Rabbi Margot S. Meitner, LICSW
© Photograph by Michael Silbert
Margot Meitner, LICSW is a Boston-based psychotherapist and community rabbi 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. Margot has served as a rabbi in congregational, university/Hillel, and chaplaincy settings.
Margot has a private psychotherapy/spiritual counseling and consulting practice in Boston and serves on the faculty of Hebrew College, teaching and training future rabbis and cantors in spiritual care and counseling. 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 mental health/medical institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations on transgender issues and health care accessibility to help them better meet the needs of their transgender clients and employees. 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 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 has a private psychotherapy/spiritual counseling and consulting practice in Boston and serves on the faculty of Hebrew College, teaching and training future rabbis and cantors in spiritual care and counseling. 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 mental health/medical institutions, non-profit organizations, and corporations on transgender issues and health care accessibility to help them better meet the needs of their transgender clients and employees. 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 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.
Boston, MA | 617.499.7944 | margot@margotmeitner.com