To Whom It may concern,
I am a 54 year old M to F Transsexual woman . I was in psychotherapy from 8--99 until 11-09 witth Dr. Aviva Sinvaney Nubel when she resided in NJ.
I am putting down my experience and impressions of Dr Nubel for those who wish to know her better.
From the very first hour I sat down in session with Dr. Nubel I realized that I was with someone like I had never met before; or had ever encountered in my 15 previous years of seeking professional guidance for a host of problems,the formost of which was undiagnoised gender dyspjoria,and alcoholism.
Dispite 25 years of chronic drinking ,Dr. Nubel was the only professional in that time that seemed to offer any hope for my problems.
[I was a daughting task for both of us. I t was Dr.Nubel who took me through 8 years of healing and finally through the crucible of my Gender issues,and a host of co-morbidities through the use of medication,and rational emotive therapy.
It was Dr.Nubel who finally helped me arrest 30+ years of self distructive drinking and behaviors.happily I have remained sober these last 7 years in the fellowship of AA.
She brought me to the place in my life where I was able to understand for the first time who and what I am,enabling me to live a sane and peaceful life.
It has been my pleasure to watch as Dr. Nubel has wrought the same remarkable changes in the lives of hundreds of transgendered patients,many of them from all over the United States,Europe,and Canada.
We all share one thing in common that we were all brought to a more,sane,and rational life.
All of this accomplished through the petite frame of this remarkable Israili woman.It is impossible to understand Dr, Nubel through the common,mundane lens of the typical doctor patient dynamic.In Dr.
Nubel we are dealing with that singular person;set apart not just by her education,experience and life long pursuit of healing for the Transgendered Community,but indeed by her unparelled devotion and innovation in her treatment of these patients.
Dr. Nubel’s gifts cannot be attained through the usual routes of study,experience,and practice.Her personal attributes are at the core of her genius with the treatment of these problems.She displays an almost’ mystically intuitive’grasp of the suffering,and feelings of those she treats.She has the uncanny ability to ‘actualize’ for herself the very ‘skin’ of the transgendered experience enabling her to achieve incredible empathy with those she treats.
The most baffling thing about Dr.Nubel is her seemingly total lack of interest in egoist ambition.or the pursuit of financial gain.
To the contrary I have watched for years as she sacrificed her own time,money,and sometimes health in the intense devotion that she expends in pursuit of the happiness of her patients.
Dr. Nubel ‘s career is not Dr. Nubel. It is,and remains in two words, her patients .I have watched as she has helped some of the most troubled human beings imaginable,oft times quite disagreeable,and reacting to a cluster of behavioral problems.She has consistently extended to them the same superior care as any of her more monertarily fortunate,and pleasant.
I have never witnessed a single moment where that was contradicted,as I have befriended many of her patients over time.
Two words that sum up this brilliant,humane,humorous,tireless advocate of transgendered health and well being.They are devotion,as I have noted throughout this letter,and a word that is too often given short thrift in modern thought; Honor.
Dr. Nubel is the emitome of it’s very essence. Here is a woman who has consistently championed the unchampioned,heralded the unheralded,and relieved the unrelivable.In this she stands amongsest that rare few genius’ that change the very dynamic of Doctor /Patient relationship as regards her unique comprehension of the Transgendered Community.
I personally owe all I am,all I have,or all I can ever have to this woman.She is the single most pivotal human being in my entire life.I fear I. shall never be able to repay her the debt I owe her which cannot be summed up in dollars and cents alone.
This incredible woman has not only freed me from the prison of my own flesh,but has opened the doors tofreedom and cast off the tyranny of my mind and soul to a life previously undreamt of ,and restored my lost humanity.Nothing can repay such a gift.I thank her for her lasting contribution to my happiness and well being.
Sincerely Karen M. Wagner
97 Main Ave, Ocean grove,NJ 07756
tel:732 6853774