(she/her)
You may be here because you’re navigating challenges like depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, or major life transitions. Changes in home, school, work, relationships, or experiences like foster care and family disruption can leave you feeling overwhelmed or disconnected. I specialize in supporting women, adolescents, and children, with expertise in trauma, grief, life transitions, and child welfare–related experiences. I help clients identify barriers, build coping skills, and move toward healing and resilience. As an Arabic-speaking therapist, I understand the importance of language and cultural connection in the healing process. I am dedicated to creating a safe, compassionate space where my clients feel genuinely heard and supported as they navigate their unique journeys. My approach is rooted in person-centered care, ensuring that every session is tailored to you. Together, we will create a space where you feel truly seen and heard, free from judgment. Whether you are struggling with depression, anxiety, unresolved grief, or navigating a major life transition, I am here to walk alongside you. If you’re ready to take the next step, I encourage you to reach out. Let’s have a conversation about how I can support you.
In a first session with me, clients can expect a warm, welcoming, and structured experience designed to help them feel comfortable while laying the groundwork for therapy.
One of my greatest strengths as a therapist is my ability to balance insight with practical change. I integrate evidence-based approaches such as CBT with attachment-based and psychodynamic perspectives to help clients understand the root of their challenges while also developing concrete skills to manage emotions, thoughts, and relationships. I provide a warm, attuned, and nonjudgmental therapeutic space where clients feel safe exploring vulnerable experiences. I am especially skilled at identifying relational patterns, attachment dynamics, and unhelpful beliefs that keep clients feeling stuck. Clients often report increased self-awareness, improved emotional regulation, and stronger, more secure relationships as a result of our work together.
I am best positioned to support women, adolescents, and children seeking emotional healing, deeper self-understanding, and practical tools for meaningful change. I work with clients navigating anxiety, stress, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, grief, and patterns that leave them feeling stuck or disconnected. I have a particular specialty in working with individuals who have been involved in the child welfare system, including those with experiences of foster care, family separation, reunification, adoption-related complexity, or system-related trauma. I understand how these experiences can shape attachment, trust, identity, self-worth, and relationships in profound ways. I provide a safe, supportive space to process these impacts, heal from relational wounds, and build resilience. I work well with clients who may appear high-functioning externally while struggling internally, as well as those carrying the effects of chronic stress, early adversity, or complex trauma. Many of the women, teens, and children I serve are seeking support with managing overwhelming emotions, improving boundaries and communication, strengthening self-esteem, and breaking unhelpful cycles. My approach is especially well-suited for women, adolescents, and children who want therapy to be both compassionate and active—offering insight, collaboration, and practical strategies. Whether clients are healing from past experiences, navigating current challenges, or pursuing personal growth, my goal is to help them feel understood, empowered, and equipped to move forward.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help individuals, couples, and families understand how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact. CBT allows us to identify unhelpful thinking patterns, challenge beliefs that contribute to distress, and develop practical coping and communication skills. I take a collaborative, goal-oriented approach, helping clients apply these tools in daily life to create meaningful and sustainable change in relationships and emotional well-being.
Attachment-based
I use an attachment-based approach to help clients understand how early relationships shape emotional patterns, expectations, and connection in current relationships. By exploring attachment needs and relational dynamics, we work to strengthen emotional safety, improve communication, and foster more secure and satisfying bonds with self and others.
Psychodynamic
I incorporate psychodynamic therapy to help clients gain insight into unconscious patterns, past experiences, and relational themes that influence present-day thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Through reflection and exploration of emotional experiences, this approach supports deeper self-understanding, emotional growth, and lasting change.