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Dr. Ofra Nir Schaham

Marriage, Family & Individual Therapy | Teaching & Clinical Supervision


"Our quality of life is determined by our close relationships"

My therapeutic commitment is to help people look at their Family of Origin with compassion, honor, and appreciation.


Dr. Ofra Nir Schaham is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Pennsylvania USA, and Israel, with over 25 years of work experience. She is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), and a clinical member and approved supervisor in the Israeli AMFT.
 
Dr. Nir Schaham is a faculty in Tel-Aviv University, and teaches courses in psychology and family, one of them is “The Patient’s Family”. Ofra offers seminars and lectures on this topic to mental health institutions and clinicians.
 
  In her private practice in Tel-Aviv, Ofra sees clients with diverse issues and challenges using the philosophy and principles of Contextual Therapy. Ofra studied under the renowned Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, the founder of Contextual Therapy who also mentored her graduate thesis and provided clinical supervision during her internship.

A Peek into Contextual Therapy

Entitlement principle

The delicate balance between give & take as the basis for healthy family and relationships

Trust principle

For the individual and the family system wellbeing 

Loyalty principle

As a powerful motivator in the human family

Customers recommend

Yehudit Eitan, Clalit Health Services

Dr. Ofra Shaham conducts workshops and professional groups in the field of family therapy. When I was the Director of Pediatric Occupational Therapy at Clalit Health Services, Tel Aviv District, we invited Ofra to conduct a workshop of several sessions that included training and accompaniment of the therapeutic team. The team benefited from these workshops in an extraordinary way! The perspective on the relationships within the family, on the ability of each of the therapists to empower the parents so that these strengths would promote the child's functioning - were immediately expressed in the field. Furthermore, each of the therapists also benefited from the workshop personally.
It was an empowering professional experience.
Thank you, Ofra

Tzipi Cohen, Art Therapist, Ministry of Education

As part of the course "The Patient's Family" led by Ofra - at the Pisga Center in Modi'in, I became aware of important content concerning the patient and his family. Alongside the professional contribution, I gained a significant personal experience through the content processed in the final thesis dealing with the nuclear personal family. This work allowed me to touch on content concerning my family, intergenerational patterns, some of which were hidden from me and it seems to me that without the course I would not have been exposed to them.
I am deeply grateful to Ofra for this course, which continues to resonate in my life.

Hadas, Hebrew University

Hello Ofra,
I wanted to say that the course was excellent, I enjoyed it very much, I felt that it gave us another perspective on treatment that is very important (if not the most important). Only in the last year have I been able to step into the parents' shoes and understand them more, and the course has sharpened points that had already emerged from the field and added to them.

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