About Devorah
Devorah Knaff is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 11 years of professional experience in California. She focuses on anxiety along with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and stress. She approaches work with people who are facing life changes and emotional strain with straightforward support.
Devorah emphasizes clients' own strengths and lived knowledge as the starting point for change. Her sessions center on listening and helping people tell their stories honestly.
Background and approach
She uses approaches that let people reflect on patterns, values, and meaning to make choices that feel right for them. Conversations often include practical steps to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and improve sleep. Devorah draws on client-centered ideas to follow what matters most to each person.
Narrative and Jungian perspectives help people look at the stories and symbols that shape their feelings and behavior. Motivational interviewing can help when someone feels stuck and wants to find clearer motivation to change. She works with a wide range of concerns such as parenting strain, attachment and abandonment issues, fertility and fatherhood challenges, chronic illness, and questions about gender and identity.
She also supports people dealing with life purpose, isolation, guilt, shame, and hoarding challenges. Sessions are offered in English and use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Starting is done by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session based on availability.
How approach and online care come together
Devorah uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to each person, prioritizing the client's own goals and perspective. This helps when someone wants a therapist who listens first and then supports practical next steps.She also draws on narrative therapy, which looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their lives. That approach can help untangle patterns that increase anxiety or make relationships feel stuck.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Devorah treats the choice of methods as collaborative and will discuss what fits your needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts the mix of conversation and practical tools as you go.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and deeper verbal and nonverbal feedback. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Chat and messaging can suit brief check-ins, ongoing processing between sessions, or people who communicate better in writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to stay consistent with care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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
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