More About Brielle

Rabbi Dr. Brielle Paige Rassler is a licensed psychologist, ordained rabbi and spiritual director, composer, and award winning author from South Florida.

As a psychologist and spiritual counselor, Dr. Brielle has been working with individuals, families, and groups facing a variety of challenges, since 2011. She has worked at several substance abuse and eating disorder treatment centers, including Into Action Treatment, Pathway to Hope, the Renfrew Center, Penn Medicine Princeton House, and the Penn Medicine Princeton Center for Eating Disorders. Dr. Brielle has also worked with individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, and losses of all kinds. Most recently, she was the coordinator and lead therapist of the Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center Grief Counseling Program, implemented as a crisis intervention program at the start of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Brielle is currently in private practice and also provides consultation and training on the topic of Jewish Women and Eating Disorders at mental and medical health practices, educational settings, and religious settings nationwide.

In the spiritual branch of her lifetime’s deployment, Rabbi Brielle has released two albums of original music, with prayersongs that have been shared at holiday and Shabbat services across the country. She has served with the prayer leadership teams at several congregations, including Romemu and Kehillath Shalom Synagogue in New York and Mishkan Shalom and Darkeynu in Philadelphia, PA.

Rabbi Brielle has also authored a reference guide to the Talmud and a treatment manual for religiously integrated treatment of Jewish women with eating disorders. She is currently working on the third volume of her emerging book series, “A Millennial’s Poetic Interpretation.” Selections from her Psalms translation have been shared and published in a variety of compilations, including Volumes I and II of When We Turned Within: Reflections of COVID-19, and PsalmSeason. Psalms: A Millennial’s Poetic Interpretation was recently named a Gold Award Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Book Awards.

Rabbi Dr. Brielle is grateful for the miracles of modern technology that allow us to connect across times and places during this ever-unfolding Mystery. She is currently accepting new clients for psychotherapy, spiritual counseling and spiritual direction. Brielle is also available for services, concerts, and life-cycle events of all kinds, and would love the opportunity to connect and help bring a spark of Joyful Judaism to you, your family, or your community, during these times when we need it most.