Stav is an MA student in the Group Dynamics program.

She holds a B.A. in education and her MA thesis at the STAGS lab examines the gendered experience of women in transition to motherhood.

Manal is an MA student in education. Her thesis, in the lab, focuses on the relationship between sex steroid hormones and fear overgeneralization among women with a history of trauma.

Michal is social worker and psychotherapist at Leumit Health Services. She is conducting her Thesis research, examining staff response to the implementation of a stratified care mental health program.

Michal is a medical psychology resident, holds a BA from the Open University and an MA from Tel Aviv Yafo Academic College. Her research focuses on gendered aspects of motherhood stress, examining the role of indivdual, relational aand sociatal factors in maternal adjustment.

Heba is an educational counsellor, who completed her MA thesis on. She has joined the lab, merging her knowledge of work with children and parent in educational settings with the lab's focus on neuroscience informed women's mental health. Her doctoral work examines The Impact of Trauma Exposure on Mothers' Parental Brain Functioning, Emotional Regulation, Parental Stress, and the subsequent influence on their Child's Learning Strategies. Heba's work is co-supervised by Prof. Adar Ben Eliyahu.

Moria holds an MA in group counseling, her thesis focusing on intergenerational trauma among children of survivors of emigration journeys from Ethiopia to Israel via Sudan. Her doctoral project, a mixed-methods study titled "Gender, sexuality, and immigration: Intergenerational effects of sexual trauma on second generation women of Ethiopian heritage born in Israel and the role of gender as a risk and resilience factor.

" broaches sensitive and understudied topics. This project is co-mentored by Dr. Shelly Engdau.

Anat is a school counselor and an instructor for schools in the field of sexuality, including the subjects of LGBT+ students and sexual safety.

She holds a B.A. in Behavioral Sciences (Psychology, Sociology & Anthropology) from Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, and an M.A. in Educational Counseling from Tel-Aviv University.

As a PhD student in the Counseling and Human Development Program, her study at the STAGS lab examines the attitudes of Israeli adolescents and school counselors regarding gender diverse identity, pressure for gender conformity, and the relationships between these attitudes.

Safaa is a Special Education teacher, Didactic, and MOXO diagnostics specialist, who completed her MA Thesis at the lab. She is currently a doctoral candidate, working on her research proposal which expands her thesis work to further understand how changes in reproductive hormones, from natural cyclical changes during the reproductive years and into menopause, relate to changes in executive functions and stress-related symptoms. She holds a BA in Special Education from Beit Berl College and an MA both in Diagnosing and Treating Learning Disabilities and in Human Development from the University of Haifa, and committed to understanding of individual differences in executive function.