"The Community's Therapist"
Trainings & Certifications
Eddie Rahmey is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over fifteen years of clinical experience in individual, couples, and family therapy. He has completed advanced training across a wide range of therapeutic approaches and continues to refine his work through consultation with senior clinicians.
LICENSURE
Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), New York State, License #005447
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP), Evergreen Certifications
Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP)
Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (C-DBT), Evergreen Certifications
Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP), 2024
Certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Allegheny Health Network and the Rowan University CARES Institute
ADVANCED CLINICAL TRAINING
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples: Externship and Core Skills (Level 2)
Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Level 1 and Level 2
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Levels 1 and 2
Internal Family Systems (IFS): IFS-informed. IFS with teens and children, IFS for children and parents, and working with shame, anxiety, and depression through an IFS lens
Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy: Certification training with Tammy Nelson, PhD
Cognitive Behavioral Insomnia Therapy (CBT-I) for Adults: With Colleen E. Carney, PhD
Mental Health Professional Training for Basic Infertility: 2025
Ethics of Sex Therapy with Religious Clients: With Rivka Sidorsky, LCSW-C
The Body Can Change the Score: Somatic interventions for trauma
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Including Trauma-Focused ACT
Motivational Interviewing: 2018 and 2023
Zero Suicide Summit: 2023
ADDITIONAL COMPLETED TRAININGS
His earlier trainings include play therapy and TF-CBT applications, ADHD treatment for children and adults, cognitive restructuring, schema-focused therapy, somatic interventions, helping clients through separation, divorce, co-parenting and blending, online therapy for children, SBIRT, cultural competency, and maintaining professional boundaries.
CONSULTATION AND COMMUNITY TRAINING
Ongoing consultation keeps this work current:
Advanced Jewish Intimacy, with consultations from Shira Francis
EFT consultations with Ari Pearl
Perinatal and fertility issues in couples, with consultations from Helen Epstein
Trauma-focused training and consultations with Gavriel Fagan
IFS consultations with Linda Chabbot
TORAH AND RABBINIC EDUCATION
Virtual Halacha Semicha Program: Shiurim from Rabbi Ami Merzel, Rosh Kollel of Netiv Aryeh Yerushalim; learning Halachot Shabbat, Halachot Nidda, and Orach Chayim under the halachic guidance of Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl, Chief Rabbi of the Old City
Hatan Teacher: Prepares grooms (chatanim) for a life of marriage.
Yeshiva Netiv Aryeh: Old City, Jerusalem; learned under Rosh Hayeshiva Rav Aharon Bina
Kollel Keter Zion: Under Rosh Kollel Rabbi Max Masalton
Community kollelim: Shaare Zion Torah Center, Shaare Tefila Torah Center, Sephardic Institute, Yad Yosef, and Yeshiva Bnei Binyamin day and night programs
BOOKS
Eddie is the author of The Melody of Marriage: Lessons in Shalom Bayit through the Prism of Shir Hashirim, a verse-by-verse commentary on Shir Hashirim bringing Torah wisdom together with approaches from the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy, and of works on Hilchot Nidda in Hebrew and English, including the Hebrew sefer שאר בשרו. These works are forthcoming.
EDUCATION
M.A. in Mental Health Counseling, Brooklyn College, 2010
B.A. in Psychology, minor in Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College, 2008
