Mission
Israel Healing Initiative is a nonprofit dedicated to healing PTSD through neuroscience-based treatment that works at the speed of science. We accelerate recovery for survivors worldwide by delivering neurostimulation simultaneously with trauma-informed psychotherapy, increasing responsiveness to treatment and enabling faster and more effective outcomes.
Origin
After the attacks by Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, neuropsychologist and clinical psychologist Dr. Orli Peter created the Israel Healing Initiative to support survivors of disasters, terrorism and war. The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Dr. Peter brought more than 30 years of clinical and research experience to the effort. Her work is grounded in a simple scientific reality: psychological trauma leaves measurable changes in brain functioning and, if untreated, can ultimately reshape the brain’s architecture.
What We Do
Direct Integrated Treatment
We begin by assessing how PTSD has impacted the brain through qEEG neural imaging. These findings guide targeted neurostimulation and trauma-informed psychotherapy. This integrated approach enables survivors with severe PTSD to stabilize rapidly. It jump-starts the brain’s capacity to recover by restoring sleep, improving focus and supporting emotional regulation, which protects against suicidal crises and extreme psychological disturbance.
After intensive treatment, we provide survivors with simple neurostimulation devices for home use so they can maintain the gains of a more resilient nervous system as new stressors arise.
Scaling Through Training
To expand access, we train healthcare providers to use neurostimulation devices and equip them to bring treatment to wider communities. Because these devices are easy to use and affordable, they can be scaled across Israel to ease anxiety, improve sleep and reduce both treatment and pharmaceutical costs for those living under the immense stress of war.
Why This Matters
Recently, Dr. Peter delivered a presentation in the British Parliament with British Army Ret. Major Andrew Fox, explaining the impact of these methods and encouraging the United Kingdom to consider them for soldiers and veterans. She also described the urgency of trauma work in a New York Times column, “If Only My Father Could Choose to Deny the Holocaust Ever Happened,” which explored the Holocaust memories flooding her father’s mind as he battles Alzheimer’s. It is a powerful reminder of how trauma shapes the brain across a lifetime.
Our Team
Today, the Israel Healing Initiative includes neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, mental health professionals and researchers from around the world. Together, they are committed to accelerating effective treatment for trauma survivors.
Neuroscience and Recovery
In a new award-winning documentary, Resilient, Dr. Orli Peter uses neurostimulation guided by neuroimaging to show how trauma impacts the brain and how neurostimulation accelerates recovery.
Testimonials
We have treated survivors of the Nova Music Festival in Israel and in the United States, and we are honored to share their testimonials of the relief we have brought them.
Neria Sharabi
People like you give me back my trust that I lost in humans that day. So thank you very much.”
Daniel Sharabi
Of all the trauma treatments I did after October 7, this was the best. I want everyone in Israel to get this treatment as fast as possible.”
Karen Haddad
I was surprised the qEEG was so accurate in seeing what was I experiencing. It even saw things I never told anyone."
Nova Survivor Guy Ben Shimon
Feels a Positive Difference after One Neurostimulation Treatment
Nova Survivor Raphael
Shares Relief From Anxiety for
the First Time in Years
Treatment Plan Overview
Help Us Reach Survivors
The Israel Healing Initiative combines cutting-edge neurostimulation with trauma-informed care to restore healthy functioning of the full nervous system—the brain, where memory and emotion are processed, and the vagus nerve, which regulates the body’s stress and calm responses. In just two years, we’ve helped survivors of Nova, soldiers, the kibbutzim massacres, Bedouin and Druze communities, and many others reclaim their lives.
Now, as we enter our third year, we have the chance to take a bold step forward: opening a full-time clinic in Israel. To make this vision real, we need your support. Your gift will create a center where survivors with severe PTSD—too often left untreated in an overburdened health care system—can finally receive intensive care, and where treatments can be scaled to reach thousands more still battling anxiety from the lasting impact of war. Every donation helps restore functioning, giving survivors the strength to rebuild their lives and contribute to their communities in ways they once thought impossible.
Help us bring scientifically supported treatments to survivors as they rebuild lives shattered by war. By joining us, you not only support recovery today—you invest in a future where trauma can be treated more effectively worldwide.
Together, we can shape the future of trauma treatment.
Hours Providing Treatment
1069
Total Number of
Survivors Treated
Number of Devices Distributed
145
187
Israel Healing Initiative
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