It's 2025.
Therapy should be treating the problem you came for.
If it's not, it's time to find out why - and what to do next.
The Therapy Should Work Project is a movement to bring real, effective, evidence-based mental health care to the frum world. We're here to raise awareness, share information, and build a future where most mental health issues, most of the time, get proper treatment.
Form not working? Email us to register at TherapyShouldWork@TheCBTDBTCenter.com
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What We Do
We support and create initiatives that shift the conversation around therapy in the frum world — making it more informed, more honest, and more effective.
Events
We hope to offer more events like the Therapy Should Work Event, which brought together thousands of people, top psychologists, and leading community organizations to talk about what works and what doesn’t.
Resources
We offer a collection of handouts and videos that help community members understand what good therapy should look like and how to find it. We also offer resources for therapists to use to improve their clinical practice.
Training for Providers
Because frum therapists deserve culturally-informed support to be excellent. We’re building a culture of quality, effectiveness, and integrity in mental health care. We offer trainings, DBT skills, and consultation for therapists.
Courses
We create courses to give people low-cost and accessible options for learning evidence-based information. Our courses give people the clarity, confidence, and practical tools they need to take charge of their mental health and their family life.
Communities
We host anonymous, thoughtful virtual spaces where people can grow, connect, and feel less alone on the journey toward wellness. We have one community for family and friends of people with mental illness, and another for sustaining a mindfulness practice.
Systemic Change
We’re thinking creatively and collaboratively about how to shift the larger systems that shape mental health care in the frum world.
We hope to promote transparency, raise expectations, and prioritize approaches that lead to real healing.
Our Mission
We believe that when someone reaches out for help, they should get help that works.
Therapy should be grounded in science.
Therapy isn’t guesswork. It’s a clinical process, and there’s real science behind what works. We’re spreading awareness of evidence-based treatments — and helping people understand how to tell the difference between supportive conversations and targeted, effective care.
Therapists should be trained to deliver results
Too many therapists enter practice with vague training and little to no supervision. We’re working to raise expectations, encourage advanced training and accountability, and promote the use of proven methods that help clients get better, not just vent or cope forever.
Clients should know what to expect
The average person doesn’t know what therapy is supposed to look like. We’re here to change that. From informed consent to progress tracking, we help clients ask the right questions, recognize red flags, and advocate for themselves with confidence and clarity.
Community should shape the standard
Rabbis, teachers, mental health organizations, and community leaders have enormous influence over who gets help and what kind. We aim to engage key voices across the frum world to elevate the conversation and promote a new standard of care: one built on evidence, outcomes, and trust.
This Is About Outcomes, Not Labels
Mental health care should be about helping people live fuller, healthier lives, not just collecting diagnoses or staying in therapy forever. We champion treatments that are goal-oriented, time-limited whenever possible, and focused on real, measurable change.
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the Therapy Should Work Project
Form not working? Email us to register at TherapyShouldWork@TheCBTDBTCenter.com
Find out more about Dr. Chaya Lieba Kobernick and The CBT/DBT Center.
Contact us at info@TheCBTDBTCenter.com