The Challenge

The Waiting List Is Where Futures Stall

Israel's public mental-health system is overwhelmed; private therapy costs more than many students earn in a month. For students carrying combat trauma, loss or acute distress, "wait six months" can mean "drop out now."

The Center's Psychological Clinic provides professional, subsidized therapy for students, for graduates, and with dedicated tracks for reserve soldiers, delivered by licensed clinicians and supervised advanced practicum therapists. Care begins in days, not months.

What We Do

Three Circles of Student Care

Individual Therapy

Weekly subsidized sessions with licensed clinicians. Long-term care at a price every student can afford.

Crisis Intervention

Short-term emergency therapy for students in acute distress. Care that starts within days.

Group Programs

Trauma-processing and resilience groups, including dedicated groups for reserve soldiers.

Watch

What Healing Looks Like

Therapists, trainees and (with their consent) patients describe the clinic's quiet, life-changing work.

How Your Donation Helps

$500

= one subsidized month of therapy for one person

Your gift directly subsidizes therapy hours, turning a place of pain into a place of healing, one month at a time.

$500

One month of subsidized therapy for a student, soldier, child, or family member.

$6,000

A full year of healing for one person, start to finish, without a gap in care.

Subsidize a Month of Healing

Your gift turns a place of pain into a place of healing.

Friends of Peres Academic Center is a U.S. 501(c)(3) organization, EIN 42-3158631.
Your gift is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.