Our Story

      I’m Kinneret Ladizinsky-Kasif and to use labels I’m most comfortable with to describe myself, I’m a mother to my dear son, Eden, a partner to my husband Eitan and a student of many fields of interest.

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       My areas of study include a degree in Psychodrama, certification in Chinese medicine and certification in the Adlerian based method of coaching for parents of young children and adolescents. From all of these areas of study, I’ve learned and evolved and picked up many tools to take with  me on my professional journey.

       In 2013, I met Ilana Stein-Attali who would later become my partner and co-founder of the SMTW Method. While Ilana’s academic background is rooted in classical science, and mine in Adlerian psychology, we both have in common our certification in Chinese medicine.

 

       In 2017, we piloted the SMTW Method. We have each incorporated the method into our respective clinical practices, mine as a Parenting Coach and Ilana as a Chinese Medicine Practitioner.

 

       My first experience employing the SMTW Method in my clinic presented me with a great challenge. My client was the mother of a teenage girl, who was extremely frustrated at her inability to communicate with her daughter. This case was extremely complex and the daughter had not been speaking with her mother for over a year when my client came to me. I introduced the SMTW Method to the mother at our eighth session together.

 

       Meanwhile, in the SMTW focus groups I was facilitating simultaneously, the participants were experiencing significant breakthroughs during their first and second sessions of practicing the method. This encouraged me to continue developing the method, but this was already a positive sign that it was highly effective and can achieve results in a relatively short span of time (over 8-12 sessions).

 

       Since its inception, I have used SMTW with all of my clients in my professional clinic and also practice the method myself daily.