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DAFNA LENDER, LCSW

Unlocking Emotional Synchrony in Parent-Child Relationships
Help parents discover the transformative power of connection in their relationship with their child. Integrative attachment family therapy (IAFT) developer Dafna Lender shares insights on how parents can learn to align with their child’s emotional state to foster a sense of love and belonging.

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Understanding the Four Phases of Integrated Attachment Family Therapy (IAFT)
Integrated Attachment Family Therapy (IAFT) offers a powerful mental health intervention that can help families to heal. IAFT expert Dafna Lender walks you through the IAFT phases, providing therapeutic insight and free worksheets to help families achieve meaningful and lasting change.

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Ask the Expert: Q&A with Dafna Lender, LCSW
Renowned family therapy expert and attachment specialist, Dafna Lender, LCSW, introduces her new book that Dr. Peter Levine calls “the vanguard of treatments to heal and strengthen attachment issues in the parent child relationship.”

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Dafna Lender, LCSW, 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) and an EMDR therapist. 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. Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2023) and co-author of Theraplay® - The Practitioner’s Guide (2020).