Your Coach and Wisdom Guide
Dr. Deb Berman, DMin, LCSW

NAMASTE!
You came to the right place.
I am here to help you find resolution, come up with a plan, find real resolution, and get unstuck — and sooner than you might think. Let’s get started! I work with individuals and relationships.
I’m Dr. Deb (she/her), an ordained Interspiritual yogi, a registered coach, an Ivy League educated licensed psychotherapist, and doctoral-level counselor with nearly 20 years experience helping clients succeed. I am on your side. I offer a warm, empathetic, and nurturing coaching relationship that is dedicated entirely to your healing and happiness and building the life that you want even under the most difficult of life and global circumstances.
I offer a sacred retreat for your mind, body, and spirit — a space for individuals and relationships and teams to heal, recharge, and move forward with a plan and with purpose. We will come up with a solution-focused roadmap to help you to heal what needs to be healed and learn what needs to be learned so that you can get what you want out of life.
I incorporate Eastern and Western spiritual and humanistic philosophies to complement contemporary treatment modalities including CBT, Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, Psychodynamic, Trauma Therapies, Buddhist Psychology, Leadership Development, Grief Work, Relationship Counseling, Feminist Psychology, Queer Theology, and Interpersonal Therapy.
Help has arrived! I look forward to working together to help you make real, tangible and lasting changes in your life — and sooner than you might think!
Get to Know Dr. Deb

Yes, that is the United States Secretary of State Madeline Albright giving me my Doctorate in Pastoral Counseling and Clinical Education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. My thesis is “Understanding the Spiritual and Faith Community Needs of People in Alternative Relationships” is the groundbreaking, first ever research study on DEI for diverse relationship constellations (Polyamory, ENM, Kink, Platonic Unions, etc…) in progressive houses of worship.
In addition to having a doctoral degree in counseling, I hold a Masters Degree from Columbia University School of Social Work and I am a licensed psychotherapist (in the US) and a registered coach (in the EU and internationally, with clients across 4 continents). I am an ordained Interfaith/Interspiritual yogi through One Spirit Seminary’s two-year seminary where I now serve as a dean and teach courses on counseling, relationships, sexuality, gender, and faith. I served as the Director of Behavioral Health at Interfaith Hospital and was Director of Clinical Services at Yachad/National Jewish Counsel for Disabilities. I was twice awarded the Scholar-in-Residence position at the Ortzai Arts Alliance in Basque Country. I supervise and mentor psychotherapists, life coaches, relationship coaches, mental health counselors, and spiritual counselors and I have spoken at more than 200 professional conferences and workshops around the world.
I am am radically sex, sexuality, sexual practices, Disability, Queer, Feminist, and body positive. I am knowledgeable and affirming of diverse populations including LGBTQAI2+, Kink/BDSM, Poly, ENM, Alternative Relationships, Step Families/Blended Families, Chosen Families, Straightfolx, Monogamous partnerships, and more.
In my private life I actively engage in Ayurvedic cooking and regularly attend retreats and retreats for my personal self-care and wellness. I am a daily practitioner of Anti-Oppression Functional Yoga for diverse bodies and abilities. Originally from the U.S. I now reside in beautiful Amsterdam and my coaching practice is an official entity of the Netherlands, allowing me to work with clients all around the globe.