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LMFT

Devorah Knaff, LMFT

  • Experience11 years
  • LocationCalifornia
  • Focus areasLGBT, Relationship, and Family
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Devorah

Devorah Knaff is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 11 years of clinical experience helping people navigate relationship, family, and identity concerns.

Background and approach

She brings a respectful, client-centered stance that honors each person as the expert on their own life while offering clinical tools drawn from psychodynamic, Jungian, existential, narrative, and motivational approaches. Her work often addresses trauma and abuse, grief and loss, anxiety and depression, and intimacy-related challenges, as well as relationship conflicts and issues important to LGBT clients.

Devorah aims to create a collaborative space where strengths are noticed and leveraged to confront difficult moments like abandonment, attachment wounds, fertility and parenting struggles, chronic illness, and life transitions. She also attends to a range of focused concerns including anger, sleeping difficulties, career questions, hoarding, and isolation.

Clients can expect a supportive yet thoughtful stance that blends exploration of personal meaning with practical steps toward change. Devorah welcomes the courage it takes to begin therapy and helps people chart a path forward grounded in their values and goals.

Therapeutic pathways online - exploring parts and person-centered care

Internal Family Systems (IFS) frames difficulties as arising from different internal parts that hold emotions, memories, or protective roles; online work with IFS can help people witness and unblend from reactive parts to access a calmer, centered self. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and the client's own expertise in making meaning, helping people feel heard and supported while they explore choices and values.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their needs and goals. Sessions are conversational and exploratory, with the therapist offering different lenses and techniques while honoring client preferences and pacing.

Online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to engage in therapy from home or other accessible settings. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around busy schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or geographic constraints, while allowing licensed professionals to adapt interventions to the format that works best for the client.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
She works with a wide range of issues including LGBT matters, relationship and family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, stress, intimacy-related problems, parenting and career concerns, and coping with life changes.
What is the therapeutic style and approach?
The approach is collaborative and client-centered, drawing on narrative, psychodynamic, Jungian, existential, and motivational interviewing methods to explore meaning, patterns, and practical change strategies.
How much clinical experience does the therapist have?
She has 11 years of professional work experience providing therapy in California and has supported clients across a diverse range of issues.
What are the therapist's credentials and where are they based?
She is licensed as an LMFT in California with license number CA LMFT 53641 and practices with clients located in California.
Does the therapist provide services in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available for meetings?
Clients may meet through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preference and scheduling.
How does pricing and payment work for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGrief

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyIntimacy-related issuesSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesDepressionCoping with life changes

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesBlended family issuesChronic pain, illness, and disabilityDomestic violenceFamily of origin issuesFatherhood issuesFertility issuesForgivenessGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameHoardingIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMood disordersMulticultural concernsObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationSelf-harmSexual assault and abuseSexualityWomen's issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyExistential TherapyJungian TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

11+ years

Licensed

California

Languages

English