Trauma Therapy. Couples Work. Women's Issues.
Jewish Identity, Antisemitism, and Indoctrination Training for Organizations.
Thoughts shape perspective—perspective shapes action—
action shapes transformation
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Malka Shaw
I'm Malka Shaw, a licensed psychotherapist with over twenty five years in the field. My training is in trauma, and EMDR has been a core part of how I work for a long time now. Most of my clients are women navigating a real shift, dating again after years out of the field, going through a divorce or a breakup, becoming a mother, working through midlife issues, or dealing with work related stress and burnout. I work with couples trying to figure out what comes next, whether that means rebuilding or moving on. Beyond the therapy room, my work has expanded into antisemitism, Jewish identity, resilience building, and the psychology of indoctrination and radicalization, areas in which I speak, teach, and train organizations across the country.
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Sometimes what you need is an expert who still feels like someone you can actually talk to. Someone who can help shift your perspective when you just can't see it yourself.
Let’s take the first step together.
~ Malka Shaw, lcsw
I'm not sure which came first, whether I was drawn to people who were struggling, or they were drawn to me. Either way, it's been true as long as I can remember.
What keeps me in this work isn't the hard parts, and there are plenty, sitting with someone in real pain never gets easier. It is those moments, when someone says something out loud for the first time or even just the expression on their face when it clicks, whether that's one person in a session or a room full of people in a training. That aha moment. when you see the door open to a shift in perspective, is the whole reason I do this.
9/11 taught me what trauma does to a person, and to a whole community at once, watching it happen in real time early in my career. I spent the next two decades doing that work one person at a time. Then October 7th happened, and something shifted. The clinical work still mattered, but I saw the same wound opening again, this time inside my own community, and knew what I'd built couldn't stay in one room anymore.
That's why I do this work. It's never really about the pain itself. It's about being there for the moment it starts to move.
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