Ofra Eldor, MFT

I discovered Ofra through a friend in 2012. I called her few times and spoke about my very sad story. I am French and my daughter too. We were /​I WAS manipulated by the father to come in US after the marriage in France and my girl was born in Paris and spent the first year just with me the mother… at that time, 2012, it was 2 years of divorce process when I called her for advices. We never met and Ofra was so kind and answered my questions all the time or called me back. When I told the story my daughter was in a sauna with the first vacation with her father in NY states, at 4 years old and he had asked her to be naked on him naked, I did not want to think «crazy» like any kind of mothers will do. That’s why I requested the advice of a professional. I told her Dr Fortunee Kayra– Stuart was (and still) my daughter’s therapist. She told me to trust her, she had many years of experience and knew her. She advised me to ask her to do an assessment for sexual suspicious. I had no idea what was that at that time, I did not think about a medical exam of course but a sort of special questions to see if the child was telling the true about the story maybe?! I requested that to Dr Stuart. She never did nothing and worst in 2013 when my daughter told me the story than I taped, 1 year later (because some friends were telling me «your daughter told you only to you things you said, so why don’t you tape her!?» and I did twice. My daughter told me in details the story and I present the tape in French to HER therapist and she did not want to listen… I was shocked and could not believe. She was not interested to know the true or maybe did not believe me!!?
Back to Ofra, she had been a wonderful listener to me and a generous person to help me and reassure me with the sexual suspicious, the emotional abuse and parenting alienation from the father, support by experts and the court in order to take away my daughter from me her mother. After 5 years of nightmare divorce process, I lost all: home, business, health and my dear daughter’s total legal custody and she was with me 2 nights monthly with 2 WE and few hours a week the school year 2014 – 15. In June 2015, the new mediator Alison URDAN, I will make a review about this corrupt woman soon, she took both nights away and I see my girl 2 saturdays monthly now and less hours weekly!!! My daughter is 7 years old. July 2015, I am leaving for France to take care of my health and my daughter stays here stuck with her sociopath perverse father, helped and supported by therapists, mediators and Alameda family court.
Anyway, Thank you very much to Ofra she did her best to help me. You are an extraordinary woman and an excellent professional with ethical. Merci!

This is my on-​going story of how pivotal receiving therapy from Ofra Eldor has been to my emotional health, my life, and my whole evolution.
My new employer in the later half of 2010 provided an employee benefit within the medical plan I chose, making psychotherapy with a mental health professional available. It was very good fortune that I chose that particular plan, because within three months of starting that new job I became mortally depressed. My United Behavioral Health [UBH] plan paid for nearly all of my weekly (twice weekly in the beginning) sessions.
Not only was the new job working with a terrible boss and another hostile co-​worker, my finances were in total ruin, my house was going into foreclosure, and my marriage to my beautiful young wife was dissolving within months of our wedding. .. all this and more happening at the exact same time.
That terrible day when I could not work another second, I sought help with the company psychologist. She recognized the incredible trauma I was under and instantly selected three choices (out of dozens she personally knew) for the therapist she thought had the greatest skills, caring qualities, intelligence, and reputation for successfully assisting people in enormous crises. It was great providence that I chose Ofra Eldor out of the three.
Ofra is almost always fully booked and it was extraordinary that on the same day I spoke with the company psychologist (and left my job for medical leave), Ofra had a cancellation which made an opening for me that very same day.
Even though I was in severe stress shock, I could sense that Ofra was an unusually strong person with all the patience, compassion, intuitive abilities, and superb observational skills that I would need through my painful debilitation. I also quickly learned that Ofra has an outstanding memory with the ability to recall minute details from every one of our previous conversations. Over the nearly one and one-​half years of weekly sessions I’ve had with Ofra, I continue to be amazed by her recollection of every one of the scores of names of people I’ve shared with her about my life situations.
The year from October 2010 to October 2011 saw the absolute most suffering of my entire lifetime. There were several instances where I thought I would die of a heart attack or stoke, because I had lost the will to live. It is true that a person can die of a broken heart, literally. Through it all, Ofra was always there for every session and returned all my phone calls in between sessions to give support — sometimes for an hour or more.
When my UBH plan ended because my employer medically separated me, Ofra extended a significant discount so that I could continue my weekly sessions (she knew that I had no money). She also has never charged me for all those phone calls where she basically gave me impromptu sessions.
Another critical need that I had was for Ofra to document every session, fill out tons of forms for my disability insurance claims, and talk over the phone with the disability insurance medical representatives. This activity alone has seen Ofra busy on my behalf for many, many hours outside of our sessions (and phone calls). She has done all this without the slightest protest, never charged me extra, and continues to do this for me to this day. Mostly because of Ofra’s efforts, I have received disability payments that has saved my house from foreclosure (for now) and allowed me to survive while I continue my recovery.
I am truly blessed to be a client of Ofra Eldor. Ofra is a powerhouse of psychotherapies, insights, kindness, and synergistic support.
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