Aviva Bock is a licensed psychotherapist with 30 years of experience. She works with people of all ages: babies, children, teens and adults; parents, couples, families and groups.
Aviva maintains private practices in Massachusetts, in both Newton Center and Cambridge. She is a teaching associate in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of London, and she has advanced degrees from Harvard and Brandeis.
Religion plays a central role in how Aviva orients her life and work. When appropriate, she integrates a spiritual but universalistic dimension into the healing art of therapy, in harmony with the beliefs and background of the client.
Aviva runs workshops for teachers, mothers, families, rabbis, and physicians. She frequently teaches parenting classes in schools, synagogues, and other community settings. She has presented at the Harvard/Cambridge conferences on Spirituality and Religion and directed and taught a course for rabbis who are working with issues pertaining to death and loss.
Aviva continually pursues training in new modalities including: Internal Family Systems Theory (through the Cape Cod Institute); Trauma theory and its application in therapy (through the Harvard programs and private seminars); Infant Mental Health (at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy), and Psychoanalytic Studies (as a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis); Somatic Mind/Body Training (under the auspices of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute); EMDR (through the EMDR Institute); and Energy Therapy, including TAT ® (through TATLife).
Her publications include clinical papers in the Journal of Jewish Communal Service ("Adolescents and Jewish Continuity through the Lens of Life span developmental theory. Vol. 74 No.1) and the Exploring Issues of Gender Conference at Brandeis University (Roots and Wings: Revisiting Living and Working with our Early Adolescents") and popular articles in such publications as Moment Magazine "The Freedom of Passover."
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Newton Center, Massachusetts 02459 U.S.A.
(617) 965-3426