Judy Tsafrir, MD | February 2024

Judy Suzanne Reis Tsafrir, MD, is a holistic healer, activist, artist, and gardener with a private practice of holistic psychiatry and psychoanalysis located in Newton, Massachusetts. She is a board-certified adult and child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and teaches and supervises at the Cambridge Health Alliance. She has particular interest in combining spiritual and developmental approaches to healing, ketamine assisted psychotherapy, helping patients wean from psychiatric medications, and treating complex chronic medical conditions that present psychiatrically, including mold toxicity, mast cell activation, and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Her practice is dedicated to healing through the integration of heart, mind, body, soul, the biosphere, and the cosmos. 

She is a practitioner of a variety of energy healing and esoteric modalities, including Astrology, Tarot, Shamanism, BodyIntuitive, and Reiki. Her primary astrology teachers were Steven Forrest and Maurice Fernandez and she identifies as an evolutionary astrologer. Alan Oken is one of her beloved spirit guides. 

Her new book, Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Personal and Transpersonal to Transform Health and Consciousness was published by Greenleaf Book Group in January of 2024. The book is about a holistic approach to cultivating resilience and courage during these transformative times on our planet.

Judy speaks with Paul Chek on his podcast, episode 304, July 30, 2024. “Dr. Judy Tsafrir describes how healing modalities like astrology and Shamanism have reshaped her practice of holistic psychiatry…”.