Jonathan Huppert

Professor, The Center for Trauma Recovery at The Hebrew University

Jonathan Huppert is Helen and Sam Beber Chair of Clinical Psychology and Professor in the Department of Psychology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the former department chair and former head of the clinical program. Dr. Huppert is the head of the Laboratory for the Treatment and Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing at The Hebrew University. He has been working for over 25 years treating, studying, and working to improve treatments for anxiety, OCD, PTSD and related disorders. He has published over 150 articles and chapters on processes and outcomes in evidence-based psychological interventions with an emphasis on cognitive behavioral therapy, experimental psychopathology, assessment, emotion regulation, the alliance, placebo effects, and most recently imagery-based interventions and theories of treatment. Dr. Huppert has worked on dissemination of cognitive behavioral therapy throughout Israel. He has been spearheading the development of internet based CBT in Hebrew and Arabic and also improving access to evidence based treatments in collaboration with Israel's Ministry of Health and HMOs. After October 7th, Dr. Huppert has established the Center for Trauma Recovery at The Hebrew University, which is focused on training therapists in evidence-based treatments for trauma and related disorders in the public sector, developing technology to help reach people at scale, and developing a campaign for the public and therapists. They have trained over 300 therapists in the last year alone.