Our Partnerships
Advot collaborates with trusted organizations to co-create evidence-based healing methods, that offer support for warriors and their families.
Meet the Founders
Advot was born from lived experience and collective purpose, founded by a passionate team united in a shared mission to heal trauma.
Patsy Alacantar
Founder & CEO
Gilor Damri
Co-founder
Beatrice Cohen
Founder & CEO Advah
Daniel J Rezende
Co-founder & Medical Director Advah
Where Warriors Come Home to Themselves
Advot is a team based sea therapy program. Advot restores healing through the sea, integrative care, and the strength of intact military teams.
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About Us
We provide marine-based trauma healing for soldiers and first responders through structured sea immersion, team-strength practices, and guided integration for families and support networks. While the Post Traumatic Growth model shapes our foundation, we weave in additional therapeutic and behavioral frameworks to support meaningful, lasting transformation.
Our Mission
Our mission is simple, to turn lived experience into a lighthouse for others, and to show that trauma, when held well, can become a source of strength, meaning, and renewed service.
Our Vision
Advot envisions a world where Israeli soldiers and their families heal together in a supportive, thriving community, finding purpose, connection, and strength after trauma.
The Program
The program moves warriors through the five stages of post-traumatic growth. Through structured ocean immersion, somatic regulation, and team-based healing, participants shed old patterns, rebuild trust in their bodies, and rise into a new sense of strength and purpose.
The Advot Method combines marine sports, mind–body therapies, and clinical care in a structured, year-long journey designed for military units and their families. Through movement, narrative work, somatic tools, and connection-building experiences, we help participants rebuild safety, identity, and belonging. Our three-phase pathway (12 bi-weekly sessions, 6 monthly sessions, and peer-facilitator training) creates continuity, deep integration, and long-term change.
Dr. Edith Shiro’s 5 stage PTG model moves through awareness, awakening, becoming, being, and transforming. The stages are not linear; participants move back and forth as new insights emerge. Each stage strengthens emotional capacity, deepens perspective, and opens space for new meaning: helping individuals recognise, tolerate, and transform what they feel rather than avoid or fight it.
We view trauma not as pathology but as a doorway for growth. PTG offers a roadmap for rebuilding balance, purpose, and identity — something Israel urgently needs in the wake of ongoing conflict. By grounding our work in lived experience, clinical integrity, and communal healing, we support soldiers and families in moving beyond survival toward expansion, clarity, and renewed engagement with life. PTG is not a shortcut to resilience; it is a guided, long-term process of transformation.
Our approach blends trauma-informed clinical care, somatic therapies, and nature-based experiences. We draw from Post-Traumatic Growth, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Narrative Therapy, DBT, CBT, ACT, breathwork, and acupuncture. This multi-layered model strengthens nervous-system regulation, reduces symptom intensity, improves mind–body awareness, and restores relational connection. By integrating individual, group, partner, and family sessions throughout the year, we create a holistic ecosystem for healing supported by evidence-based outcome measures such as the SF-12, PCL-5, PTGI, wellbeing scales, PHQ-4, and ISI.
The Advot Method
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The PTG method, or Post Traumatic Growth method, is a structured approach that helps people move beyond survival and develop new strength, meaning, and purpose after trauma. The PTG method developed by Dr. Edith Shiro, guides individuals through five stages: becoming aware of their pain with compassion, rebuilding inner safety, transforming old patterns, integrating new understanding into daily life, and finally growing into a deeper, more grounded version of themselves.
The PTG method guides individuals through a structured, compassionate process that helps them move beyond survival and into meaningful, long-term growth.
1. Awareness
This stage begins when a person recognizes that they’re not okay and deserves support. Instead of fighting or judging the pain, they learn to meet it with compassion — creating the first opening for healing.
2. Safety
Here, the nervous system learns to settle. Through grounding, boundaries, breath, and somatic tools, a person rebuilds internal safety and begins restoring trust in themselves, others, and the world. This becomes the foundation for all growth.
3. Transformation
Old patterns, protective habits, and survival responses begin to shift. A person experiments with new ways of thinking, relating, and behaving that support who they want to become rather than who the trauma forced them to be.
4. Integration
In this phase, people hold multiple truths at once: “I was hurt” and “I am rebuilding.” Emotions are felt without being overwhelmed, and insights from healing are woven into daily life. The nervous system becomes more flexible, not reactive.
5. Growth
This is where new purpose, meaning, and direction emerge. Growth doesn’t mean challenges disappear; it means the person now has the tools, clarity, and inner safety to meet life from a stronger, more aligned place.
PTG is different from other therapeutic models because it focuses not only on reducing symptoms, but on helping people create meaningful growth after hardship and rewriting the narrative surrounding trauma. Instead of trying to return someone to who they were before, PTG guides them toward a stronger identity, new perspectives, deeper resilience, and a renewed sense of purpose: turning trauma into a catalyst for transformation rather than a limitation.
The PTG Method
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Meet the Founders
Advot was born from lived experience and collective purpose, founded by a passionate team united in a shared mission to heal trauma.
Patsy Alcantar
Founder & CEO
Beatrice Cohen
Co Founder and Program Director
Daniel J Rezende
Co founder and Medical Director
The Program
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In a country where every soldier's wellbeing shapes the future, healing isn't optional, it's nation building. Help us rebuild what matters most.
They fought for us, Now let's fight for them.
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The Advot Approach
Advot combines clinical expertise, therapeutic practices in the ocean, and the strength of military bonds to deliver a proven, deeply human model for recovery.
Marine Sports &
Somatic Tools
Surfing, scuba diving, paddling, kite surfing, free diving, and practices built on strength, tailored for nervous system regulation and trauma release.
Integrative
Medicine
Trauma-informed facilitation and guided clinical recovery with licensed professionals.
Team
Brotherhood
Healing intact military units to deepen trust and cohesion. Trauma recovery often pulls soldiers apart.
We heal them together.
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