DAVID KUPFER, PH.D.
David L. Kupfer, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist in Falls Church, Virginia. During his 30 years of private practice, Dr. Kupfer has focused on expanding cognitive-behavioral therapy into new territory. His clinical work has included the development of an expertise in applying CBT and mindfulness to anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, phobias, PTSD, and OCD.
A skilled speaker, Dr. Kupfer has made presentations to national audiences at meetings of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America "On Experiential Approaches" and the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation "Embracing the Devil."
Dr. Kupfer graduated from the University of Georgia's doctoral program in Clinical Psychology. He has combined academic roles at the University of Florida, Eastern Virginia Medical School, and Marymount University together with a full-time practice. In 2009, Washingtonian Magazine named him a "Top Therapist" in the Washington D.C. area.
Over the last ten years, Dr. Kupfer has made forgiveness part of his clinical work. A child of holocaust survivors, Dr. Kupfer was inspired by meeting Eva Kor, a survivor who came to forgive Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who had used her and her twin sister as research subjects at Auschwitz. Fred Luskin, PhD., of the Stanford Forgiveness Project introduced him to a system of teaching forgiveness in CBT.
Dr. Kupfer has presented forgiveness seminars to professional organizations in Virginia and federal government agencies. He has written about forgiveness for the Northern Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists Newsletter.