Experience & Education

1974-1978 BA in Philosophy Earlham College Richmond, Indiana

1979-1985 MD University of Hamburg and the Chicago Medical School Hamburg, Germany/ N. Chicago, Ill.

1985-1986 Internship Cook County Hospital Chicago, Illinois

1986-1989/1991-1993 Adult and Child Psychiatry Residency Cambridge Hospital Harvard Medical School Cambridge, MA

1989-1991 Fellowship Austen Riggs Center Stockbridge, MA

1993-1998 Training in Psychoanalysis with children, adolescents and adults Boston Psychoanalytic Institute Boston, MA

2008-2012 Apprenticeship in Evolutionary Astrology with Steven Forrest

2011-2013 The Complete Course in Evolutionary Astrology with Maurice Fernandez

2011 Certified in the GAPS Healing Protocol

2014 Master’s Degree of the Usui System of Reiki Healing

2014/2016 Training for Physicians sponsored by the Walsh Research Institute

2014-2015 Family Constellation Immersion

2015 Training in Shamanic Counseling by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies

2017 Level One Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training Certification

2017-2019 Walking in Two Worlds: Shamanic Apprenticeship Program with Carolyn Romano

2019 Core Frequency Specific Microcurrent Training

2020 Advanced Frequency Specific Microcurrent Training

2020 Newton Cultural Council Grant: Safe Technology for Us and Our Kids

2020 Gabrielle Orr Accessing the Akashik Records Levels 1-2

2022 Certified Master Practitioner Body Intuitive Energy Healing

2023 Training with Sapience in Ketamine Enhanced Internal Family Systems Therapy

2023 MAPS Certificate of Participation in MDMA-Assisted Therapy

2024-2025 Akashik Records Master Practitioner Certification with Josephine Hardman

Judy Tsafrir, M.D. Holistic Adult and Child Psychiatry in Newton, MA
Judy Tsafrir, M.D. Holistic Adult and Child Psychiatry in Newton, MA

Academic Appointment:

Faculty Psychiatry Harvard Medical School
Faculty Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Faculty Cambridge Health Alliance

Foreign languages:

Spanish, French, and German

Judy Tsafrir, M.D. Holistic Adult and Child Psychiatry in Newton, MA