Afshan Khalid
(she/her)
I am a licensed professional mental health therapist. I love my job and am passionate about helping individuals and families navigate through obstacles and difficulties they are facing. I help clients relate their thoughts, feelings, and actions and empower them to make positive choices to reach their highest potential. I work from a strengths-based perspective and encourage clients to play an active role in their own treatment. I utilize a holistic approach to therapy, pulling from various approaches, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy and client-centered therapy.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
To develop the rapport with the client and develop treatment goals
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I have several years of experience working with individuals struggling with addiction and substance abuse, anxiety, depression, emotional management, grief and loss, emotional dysregualtion issues, trauma, and other life challenges.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I personalize treatment for each client's needs. While creating a warm, non-judgmental environment, I collaborate with the client to increase hope for change and optimism based on the work that we do together in therapy.
Specialties
Top specialties
Anxiety
Depression
Substance Misuse
Other specialties
Anger Management
Bipolar Disorder
Chronic Illness
I identify as
Asian / Asian American
Woman
Serves ages
Adults (18 to 64)
Elders (65 and above)
Licensed in
Delaware
Accepts
Aetna
Location
Virtual
My treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I have more than 7 years of experience with anxiety, trauma, depression, parenting and family concerns, and ADHD and learning struggles with adults, adolescents, and children in a wide variety of clinical settings using evidence-based treatments. Together, we can create a plan and course for treatment tailored to your individual concerns.My experience is mainly in CBT, DBT and EMDR therapy for PTSD and traumatic experiences. CBT is a behavioral modification therapy which is a type of psychotherapy that uses goal-oriented talk therapy to help clients in manage their mental health conditions, emotional concerns, and psychological health conditions.
EMDR
I use EMDR therapy for traumatic past experiences and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The population, I work with from the ages of 16 yr-old onwards.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Mindfulness is based of staying in a moment and develop coping skills to work in past and plans for future with a new mindset.
1 rating with written reviews
March 10, 2025
Last session, we decided on trying to relax or decompress. I have been more aware of this since then, but I feel like I want to work on different things. Possibly forgiving myself for my marriage or belief that I am good enough and able to see the value in myself.