Zahra Adloo
Zahra Adloo
(she/her)
Hi, I’m Zahra Adloo, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) dedicated to helping individuals navigate trauma, addiction, PTSD, and major life transitions. My approach is eclectic and client-centered, meaning I tailor each session to your unique needs using solution-focused, narrative, existential, and psychodynamic therapies. Whether you're working through past wounds, seeking clarity in your relationships, or striving for personal growth, I provide a safe, compassionate space where you can explore, heal, and reclaim your authentic self.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In our first session, clients can expect a warm, non-judgmental space where they can share their story at their own pace. I’ll take time to understand your goals, challenges, and what brought you to therapy, while also exploring past experiences that may be shaping your present. We’ll discuss what you’re hoping to get out of therapy, and I’ll introduce my eclectic approach, tailoring our work to best support your healing and growth. Most importantly, this session is about building trust, creating safety, and ensuring you feel heard and understood as we begin this journey together.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
One of my greatest strengths as a provider is my ability to create a deeply safe and non-judgmental space where clients feel truly seen and heard. I take an eclectic, client-centered approach, allowing me to tailor therapy to each individual’s unique needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all model. My background in trauma, addiction recovery, PTSD, and psychedelic integration enables me to guide clients through deep healing work with both compassion and directness. I also specialize in working with individuals who intellectualize emotions as a coping mechanism, helping them reconnect with their authentic selves through mind-body awareness, somatic work, and self-exploration.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I am best positioned to serve adults navigating trauma, addiction recovery, PTSD, anxiety, OCD, and major life transitions. Many of my clients are individuals who have tried traditional therapy but seek a deeper, integrative approach that includes mind-body connection, psychedelic integration, and holistic healing modalities. I also work well with those who tend to intellectualize emotions as a coping mechanism and are ready to reconnect with their authentic selves on a deeper level. Whether you're healing from past wounds, breaking free from destructive patterns, or seeking clarity in your relationships, I provide a safe, non-judgmental space to support your growth.
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Eclectic
I take an eclectic approach to therapy, meaning I tailor my methods to fit the unique needs of each client rather than adhering to a single therapeutic framework. My experience has shown that healing isn’t one-size-fits-all, so I integrate elements from multiple evidence-based modalities to best support my clients. In my practice, I primarily draw from: ✔ Solution-Focused Therapy – To help clients identify strengths and actionable steps toward change. ✔ Narrative Therapy – To assist clients in reframing their personal stories and breaking free from limiting beliefs. ✔ Existential Therapy – To explore meaning, purpose, and personal responsibility in life. ✔ Psychodynamic Therapy – To uncover and process unconscious patterns rooted in past experiences. This flexible, integrative approach allows me to adapt sessions based on a client’s goals, personality, and progress, ensuring they receive the most effective care possible. Whether someone is working through trauma, addiction, life transitions, or relational challenges, my eclectic method creates space for personalized, meaningful transformation.
EMDR
EMDR is a powerful, evidence-based treatment method designed to help people process and heal from trauma, anxiety, phobias, and deeply held negative beliefs. It works by activating the brain’s natural ability to reprocess distressing memories and shift the emotional charge they carry—often leading to rapid relief and long-term resolution. In my practice, I use EMDR with clients who are struggling with the emotional residue of past experiences—whether it's childhood trauma, panic attacks, relationship wounds, or sudden life events that left them feeling stuck, unsafe, or not good enough.
Strength-Based
Strength-based therapy is rooted in the belief that every person has inner resources, resilience, and wisdom—sometimes buried beneath pain, but always present. Rather than focusing solely on what’s “wrong,” this approach helps clients reconnect to what’s strong. In my practice, I use a strength-based lens to highlight your capacities, values, coping strategies, and lived wisdom, even in the midst of struggle. Whether we’re exploring trauma, anxiety, identity, or relationships, I’m always asking: What’s already working? What strengths have helped you survive? How can we build on that?
Existential
Existential therapy is a meaning-centered approach that explores the core questions of human existence—freedom, identity, purpose, uncertainty, and the reality of loss. It’s not about fixing or labeling, but about helping clients explore what it means to be fully alive in the face of the unknown. In my practice, I draw from existential therapy to support clients who are navigating life transitions, loss, anxiety, identity shifts, spiritual inquiry, or a sense of disconnection from themselves or the world. Rather than rushing to solutions, we create space for the deeper questions: Who am I becoming? What truly matters to me? What does it mean to live authentically, especially in a world I can’t control?
Transpersonal
Transpersonal therapy is a spiritually integrative approach that honors the full spectrum of human experience, including altered states, peak moments, ancestral insight, intuition, and the longing for meaning beyond the self. It invites healing not just on a psychological level, but also on a soul level. In my practice, I weave in transpersonal elements to support clients who are navigating spiritual awakenings, psychedelic integration, identity expansion, grief, or a sense of being called into something deeper than traditional talk therapy often allows.