood Mental Health program at Ohel. Raizel treats early childhood PTSD, postpartum reactions, childhood anxiety, parent-child relationship challenges and divorce reactions. Raizel is trained in multiple modalities including Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), SPACE, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) Triple P. Raizel collaborated on the development of the book “I Feel that Way and That’s OK’ and other resilience workbooks developed by Ohel. Raizel is a proud mother of 5 children and loves to read-especially good children’s books! She can often be found combining her love of reading with mothering.

I Feel That Way and That’s Okay Free Coloring Pages:

https://www.ohelfamily.org/resources

I Feel That Way and That's Okay Book

https://www.amazon.com/Feel-That-Way-Thats-Okay/dp/B0B5NFDVJ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XCD40C60D4T4&keywords=i+feel+that+way+and+that%27s+okay+book&qid=1683901966&sprefix=i+feel+that+way+%2Caps%2C76&sr=8-1

The Resilient Parent | Psychology Today

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-resilient-parent

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