Dr. David Lester
Therapist, Teacher, Author
An Online Clinic
Where Spiritual Sensitivity Builds a Grounded Personality
and Inspiration is Integrated into Daily Life
therapy
Dr. Lester has over a decade of clinical training and experience working in both the public and private sector.
Over the years David has helped many individuals and couples in their journey towards personal growth and healing. Through listening with both his mind and his heart, David helps his clients reach new insights and integrate these insights into their relationships. One of the first signs of a successful therapy is when a client feels heard and fully understood.
To Schedule an initial meeting with David - Click Here
Over the years David has helped many individuals and couples in their journey towards personal growth and healing. Through listening with both his mind and his heart, David helps his clients reach new insights and integrate these insights into their relationships. One of the first signs of a successful therapy is when a client feels heard and fully understood.
To Schedule an initial meeting with David - Click Here
common issues
Dr. Lester meets with clients of all ages, at different stages on their life journey. Through clinical experience and research, David has developed expertise in a number of specific areas:
Searching for a Marital Partner
Finding one's life partner is often the culmination of a process of learning about one's own needs, desires and dreams.
Developing Marital Intimacy
Therapy can help remove obstacles that hinder a couple's path towards deeper emotional and sexual intimacy.
Feeling close to one's partner lays at the heart of feeling alive and well.
Parental Guidance
Children do not listen to their parents; they intuit who they are.
Helping one's child often involves engaging in understanding the subtle unconscious ways in which we influence our children.
Dealing with Miscarriage and Stillbirth
Experiencing a miscarriage can be devastating for both husband and wife individually, in addition to straining a marriage.
Therapy can help collect the broken pieces and put them together in a mosaic that honors the past and opens a way forward.
To schedule an initial meeting with David - Click Here
Searching for a Marital Partner
Finding one's life partner is often the culmination of a process of learning about one's own needs, desires and dreams.
Developing Marital Intimacy
Therapy can help remove obstacles that hinder a couple's path towards deeper emotional and sexual intimacy.
Feeling close to one's partner lays at the heart of feeling alive and well.
Parental Guidance
Children do not listen to their parents; they intuit who they are.
Helping one's child often involves engaging in understanding the subtle unconscious ways in which we influence our children.
Dealing with Miscarriage and Stillbirth
Experiencing a miscarriage can be devastating for both husband and wife individually, in addition to straining a marriage.
Therapy can help collect the broken pieces and put them together in a mosaic that honors the past and opens a way forward.
To schedule an initial meeting with David - Click Here
teaching
At Bar Ilan University Dr. Lester teaches in The Mystical Narrative Program. In this program he offers courses including: "Dreams, Visions and Prophecy in Hassidic Stories", "Mystical Creativity" and "Spiritual Autobiography".
At Orot Israel College Dr. Lester teaches courses including: "Bibliotherapy: An Introduction", "The Use of Art Therapy in Special Education", and "Children's Literature: A Psychological Perspective".
On his book tour David taught classes about the spiritual stages of dating, the meaning of the Jewish wedding ceremony, and the mystical nature of the marital relationship.
Dr. Lester lectures internationally both at academic conferences and for communities. Contact him to check his availability.
At Orot Israel College Dr. Lester teaches courses including: "Bibliotherapy: An Introduction", "The Use of Art Therapy in Special Education", and "Children's Literature: A Psychological Perspective".
On his book tour David taught classes about the spiritual stages of dating, the meaning of the Jewish wedding ceremony, and the mystical nature of the marital relationship.
Dr. Lester lectures internationally both at academic conferences and for communities. Contact him to check his availability.
books
Mosaica Press
"This is an important book, a profound and sensitive treatment of the foundations of family."
Professor Howard Wettstein, University of California
"This is a work of love, about love, and about how to sustain love. An instant classic."
Yossi Klein HaLevi, Shalom Hartman Institute
"The richness and depth of this book derive from the intertwining of midrashim with Hassidut, Halacha with psychological insight, and existential dilemmas with practical advice. The book succeeds in integrating the values of Torah with how relationships work."
Rabbi David Bigman, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Maale Gilboa
Read a review of JEWISH MARRIAGE in The Jerusalem Post - here.
Order JEWISH MARRIAGE -here.
CREATIVE LISTENING: A Skill of Self-Listening Shared by Psychoanalysts, Authors and Mystics
Publication Pending
Dr. Lester's second book, based on his academic research, investigates the search for inspiration. This research shows that it is often those who listen to themselves closely and with sensitivity who are able to reach inspiration and create transformative words that are capable of bringing about inner change in others and in the world. "Creative Listening" is a skill developed by individuals who understand that inspiration cannot come from controlled thinking but from opening up to the deepest parts of their own soul.
The book analyzes and compares the ways in which therapists, authors and mystics use "Creative Listening" in order to reach inspired and inspiring words.
Therapists listen to their countertransference while working with their clients in an attempt to understand what is happening in the unconscious. Authors enter a dream state from which their poems and novels flow. Mystics and Hassidic masters use the imaginative function in order touch upon a mystical realm of experience from which their sermons and stories are born.
Articles
Dr. Lester has published numerous articles about marriage and intimacy on Aish.com.
1. Dating: Five Spiritual Stages
2. How Do I Know If This Person is the One?
3. The Quarantine Quest: 10 Questions for Couples
1. Dating: Five Spiritual Stages
2. How Do I Know If This Person is the One?
3. The Quarantine Quest: 10 Questions for Couples