Dr. Sharon Ziv-Beiman
Fields of Research
School of Behavioral Sciences
Psychotherapy Integration
Therapist self-disclosure
Inter-relations between the therapeutic technique and therapy outcomes
Teaching and training in psychotherapy
Psychotherapy of adults and couples
Short Bio
Dr. Sharon Ziv-Beiman – Licensed clinical psychologist and supervisor, senior faculty member and head of the Mifrasim Institute for Psychotherapy Training and Research at the School of Behavioral Sciences at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, founder and board member of ”Ogen – Integration Based Psychotherapy Training Program,” as part of the Institute. She is a former chair of the Israeli Forum for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IFRPP), a former board member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), founder and active member of "Siach Group: An Institute for Relational Psychotherapy" in Tel Aviv. She is also engaged in and was a founder of the "Israeli Association for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration" and "The Israeli Group for Psychotherapy Research," and has a private practice in Tel Aviv.
Her research fields include psychotherapy integration, therapist self-disclosure, inter-relations between the therapeutic technique and therapy outcomes. Teaching and training in psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy of adults and couples – private practice.
Selected Publications
Alfi-Yogev, T., Kivity, Y., Hasson-Ohayon, I., Ziv-Beiman, S., Yehezkel, I., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2023). Client-therapist temporal congruence in perceiving immediate therapist self-disclosure and its association with treatment outcome. Psychotherapy Research, 33(6), 704-718. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2022.2151947
Chen, R., Bar-Kalifa, E., Sade, A., & Ziv-Beiman, S. (2022). Client-therapist congruence in session-helpfulness ratings and its association with therapy outcomes. Psychotherapy Research, 32(4), 484-496. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2021.1974598
Govrin, A., Shahar, G., & Ziv-Beiman, S. (2022). Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Israel: a tale of hegemony, strife, and (apparent) growth. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 36(4), 312-330. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2022.2109715
Katz, M., Ziv‐Beiman, S., Rokah, N., & Hilsenroth, M. (2022). Crying in psychotherapy among Israeli patients and its relation to the working alliance, therapeutic change and attachment style. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 22(2), 439-457. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12458
Alfi-Yogev, T., Hasson-Ohayon, I., Lazarus, G., Ziv-Beiman, S., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2021). When to disclose and to whom? examining within-and between-client moderators of therapist self disclosure-outcome associations in psychodynamic psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 31(7), 921-931. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2020.1867774
Nasim, R. S., Ziv-Beiman, S., Leibovich, A., Sousa, I., Gonçalves, M. M., & Peri, T. (2021). Innovative moments and session impact in brief integrative psychotherapy: An exploratory study. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 31(1), 86.doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000189
Slobodin, O., & Ziv-Beiman, S. (2021). “Keeping culture in mind”: Relational thinking and the Bedouin community. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31(4), 450-467. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2021.1925284
Chen, R., Rafaeli, E., Ziv-Beiman, S., Bar-Kalifa, E., Solomonov, N., Barber, J. P., Peri, T., & Atzil-Slonim, D. (2020). Therapeutic technique diversity is linked to quality of working alliance and client functioning following alliance ruptures. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88(9), 844. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000490
Shahar, G., & Ziv-Beiman, S. (2020). Using termination as an intervention (UTAI): A view from an integrative, cognitive-existential psychodynamics perspective. Psychotherapy, 57(4), 515. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000337
Ziv-Beiman, S. (2020). Implication of research findings on coping styles and treatment outcomes. Sihot/Dialogues: Israeli Journal of Psychotherapy, 34(2), 90-95.
Nasim, R., Shimshi, S., Ziv-Beiman, S., Peri, T., Fernández-Navarro, P., Oliveira, J. T., & Gonçalves, M. M. (2019). Exploring innovative moments in a brief integrative psychotherapy case study. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 29(4), 359. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000148
Ziv-Beiman, S., Keinan, G., Livneh, E., Malone, P. S., & Shahar, G. (2017). Immediate therapist self-disclosure bolsters the effect of brief integrative psychotherapy on psychiatric symptoms and the perceptions of therapists: A randomized clinical trial. Psychotherapy Research, 27(5), 558-570. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2016.1138334
Ziv-Beiman, S. & Shahar, G. (2016). Therapeutic self-disclosure in integrative psychotherapy: When is this a clinical error? Psychotherapy, 53(3), 173-277. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000077
Ziv-Beiman, S. (2016). Sociopolitical enactments as arenas of mutual vulnerability: Psychotherapeutic experiences during the war between Israel and Gaza in the summer of 2014. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 26(5), 580-591. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2016.1214476
Ziv-Beiman. S. (2015). Integrative psychotherapy and coping with psychopathological syndromes: Dilemmas around the treatment of a patient with resistant trichotillomania. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 25(3), 175-182. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039554
Ziv-Beiman, S. (2015). The “binocular vision” of psychotherapeutic processes: A response to Paul Wachtel’s and Eva Gilboa-Schechtman’s commentaries. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 25(3), 196-198. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039557
Ziv-Beiman, S., & Shahar, G. (2014). What is integrative psychotherapy? Sihot/Dialogues: Israeli Journal of Psychotherapy, 28(2), 156-163.
Ziv-Beiman, S. (2014). Teaching psychotherapy integration from the beginning:
A proposal to teach integration as a fundamental aspect. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 24, 251-257. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037800
Ziv-Beiman, S. (2013). Therapist self-disclosure as an integrative intervention. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 23, 59-74. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031783