Yael Hallak is a NY Licensed Mental Health Counselor, researcher at The New School’s Gender & Health Lab, and journalist at Haaretz writing about women, health, and the psychology of self-control.
is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor based in New York and a researcher at the Gender & Health Lab at The New School, where she studies health behavior and mental health under Professor Lisa Rubin.
Her clinical work focuses on how women experience the gap between biological reality and cultural expectation, particularly in areas where health decisions become entangled with questions of character and self-worth. Her current qualitative research examines women using GLP-1 medications, tracing how their sense of agency and self-evaluation shift when appetite becomes medicalized. She also works clinically with addiction, anxiety, and identity, areas where the tension between biology, desire, and personal responsibility is most acute.
Yael is a journalist at Haaretz and a published author. She writes and speaks about how psychological frameworks can help women distinguish sustainable self-care from moral performance, and what it means to hold both biology and agency seriously at the same time. Women who lost weight on GLP-1 medications were judged more harshly than women who lost nothing. The psychology behind that finding is worth understanding.
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