About Us

Therapeutic Approach

• I offer a structured, goal-oriented and results-focused therapeutic process.
• I integrate a wide range of modalities according to the client’s needs and preferences.
  One of my areas of expertise and PASSION is healing The Inner Child.
• Clients often experience positive emotional shifts early in the therapeutic process.

Psychological modalities I use in therapy:

• CBT
• DBT
• EMDR
• IFS
• Somatic Experiencing through the institute of Dr Peter Levine
• Ego State Therapy
• Clinical Hypnotherapy
• Play Therapy
• Creative Expressive Art Therapy including dance therapy, music therapy, enactment, clay work, collage, storytelling and painting
• EFT Tapping
• Dance therapy

Emotional Assessments for Children and Teens

• I offer deep emotional assessments, which take about two to three sessions, online and in person, for children and teens from the age of 5 on.
• These assessments explore the child’s subconscious and reveal clearly what is troubling them, which may include worries, internal conflict, insecurities, difficult relationships and limiting beliefs, as well as their assets and strengths.
• After the assessment, I provide clear and practical feedback to parents that helps them understand the underlying issues beneath the child’s mood or behaviour.
• I then offer step-by-step parental guidance with practical tools for the parents, the child and the extended system (school, extended family). Parents usually walk out happy and with a sense of clarity.
• Parents regularly describe these sessions as eye-opening and transformative.
• We then discuss if there is a need for me or for someone else to continue therapy with the child or the adolescent.

Areas of Specialization

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Trauma
• Healing the inner child
• OCD
• Insecurity and emotional sensitivity
• Low self-esteem, confidence and self-worth
• Anger management
• Family conflict including parent-child conflict, sibling tension and marital strain
• Behavioural challenges
• Bed-wetting and soiling
• Eating and sleeping difficulties
• Tics and hair-pulling
• Phobias
• Grief
• Addictions
• Chronic pain
• Exam stress and school-related emotional challenges

Professional Roles and Contributions

• International lecturer and workshop presenter.
• I present courses for parents, teachers, principals, therapists and community groups.
• I have been featured on radio and television discussing trauma, depression, anxiety, inner child healing, parenting and emotional resilience.
• I have contributed to magazine articles on trauma, abuse, ADHD, parenting and family systems.
• I trained therapists at the Teddy Bear Clinic, South Africa’s national centre for child sexual abuse.

Personal Background

I was born in Israel and I am a mother of five. I now live and practice in South Africa, where I continue to develop my work and my writing. I am currently working on a series of children’s books that focus on emotional development as well as a self-help book for adults based on my SHIP Model. I am deeply passionate about the therapeutic process and feel it is a genuine privilege to walk alongside people on their journey of healing, growth and emotional evolvement, especially since I had to work extensively on healing my own inner child. My work is based on many years of study, personal experience, and working with over 2,500 clients whom I have worked with over the years.

I sincerely believe in every person’s ability to transform and that this transformation should not last over an extended period.
For more information about me please visit www.drdvori.com