We all want to live with joy, vitality, and connection, but so often anger, pain, shame, and fear disrupt our goals and relationships. In this paradigm-shifting work, psychologist Joanne Zagnoev draws from the rich wellsprings of Jewish mysticism and her twenty-five years of experience in psychotherapy to heal our deepest wounds.

Soul Therapy illustrates how the Chassidic work the Tanya dovetails with psychodynamic theory and offers a road map toward transforming negativity into opportunities for growth and insight. As readers work to align their thoughts, speech, and action with their true essence, this book will become a trusted resource to return to again and again.

“This is an important work…[It] will help many people become the persons they were meant to become, the people they truly are.”

Rabbi Yitzchak A. Breitowitz, Rav, Kehillas Ohr Somayach

“Soul Therapy offers us a unique formula with which to heal from our emotional wounds, synthesize our conflicting voices, and actualize our greatest divine potential.”

Simon Jacobson, author, Toward a Meaningful Life

About the author:

Joanne Zagnoev is a clinical psychologist with over twenty-five years of experience. In Total Transformation she draws from her own personal experience as well as the life stories of some of her clients (with names and details changed) to offer a deep understanding of how our emotions work. She seamlessly integrates psychological theory and Torah teachings to help heal our deepest emotional wounds. Joanne offers practical tools such as meditations to help internalize our highest beliefs so that they have a tangible impact on day-to-day challenges.

Total Transformation covers areas such as building self-esteem, working with anger, managing suffering, healing envy, and many more aspects of the human condition.

Joanne does all this using the Tanya’s model of achieving the holy balance between our earthly Animal Soul and our holy G-dly Soul. In doing so, we gradually transform negativity into opportunities for growth and insight, and ultimately totally transform our feelings, thoughts, speech, and actions so that they are aligned with our G-dly Soul and Hashem’s will.