Playful | Present | Passionate
Dafna is an 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). Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care and private practice. Dafna’s style, whether as a therapist or teacher, is combining the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense and passionate presence to every encounter. She is as likely to break out into song as engage in serious intellectual discourse.
Integrated Attachment Family Therapy (IAFT) was developed by family therapy expert and attachment specialist Dafna Lender. Instead of viewing the child as the problem, IAFT addresses the crux of the issue: a misalignment in the parent-child relationship.
In this treatment guide, Dafna walks readers through the IAFT framework, providing therapeutic insight and concrete strategies to help families achieve meaningful and lasting change.
Order now! →Join Dafna Lender for a 5-day course on Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, an approach which assists therapists and other professionals to understand and effectively support children, young people and their families.
LEVEL 1
October 17, 18, 19, 23, 24 (Registration FULL)
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM (Central Time, USA & Canada)
January 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 2024
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM (Central Time, USA & Canada)
LEVEL 2
December 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 2023
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM (Central Time, USA & Canada)
If you’re interested in learning more about intergenerational trauma, check out my course with Therapy Wisdom, Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma: Helping Your Clients Heal Attachment Wounds Through Parent-Child Relationships. This self-paced, three hour course teaches you:
The P.A.C.E. Attitude and how you can apply it
Techniques to build a healing and connected relationship with a parent and their child
How improving the relationship between parent and child helps adults with their own childhood history
RESOURCES
Check out the latest interview with Guy Macpherson on his podcast The Trauma Therapist Project. They talked about Dafna's work with kids and families, her approach, experience and much more.
Listen Now →Sit down with Dafna Lender as she shares with you conversations with 3 different experts: Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, and Bessel van der Kolk.
Theraplay is an intervention that focuses on enhancing the connection, trust and joy between a child and a parent. It involves interactive, playful activities using simple face-to-face reciprocal interactions, and involves using all of the senses, including rhythm, movement and touch.
Learn More →Gain access now!! The Deliberate Dialogue: A method for facilitating effective conversation with a parent and child about potentially stressful topics
The way you position your body when interacting with your child can have more of an impact than you might think.
Following the tragic Highland Park Parade shooting, Dafna visited a Highland Park school to provide emotional support.
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