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Dvora specializes in children, teens, and adults, couples, and families with ADHD, learning disabilities, phobias, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Dvora is a lifelong learner who sees setbacks as an opportunity. Dvora’s values are founded on her Jewish identity and Torah as a guide for life.
Dvora moved to Israel with her parents and siblings when she was thirteen. Dvora became Torah observant in that first year in Israel. Dvora experimented with a variety of customs and communities until she chose to be Lubavitch. Dvora’s connection to Israel never wavered, and she continued to visit and recharge her spiritual batteries over the past fifty years.
Dvora’s original plan to teach English literature was modified to a plan to be a social worker. Plans to be a social worker were put on hold to start a family. Dvora sought advice from the Lubavitcher Rebbe in her late 20’s, which led to enrolling in a Marriage and Family Therapy Master’s program. Threatened with losing professional experience hours, Dvora took a job as a social worker in the inner city. Dvora completed her license as a Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California, sixteen years after starting her coursework. Dvora took a break from working as an LMFT to homeschool one of her children, which led to a new career as a special education teacher. After nine years in an inner-city middle school, Dvora started working as a tutor and then Educational Therapist. Dvora resumed working as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in August 2020.
Dvora’s approach is collaborative, curious, and compassionate. Dvora synthesizes cognitive behavioral therapy with play, mindfulness, somatic awareness, internal family systems, attachment, and some Jewish mysticism.
Dvora Kravitz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 35915) in the State of California.