Yosef Chaim Akonye is a compassionate and insightful EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) therapist with a strong background in Jewish education and leadership. Currently completing his MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Yosef offers a calming, reassuring presence to clients. He specializes in working with diverse populations, including gerim (converts), mixed couples, and immigrant families.

Yosef excels at fostering deep, transformative connections in family, couple, and individual therapy, with a keen sensitivity to cultural and religious nuances. He creates a safe and supportive environment for emotional healing and personal growth. Drawing from years of experience in leadership and human service, Yosef has developed profound empathy for the unique challenges faced by diverse individuals.

Born in Nigeria from the Igbo tribe, Yosef lived in Cape Town for many years before making Aliyah in 2017. Now residing in Givat Asaf with his wife and children, he has a personal understanding of the challenges faced by minority groups—whether citizens or foreigners, Jews or non-Jews.

Ali has a great deal of experience working with clients and couples, and is also certified in levels 1 and 2 of Internal Family Systems (IFS), and levels 1 and 2 of Emotionally Focused Therapy, both for individuals (EFIT) and couples (EFCT). She currently has a private practice in therapeutic coaching, but she’s very excited to shift into the world of psychotherapy.

Ali’s specialties and interests center around shame, attachment and relational trauma, and internal attachment work. Much of her work centers around healing from neglectful, rejecting, or distant parents, and on how unmet needs from our earliest relationships create our current, difficult relationship patterns, leaving us in a constant state of internal threat, even with those closest to us.

Many of us struggle to create or maintain the kind of relationships we want, and Ali is committed to helping her clients break painful cycles, reconnect with our inherent wisdom, and heal our relationships with others and our most important relationship of all – with ourselves.