Noor Pinna
Noor Pinna
(she/her)
As a South Asian Muslim immigrant, I understand the rebuilding process of who we are from generational trauma and patterns, as well as navigating identities that make us authentic. I am passionate about this work because I have seen clients shed their stories and step into their authentic selves when aligned. It brings me immense joy to see individuals no longer surviving but thriving. I invited you to be curious and connect to see how we can work together to help you. I look forward to your phone call.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
As your therapist, during our first session and moving forward, I want you to feel empowered, safe, able to let your guard down, held, and validated. I strive to create a warm, safe, open, compassionate, and trusting environment, infused with gentle challenge and honesty, and with a goal to nudge you inward and forward. During the first session, we will review the intake packet, discuss confidentiality, and discuss the therapy process. We will then collaborate to develop a treatment plan tailored to your needs and goals. It's normal to feel anxious coming into therapy, whether it's your first time or your 20th time, and that's okay.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I weave in aspects of EMDR, DBT, CBT, creative arts, and somatic-based approaches to help you reclaim your narrative, uncover shame, self-critical thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that impact your true self. Through this, we uncover the layers of subconscious conditioning, explore intergenerational family patterns, and communication styles. The wisdom lies in your body, and we collaborate on uncovering and utilizing tools that are appropriate to you in a compassionate and challenging space.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
Clients often come to me with concerns about how to deal with microaggression, intersectional identities, burnout, communication concerns, family and relationship dynamics, perfectionism, self-critical thoughts, imposter syndrome, stress, trauma, anxiety, grief, loss, life transitions, and struggling with shame. Working with me, many clients report letting go of people pleasing, imperfections, expectations, shame, anxiety, carrying other people's burdens, having to regulate for others, self-critical thoughts, grief, loss, releasing old family patterns and wounds, and personalizing. Many clients say they have more capacity for joy, gratefulness, better communication skills within their lives, better boundaries, more self-compassion and grace, going after opportunities, better self-care, learning to advocate for themselves, more grounding and emotional regulation, and more confidence.
About Noor Pinna
I identify as
Serves ages
Licensed in
Accepts
Appointments
VirtualMy treatment methods
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I’ve been using DBT in my practice for the past 10-plus years. Together, we use DBT to acquire skills on how to regulate your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We work on mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness ( relationship building & communication) skills. This helps my clients in providing self-compassion, learning to adapt to change, acceptance, becoming empowered and advocating and setting boundaries for their needs. I have used this modality, for example, with clients who are struggling with depression, anxiety, stress, life transitions, relationship concerns, trauma, and grief.
EMDR
I have been using EMDR for the past two years. EMDR focuses on changing the emotions, thoughts or behaviors that result from a distressing experience (trauma). This allows your brain to resume a natural healing process. In my sessions with clients on this modality, we work on various issues ranging from trauma, grief, anxiety to depression. It is a more somatic-based approach for clients who often feel that talking in sessions has helped them but need to help their body and mind process it differently.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I’ve been using CBT in my practice for the past 10-plus years. Together, we use CBT to recognize how your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence each other. This helps us in understanding your negative core self-beliefs and how that influences your emotions and behaviors. Through this recognition, we change the dialogue and rewrite the narrative. This can be helpful in increasing our self-esteem, reducing our anxiety and stress, creating an upward spiral when we feel stuck to reducing our depressive symptoms.