Devorah Knaff, LMFT

Devorah Knaff is a California-based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 11 years of professional experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life's challenges. She offers informed, compassionate care for a wide range of concerns including LGBTQ+ related issues, relationship difficulties, family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, parenting and intimacy-related struggles. As an LMFT, she brings training in relational and systemic approaches that honor the connections between people and their environments.

Devorah approaches therapy from a strengths-based perspective, believing that each person is the expert of their own story and carries resources that can support change and healing. She works collaboratively to identify goals, explore patterns, and build skills that fit each client's life and values. Her practice is grounded in empathy and respect while remaining focused on practical, meaningful steps forward.

Recognizing that starting therapy often takes courage, Devorah affirms that seeking support is an important first move. She aims to create a welcoming space where clients feel heard and empowered to address relationship concerns, trauma, identity questions, parenting challenges, and other life transitions.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Devorah draws from client-centered therapy, existential therapy, and narrative therapy to tailor online care to each person's needs. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathy and unconditional positive regard, creating a nonjudgmental space where clients lead the pace and focus of work; this approach is helpful for building self-esteem, working through relationship concerns, and addressing anxiety and depression.

Existential therapy invites exploration of meaning, values, and personal responsibility, which can be useful for clients facing life transitions, questions about purpose, or identity-related concerns. Narrative therapy helps clients separate themselves from problems by examining the stories they tell about their lives and developing alternative, more empowering narratives - a useful method for addressing trauma, shame, and patterns that affect relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Devorah works collaboratively with clients to identify what fits best based on their goals, preferences, and life circumstances, and she adapts methods as progress unfolds.

Online sessions - by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - offer flexibility that can make consistent care easier to maintain. These formats allow clients to access licensed professionals from their own communities, schedule appointments around work and family demands, and continue therapy through life changes.