Religious Trauma in Therapy with Devora Shabtai, LCSW- PhD Candidate

Do you bring up the religious trauma with your clients or that's something you don't discuss?

Devora Shabtai is a PhD Candidate and currently serves as the Vice President of Clinical Programming at Onward Living, an addiction rehabilitation program for Jewish men in Boca Raton, Florida. Devora specializes in the treatment of addiction and spiritual/religious trauma, as well as clinical program design that is tailored to meet the clinical and cultural needs of members of the Orthodox Jewish community within both inpatient and outpatient levels of care.  Alongside clinical work, Devora has a background in evidence-based research and her current doctoral research is examining spiritual/religious identity development and its relationship to mental health.

For further discussion reach out to Devorah at dshabtai@onwardliving.org