Dr. Nacasch Axelrod is a psychiatrist and psychotherapists, director of the clinic for cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of PTSD, OCD and anxiety disorders at the Sheba Medical center affiliated to Tel Aviv University. She is an expert in trauma and its effects and conduct researches in the field of the effects of trauma following combat, terrorism, child sexual abuse and other civilian traumas. In addition, she coordinate a CBT course in continuing education for psychiatrists at the faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and lecturer at various institutions for CBT. Dr. Nacasch serve as a consultant to the Israeli Ministry of Defense in the field of trauma and is a member in several professional organizations in Israel. She a certified trainer and supervisor of Prolonged Exposure therapy for PTSD from Penn universityin. For the past 20 years, she implemented treatments for trauma in Israel and in various places in the world and established a center for CBT for PTSD at Sheba Medical Center by conducting dozens of workshops for Prolonged Exposure therapy (PE) in Israel and around the world together with Prof. Foa and alone (USA, Canada, Sweden, Poland, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, France). As part of her specialization in PTSD, she trained therapists from the Veterans administration in Canada and supervised them for almost 2 years. Also, she trained therapists in Sri Lanka after the tsunami, in France after the terror attacks in Paris, Ukrainian and Polish therapists following the war in Ukraine, and disseminated PE in Israel. Dr. Nacasch conducted and published researches in the field of PTSD & OCD. She is one of the authors of the PE protocol in Hebrew and one of the developers of "" Atem Et "" an online treatment for the treatment of PTSD in children. Since October 7, 2023, She has been taking care of hostages returning from Hamas captivity, survivors of the Nova festival and soldiers.