Dafna
Lender
25 years of experience working with families as an expert in family therapy, teacher, and supervisor specializing in attachment.
Dafna Lender is a family therapy expert, attachment specialist, and international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), as well as an EMDR therapist.
Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families in many settings: at-risk after-school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care, and private practice. Her style, whether as a therapist or teacher, combines the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense and passionate presence to every encounter. Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2023) and the co-author of Theraplay the Practitioner’s Guide (2020).
She teaches and supervises clinicians in 15 countries in 4 languages: English, Hebrew, French and Spanish.
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