Ira Israel LMFT

About

Ira Israel, LMFT, is the author of Wired & Tired as well as How To Survive Your Childhood Now That You’re an Adult, which is endorsed by Sting, Reverend Michael Beckwith, Marianne Williamson, Jack Kornfield, Shauna Shapiro, Warren Farrell, Katherine Woodward Thomas, Jai Uttal, Joanne Cacciatore, Fred Luskin and many many others. Ira graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and has graduate degrees in Psychology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies.

Books by Ira Israel LMFT

Recent Posts

Jacques Lacan on How Children Learn to Make Meaning

The game of Hide-and-Seek teaches children to bear absence, to symbolize presence, to delay gratification, and to discover themselves as desiring subjects.

Can AI Save Dating Apps?

Dating should be about sharing experiences, not about interviewing someone to see if they can play the role of "Sidekick" in the script called “This Is What My Life Should Resemble.”

The Most Important Lesson I Learned From My Father

My father seemed to believe that he won $1 every time he didn’t buy a lottery ticket; this inversion transmuted into my ability and mandate to think different(ly).

8 Ways to Stop Couples From Fighting

Here are exercises, practices, tools, and expressions that I share with clients during their initial couples sessions.

The Culture of Fabricated Self-Importance

Personal Perspective: The classic 1979 book "The Culture of Narcissism" could be updated for 2025 as "The Culture of Fabricated Self-Importance."

A New Biopic Challenges the Illusions of Fame

Insights on authenticity and self-acceptance in film.

20 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became a Therapist

Over the past 15 years of daily practice as a therapist I have learned that psychotherapy is not about mastery, not about fixing people, and certainly not about discovering truth.