Anxiety in Jewish Women: Clinical Considerations

This webinar is presented by Helen L. Coons, PhD., ABPP
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 
Time: 7:00 pm to 8:30 p.m. ET 
The webinar is approximately 90 minutes long, and the ZOOM link will be sent in the email confirmation when you register. We will also email you a few days before the webinar.

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This presentation will review historical, family and contextual factors contributing to anxiety in Jewish women across the life span. The impact of antisemitism, concerns about personal and family safety, inter-generational trauma, internalized performance expectations, pressures to have children, family and individual narratives, high risk for cancer and other genetic conditions, prioritizing family and community, among other issues on anxiety in Jewish women will be highlighted. In addition, assessment, treatment and prevention approaches will be summarized. Case examples of Jewish women living in different relational and family situations will illustrate clinical issues. Workshop participants will be invited to discuss the cases as well.   

Learning Objectives

1. Summarize five historical, family and contextual factors contributing to anxiety in Jewish women across the life span. 
2. Describe two clinical approaches to assess anxiety in Jewish women across the life span. 
3. Summarize two treatment and prevention interventions to address anxiety in Jewish women to improve health and well-being. 

Helen L. Coons, PhD., ABPP, is the President and Clinical Director of Women’s Mental Health Associates and Health Psychology Solutions, Denver, Colorado. She is a board-certified clinical health psychologist known for her clinical work and integrated services in women’s health care. Dr. Coons has worked with women and couples facing PCOS, infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss, perinatal mental health conditions, breast, gynecological, colon and other cancers, midlife and menopause, trauma, loss, sexual health challenges and professional transitions for over three decades. Known as a dynamic speaker, Dr. Coons presents to health and behavioral health care teams as well as community and corporate audiences on women’s health and mental health issues. She has also presented on Jewish women and stress, psychological wellbeing in the Jewish community and psychosocial aspects of breast cancer and high cancer risk to Reformed and Conservative synagogues in the greater Philadelphia and Denver areas, for Hadassah and the Women of the J in Boulder, Colorado as well as Sharsheret - a Jewish breast cancer organization. Dr. Coons consults at the national level on women’s health issues and psychosocial oncology and serves as an expert source for media writers. A fellow of the APA, she was the founding chair of the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology, a past member at large on the APA Board of Directors, was a former President of the Society for Health Psychology and is the current co-chair of the APA Presidential Task Force on Midlife and Menopause Health and Wellbeing among other elected and appointed leadership roles.