BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Bio Summary

• Ph.D., Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, Ca.
• Rabbinic Pastor, ordination by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
• Transpersonal Psychotherapist, Mount Airy Counseling Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
• Adjunct Faculty, Department of Religion, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pa.
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Jewish Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
• Spiritual Director, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, Pa.
• Free-lance adult educator on topics of mysticism, spirituality, death, afterlife and bereavement
• Author Jewish Views of the Afterlife
• Born July 1, 1951 Ste. Agathe des Monts, Quebec
• Married to Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael – www.Shechinah.com
• Father of Yigdal Raphael, b. 1990 and Hallel Raphael, b. 1998


As a Psychotherapist, Bereavement Counselor and Spiritual Director:
I provide transpersonal psychotherapy; individual and group bereavement counseling; couple counseling; spiritual direction; marriage preparation; interfaith counseling; pastlife therapy; pastoral care and hospice support.

As a Death Awareness Educator
I am available for public and professional programs on death awareness education, bereavement counseling skills and the spirituality of afterlife, near-death experiences and reincarnation.

As a Rabbinic Pastor and Ritual Consultant
I work with individuals in creating meaningful personal rituals for weddings, baby-naming, memorial services, funerals, unveilings, as well as personal and communal rituals of grief and mourning.