- Years in practice
- 11
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- LGBT
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Devorah
Devorah Knaff is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 11 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on practical work with people facing relationship strain, parenting questions, grief, trauma, and stress. Devorah centers each session on the person's story and strengths.
She aims to make the first steps feel manageable and respectful. Devorah uses an open, listening style that helps people name what matters to them. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.
Background and approach
She helps clients clarify values, set small goals, and try out new ways of handling hard moments. This can include talking through family patterns, parenting choices, or intimacy-related concerns. Her background includes work with LGBT issues, infertility and fatherhood questions, adoption and foster care challenges, and recovery from domestic violence.
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, sleep problems, anger, and the fallout of family-of-origin wounds. Devorah pays attention to how past losses and attachment experiences shape current choices. Therapy draws on narrative, Jungian, existential, motivational interviewing, and client-centered ideas.
That means she invites people to tell their story, notice recurring themes, and identify small changes to test in daily life. Sessions blend listening, reflection, and practical steps so clients can try things between meetings. Devorah offers a calm, steady presence for people sorting major life changes.
She works with individuals who want clear, compassionate help to navigate parenting, relationships, identity questions, or grief. If a caring, collaborative approach feels right, she helps people take the next step.
What Devorah works with
Everything Devorah lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Devorah helps people with.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Devorah lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Devorah draws on client-centered therapy to keep the person's experience at the center of each session. That approach means she listens carefully, follows what matters to the client, and helps people develop their own solutions. She also uses narrative therapy to help clients reframe and retell difficult episodes so new possibilities become visible. Narrative work is useful for parenting stories, identity questions, and recovery from loss.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adjust methods over time. Together they track what helps and try different ways of working until a good fit emerges.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and messaging or chat can support short updates, practical planning, or ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, or other life demands while keeping the therapeutic focus consistent.
Questions people ask about Devorah
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps people with parenting, relationship strain, LGBT matters, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, stress, intimacy issues, sleep problems, and career or life transitions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her sessions are conversational and client-centered. She listens for strengths, explores personal narratives, and supports small, concrete changes between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has 11 years of professional experience working in clinical settings and community care, focusing on relationship and family-related concerns and trauma recovery.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a LMFT - licensed marriage and family therapist - practicing in California.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She meets through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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