It's Complicated

Sahar Rokah

Mindfulness-Based Therapist

Verified by It's Complicated
Available for new clients
Welcoming individuals and couples to move beyond anxiety and old patterns, understand root causes, loosen attachment patterns, reconnect emotional parts, and enrich life through somatic, mindfulness-based psychotherapy.

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At a glance
Lisbon, PortugalAvailable in-person and online
Offers free 15 minute introductory callThis provider offers a free introductory call
Note from SaharProfessional training and experience matter and so does the chemistry you feel. Warmly invited to book a free intro call.
Illustration of a smiling sun peeking over a cloud, symbolizing warmth and positivity for connecting with the therapist.
Usually responds within 4 hours

About me

I experience my work not only as a profession, but as a meaningful calling — helping individuals and couples move from trauma toward healing, safety, and connection. I am a certified Attachment-Based Psychotherapist for individuals and couples (EFT-informed), completed a four-year professional training in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, and continued with a fifth year as an assistant at the Hakomi Institute. I have also been in ongoing professional training in Somatic Experiencing since 2019 for trauma healing and nervous system regulation. I am a member of the Israeli Multidisciplinary Association for Psychotherapy. My professional growth has been deeply connected to my personal growth, and it gave me the inner resources to do one of the hardest things I have ever done: emigrate during a time of war. I left Israel shortly after October 7th, and since then I have continued supporting clients and students online while building a new life, practice, and teaching work in Lisbon. I have extensive experience supporting recovery from shock trauma, developmental trauma, relational wounds, and major life transitions. I work with individuals and couples seeking healing, emotional security, and more fulfilling relationships. I believe healing happens when we feel safe enough to soften, supported enough to explore, and connected enough to grow. I bring warmth, openness, and a grounded therapeutic presence to our work together. Alongside my clinical work, I am a certified mindfulness teacher who has taught over 1,200 hours of Mindfulness, Emotional regulation, Trauma-sensitive mindfulness, and Attachment-based work to hundreds of students, including therapists and helping professionals.

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Location:

Lisbon, Portugal

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Approach

Treatment Approaches
EFT: Emotionally focused therapyRecommended for couples or individuals who want to strengthen emotional connections in relationships by exploring feelings and attachment.
Humanistic psychologyRecommended for those looking for a therapy that emphasizes personal growth and self-fulfillment, focusing on becoming your best self in a positive, non-judgmental space.
Somatic ExperiencingRecommended for those who want to use the mind-body connection to address the effects of trauma and restore natural regulation of the nervous system.
We are wired for connection, and our closest relationships often become the place where pain and healing meet. Many patterns that create distance, conflict, anxiety, or shutdown today once developed as ways to protect us. I offer an experiential, integrative approach grounded in empathy, attunement, and genuine human connection. Together, we explore not only thoughts and insight, but also what is happening in the present moment — in emotions, the body, attachment patterns, and the therapeutic relationship itself. For individuals, therapy can help soften old coping patterns, heal trauma, strengthen boundaries, improve self-regulation, and create greater self-worth, vitality, meaning, and a stronger sense of agency — allowing you to lead your life from a place of inner connection. For couples, I help partners understand and recognize the automatic negative cycle that once developed to protect them, yet now keeps them distant, reactive, and stuck in pain or frustration. Together, we reduce reactivity, improve communication, and create new experiences of vulnerability, safety, softness, closeness, and trust — learning how to build a more secure, loving, and resilient bond. My work integrates attachment-based psychotherapy, Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, and other contemporary approaches.

Experience

2021–Present: Private practice with individuals and couples, online and in person, offering long-term psychotherapy (IL / PT / Online). 2021–2022: Clinical experience in a trauma-informed psychiatric day unit, providing individual and group therapy, including treatment-resistant depression within psychedelic-assisted therapy settings (IL). 2021–2022: Assistant at the Hakomi Institute (IL). 2019–2020: Therapeutic work with immigrant adolescents at Alonim Youth Village, Givat Ada (IL). 2014–Present: Teaching mindfulness, emotional regulation, attachment, and somatic-based courses primarily to therapists and helping professionals, as well as academic and public audiences (1,200+ hours; hundreds of students) (IL / Online). 2021: Taught mindfulness to students with ADHD at Ono Academic College (IL). 2020–2021: Taught mindfulness at Reidman College of Integrative Medicine (IL). 2020–2022: Created and taught a mindfulness course for women with fibromyalgia through Maccabi Healthcare Services (IL). 2023: Mindfulness teacher in a research project supporting refugees (PT / Online). 2016–Present: Dharma facilitator with Tovana – the Israeli Vipassana Association (IL / Online).

Education

• Certification in Attachment-Based Psychotherapy for Individuals and Couples – The Healing Bond Institute, Israel • Graduate of the Training in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy – Hakomi Institute Israel • Advanced Hakomi Training (5th Year) and Assistant, Hakomi Training Program, Hakomi Institute Israel • Ongoing Certification Training in Somatic Experiencing® • Certified Mindfulness Teacher (MBSR, MBCT) – Muda Institute / Reichman University (Israel) & Bangor University (UK) • Additional advanced trainings in AEDP (“Healing Through Emotion”; “Emotion, Experience and Spirit as a Compass for Therapeutic Work”), Somatic Approaches to Attachment Patterns, Personality Patterns in Psychotherapy (clinical practice and supervision), Narcissistic and Psychopathic Relationships, Shadow Constellation for Therapists, Relationship OCD (ROCD), Sexuality, Eros and Mindfulness, Loving Presence and Somatic Integration for Trauma Treatment, From Adolescence to Adulthood, and The Full Adult Self. • Registered Member, Israeli Multidisciplinary Association for Psychotherapy

Services

Intro Call

Free 15 min Online

Couples Session

€100 1 hr Online & In-person

Individual Session

€100 1 hr Online & In-person

Insurances

Private Pay
At a glance
Lisbon, PortugalAvailable in-person and online
Offers free 15 minute introductory callThis provider offers a free introductory call
Note from SaharProfessional training and experience matter and so does the chemistry you feel. Warmly invited to book a free intro call.
Illustration of a smiling sun peeking over a cloud, symbolizing warmth and positivity for connecting with the therapist.
Usually responds within 4 hours
Next available: Jun 8