About Devorah
Devorah Knaff is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with 11 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people navigate relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, and issues that affect identity and intimacy.
Background and approach
She values clients' strengths and treats each person as the expert on their own story. She helps people address anxiety, depression, grief, and stress in straightforward ways.
She also supports work on parenting challenges, sleep problems, anger, and major life changes. Presenting issues such as fertility, adoption and foster care questions, and chronic illness are also within her focus.
Her approach is collaborative and respectful. Sessions emphasize listening, clarifying what matters most, and building on practical strengths.
Motivational interviewing and client-centered methods are used to help people find direction and make choices that fit their values. Devorah also draws on narrative and Jungian ideas to look at personal stories, meaning, and patterns that shape behavior.
This can help people reframe painful events and imagine new possibilities. She integrates these perspectives to tailor the work to each person’s needs.
People meet with her by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are scheduled through a subscription plan that may be canceled at any time.
She works in English and does not provide services to international clients at this time.
How her therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting each person to find their own solutions; it helps with relationship issues, anxiety, and making personal choices. Existential Therapy looks at meaning, values, and how people face life’s big questions; it can help with grief, life purpose, and coping with major transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then adapt methods as needed. The process is collaborative so the approach can shift as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for interactive conversations and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or when someone prefers to write rather than speak. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, parenting, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English