Empathy, Understanding, and growth:
Attachment-Focused Therapy for Meaningful and Lasting Change
Attachment-focused psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, course developer, and educator Specialized expertise in trauma and eating disorders.
I’m Devra Igra, an attachment-focused psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and educator.
Attachment isn't just a theory—it's a framework for understanding people and creating healing relationships.
Attachment is at the centre of how I understand emotional distress, relationships, trauma, and therapeutic change. I help clients recognize how their early relational experiences have shaped their internal working model—the beliefs they hold about themselves, other people, and what they can expect from relationships.
Through a warm, nonjudgmental, and deeply relational approach, I help clients understand the origins of their struggles, develop greater emotional security, and begin changing patterns that may once have been protective but are no longer serving them.
In addition to my clinical practice, I develop and facilitate professional trainings in attachment-focused therapy, including introductory and advanced courses for clinicians.
Starting therapy, even if you have been in therapy in the past, can be scary and daunting especially when trying to find the right therapist.
Using a trauma informed and attachment focus in my therapeutic practice, I work with clients to help navigate some of life's toughest challenges and traumas. I truly care about the well-being of my clients and I am committed to helping them achieve their therapeutic goals. I create a warm, welcoming, safe, and supportive environment because I want my clients to feel comfortable opening up and being vulnerable; necessary in facilitating significant therapeutic shifts. I offer insights and perspectives and help my clients to better understand themselves, their experiences, why they feel and perceive themselves a certain way, and why they react the way they do.
I help clients build the tools needed to cope with difficult emotions and situations. Whether we are working through relationship issues, eating disorder symptoms, dealing with anxiety and depression, or simply exploring your own sense of purpose, I am there to offer guidance and support every step of the way.
Client Experiences
“Devra has created a safe and welcoming environment, from the moment I stepped into her office, I felt an immediate assurance that I was going to be ok.”
“A life-changing journey with an exceptional therapist”
“Working with Devra has been one of the most significant decisions I have made in my life”
“Devra has been an enormous aid in my search for self discovery, self acceptance and self compassion since our first sessions together”
“Devra very quickly became someone I trusted and a safe place for me, a secure attachment figure that I could be vulnerable with in ways I had never been with another human”
“I have learned a lot about myself in more ways than I ever really could have imagined”
Recommended Resources
A curated list of websites and books that I recommend to my clients.