Therapy Modalities

Dr. Tzachi Fried is a clinical psychologist practicing in Jerusalem and remotely. He serves as the Clinical Director of Machon Dvir, an outpatient mental health clinic providing comprehensive English-speaking care for adolescents, adults, gap-year students, and couples in Israel.


Dr. Fried works with people facing a wide range of emotional, relational, and behavioral challenges, with particular experience in complex clinical presentations involving treatment-resistant despression or anxiety, complex trauma, emotional dysregulation, self-injury, suicidality, personality disorders, rigidity, perfectionsim or emotional overcontrol. His clinical approach integrates DBT, RO-DBT, schema therapy, ACT, psychodynamic thinking, and trauma-informed care, while remaining collaborative, practical, and deeply respectful of each person’s values and life context.

His work is especially suited for people who may appear high-functioning on the outside but feel stuck, lonely, ashamed, overwhelmed, or disconnected on the inside. He helps clients understand their emotional and behavioral patterns while developing concrete tools for greater flexibility, responsibility, connection, and meaningful change.


In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Fried provides supervision and consultation for clinicians working with high-risk and complex cases. He teaches therapists how to remain steady in difficult clinical moments, facilitate a collaborative balance of warmth and confrontation, and help clients move beyond insight alone toward meaningful action.


Across his work with clients, families, schools, rabbis, psychiatrists, and other professionals, Dr. Fried focuses on creating a coherent and supportive treatment environment. At the center of his work is the belief that therapy is not only about reducing pain, but about helping people live a better life with belonging, dignity, and meaning.