Canadian, Dr. Rachel Z. Goodman, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist with more than 25 years of experience in trauma, resilience, mental health, and brain health. She maintains a private practice in Montreal and is licensed in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Alberta. Her clinical work includes the assessment and treatment of trauma and PTSD, anxiety and depressive disorders, ADHD, neurocognitive disorders, caregiver stress, and memory wellness, with a particular focus on prevention, resilience, and healthy aging. She is the former Co-Associate Director of the Alzheimer's Risk Assessment Clinic (ARAC) at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.

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Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, she worked at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York treating first responders and individuals affected by the attacks. Throughout her career, she has also worked with Holocaust survivors and their families, experiences that have shaped her longstanding interest in trauma, intergenerational resilience, and the ways individuals, families, and communities heal after profound loss.

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Dr. Goodman is the developer of the Dor L'Dor™ Model, an intergenerational framework that integrates intentionally lived Jewish values and practices with contemporary psychology and neuroscience to promote resilience, mental health, brain health, and healthy aging across the lifespan. Her work explores how resilience can be intentionally cultivated and transmitted across generations through relationships, meaning, community, and lived values. She also initiated and led the English translation project of Shirat HaTrigger (Sounds that Startle), a children's book by Lilach Kipnis, who was murdered on October 7, making this important resource on helping children process the trauma of war accessible to English-speaking families, educators, and mental health professionals.

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A frequent speaker, podcast guest, and writer, Rachel presents nationally and internationally on trauma, resilience, prevention, mental health, and brain health. She has spoken for professional, healthcare, educational, and community organizations, including the Association of Jewish Psychologists, the Orthodox Union, and Torah in Motion, and has appeared on a variety of podcasts exploring mental health, trauma, resilience, and healthy aging. She is the author of articles published in Kesher, the journal of the Association of Jewish Psychologists, and The Times of Israel. 

See Dr. Rachel Goodman at:

www.drrachelgoodman.com

​Robert M. Gordon, PsyD, is Clinical Associate Professor at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the former Director of Intern Training and Associate Director of Postdoctoral Fellow Training at Rusk Rehabilitation.

He is consultant at NYU Langone Health and in on the Board of the New York State Trauma Special Interest Group. He received his doctoral degree from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University in Child Clinical/School Psychology and a Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from Adelphi University. He has published in the areas of integrating existential-humanistic, relational, and spiritual approaches when working with patients with chronic illness, intergenerational transmission of trauma and resilience, multicultural supervision, and ethical issues in rehabilitation.

Robert has a private practice in Manhattan and Great Neck, New York in the areas of neuropsychological testing and psychotherapy.

His deep commitment to Jewish values and ethics is reflected in his having completed his Doctoral Degree from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology-Yeshiva University and being on their Board of Overseers, working at Jewish-affiliated educational and residential school settings, and his involvement in the Jewish Association of Psychology including writing in the areas of individual and community-based coping and moral injury after the October 7th terrorist massacre in Israel.​

Israeli, Yori Gidron, PhD, is Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel. He specializes in the protective role of the vagal nerve in severe diseases. But another research domain he investigates is the development and testing of a neuroscience-based treatment to prevent PTSD called the memory structuring intervention. It aims to replace debriefing that was found not to prevent and even increase the risk of PTSD. During the last war in Israel, he has trained over 4500 therapists, mostly voluntarily, in PTSD prevention, stress management and in the topic of war stress and physical diseases. He has also trained many people in disaster zones with NATAN Worldwide Disaster Relief.  He aims to increase the effectiveness of mental health support with scientifically based routine assessment, for the benefit of survivors of trauma.

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Yori has over 150 scientific publications and served as Professor of Health Research at Brunel University, London (2007-2009), Professor of Behavioral Medicine at the Free University of Brussels (VUB; 2009-2017) and as Chair of Psycho-oncology at Lille Univsity, France (2017-2019). Since 2019, he is at the University of Haifa, Israel.