Rabbi Margot S. Meitner, LICSW
© Photograph by Michael Silbert
Margot Meitner, LCSW, LICSW is a Boston-based psychotherapist and an ordained rabbi. She holds a B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies and History from Yale University, an M.S.W. from Smith College School for Social Work, and rabbinical ordination and a Masters in Jewish Studies from Hebrew College.
Margot is committed to accompanying people on their journeys toward emotional and spiritual health. She believes in the power of both psychotherapy and ritual to create change and inspire healing in people’s lives and approaches her work understanding the interdependence of individual healing with communal healing and social change. As a rabbi and ritual facilitator, she strives to create ritual that explicitly honors diversity and helps people see the relevance of Judaism to their lives.
As a psychotherapist, Margot has worked with a variety of communities including adolescents, survivors of trauma and abuse, families on welfare, people struggling with addictions and chronic mental illness, and queer/transgender people and their families.
Margot’s thesis research focused on transgender identity development. She has since facilitated the first ever transgender therapy group at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center and has a sub-specialty in her psychotherapy practice working with people around gender identity issues. She consults with a number of mental health and medical institutions on transgender issues and health care accessibility to help them better meet the needs of their transgender clients. As a psychotherapist working with transgender people, Margot does not see herself as a “gatekeeper” to the process of transitioning, but rather a guide on this journey of discovery, self-acceptance, and transformation.
Margot has worked as a Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor in a variety of settings including:
Margot is committed to accompanying people on their journeys toward emotional and spiritual health. She believes in the power of both psychotherapy and ritual to create change and inspire healing in people’s lives and approaches her work understanding the interdependence of individual healing with communal healing and social change. As a rabbi and ritual facilitator, she strives to create ritual that explicitly honors diversity and helps people see the relevance of Judaism to their lives.
As a psychotherapist, Margot has worked with a variety of communities including adolescents, survivors of trauma and abuse, families on welfare, people struggling with addictions and chronic mental illness, and queer/transgender people and their families.
Margot’s thesis research focused on transgender identity development. She has since facilitated the first ever transgender therapy group at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center and has a sub-specialty in her psychotherapy practice working with people around gender identity issues. She consults with a number of mental health and medical institutions on transgender issues and health care accessibility to help them better meet the needs of their transgender clients. As a psychotherapist working with transgender people, Margot does not see herself as a “gatekeeper” to the process of transitioning, but rather a guide on this journey of discovery, self-acceptance, and transformation.
Margot has worked as a Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor in a variety of settings including:
Boston, MA | 617.499.7944 | margot@margotmeitner.com