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Dvora specializes in children, teens, and adults, couples, and families with ADHD, learning disabilities, neurodiversity, phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Dvora is a lifelong learner who approaches challenges and setbacks as opportunities for growth, reflection, and deeper understanding. Her values are rooted in her Jewish identity, with Torah serving as a living guide for ethical clarity, compassion, and personal responsibility.
Dvora moved to Israel with her parents and siblings at the age of thirteen, becoming Torah observant during her first year there. Over time, she explored a range of customs and communities before choosing a Lubavitch path, one that continues to inform her spiritual and professional life. Her connection to Israel has remained constant, with regular visits over the past fifty years serving as a source of renewal and grounding.
Dvora’s original plan to teach English literature gradually evolved into a calling toward helping professions. After pausing early career plans to raise a family, she sought guidance from the Lubavitcher Rebbe in her late twenties—guidance that led her to enroll in a Marriage and Family Therapy master’s program. When faced with the risk of losing required clinical hours, she worked as a social worker in an inner-city setting, gaining invaluable real-world experience. She ultimately completed her licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California sixteen years after beginning her formal training.
Later, Dvora stepped away from clinical work to homeschool one of her children, a transition that opened the door to a second professional chapter as a special education teacher. After nine years teaching in an inner-city middle school, she moved into private tutoring and then educational therapy. In August 2020, Dvora returned to clinical practice as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, bringing with her decades of personal, educational, and professional experience.
Dvora’s therapeutic approach is grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS) and is collaborative, curious, and compassionate. Her work is informed by a balance of warmth and discernment, offering clients both emotional safety and thoughtful structure. She integrates somatic awareness, attachment theory, mindfulness, playfulness when appropriate, cognitive-behavioral tools, and select elements of Jewish mystical thought—always with care, restraint, and respect for each client’s pace and inner wisdom.
Dvora Kravitz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 35915) in the State of California.