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Chaplains

Connect with our Chaplains, who offer confidential listening and compassionate presence through in-person visits, phone calls, and Zoom meetings. Together with the ongoing pastoral care offered by our clergy, the Hesed Team extends loving support when it’s needed the most.

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Deborah Harris

Deborah Harris moved to Los Angeles in 2014 from St Louis where, before becoming a Chaplain, she was a dancer, dance educator, MSW social worker, and ...

Chaplain Deborah Schmidt

Chaplain Deborah Schmidt, BCC, believes every conversation is a sacred conversation. We all seek a Makom Kaddosh (sometimes referred to as God), where...

Rabbi Ed Harris Ph.D.

Rabbi Ed Harris, Ph.D. moved to Los Angeles from St. Louis in 2014, where he was a psychologist in private practice and a rabbi at Central Reform Cong...

Estelle Fisher

Estelle Fisher, LMFT, has been facilitating mental and emotional healing throughout Los Angeles for over 30 years. Her belief in the inherent human ab...

Laurie Hall

Laurie Hall earned her Masters of Social Work from Washington University in St Louis in 1994, became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in CA in 2002, ...