When Hearts Shatter, We Begin the Healing
No family should face the psychological storm of illness alone
When Families Shatter, We Restore Hope
The Hidden Wounds That Medicine Can’t Touch
A father watches monitors beep while his child asks why God is angry with them. A mother lies awake replaying the doctor’s words, unable to process what “terminal” means. Healthy siblings retreat into silence, feeling invisible while their parents focus entirely on the sick child.
How Your Support Brings Emotional Healing
At Or Lacholeh, we provide professional psychological care for families facing medical trauma. Our therapists understand how serious illness affects parents, patients, and siblings alike. Through our Emotional Therapy & Support Program, families receive practical tools to cope with uncertainty and move forward with strength.
Individual
Therapy
Therapists help patients process medical experiences, transforming anxiety into coping strategies.
Family
Counseling
Guidance rebuilding communication disrupted by crisis, teaching families to support each other.
Crisis
Intervention
Emergency emotional support during diagnosis, setbacks, or overwhelming despair.
Sibling
Programs
Age-appropriate support helping brothers and sisters maintain emotional health during family crisis.
With professional psychological support, families can stabilize, communicate, and cope — reducing long-term emotional damage.
Real Families, Real Healing
I didn’t know how to explain to my son that his brother might not make it. I was falling apart. Or Lacholeh sent someone to talk to both of us. We cried. We breathed. And we didn’t feel alone anymore.
Miriam
Mother of Yaakov, age 5
Families navigating medical trauma need consistent support
$283,687
will keep professional mental health care within reach.
When Medical Crisis Becomes Emotional Crisis
Serious illness brings ongoing medical stress into a home. Parents develop anxiety, depression, and emotional exhaustion from constant decision-making and fear. Ill children experience psychological distress, sometimes refusing treatment because they are overwhelmed. Siblings show behavioral and emotional changes as attention shifts to the child who is sick.
Over time, parents have little energy left for their relationship. Marital strain increases as couples focus on survival, not connection. Without intervention, families can begin to drift apart while still trying to function..
$100
provides emergency crisis counseling when families receive devastating news
$250
funds weekly therapy helping children cooperate with medical procedures
$500
gifts family therapy, preventing divorce during medical stress
$750
enables comprehensive psychological support for an entire family
All Programs
Broken Hearts Need Emotional Care
Don’t let psychological wounds become permanent scars
