Hi! I'm Leyla. Welcome. I am glad you're here. Are you sick and tired of existing in a capitalistic hellscape?? The pain inside of you is reflective of the collective chaos outside of you. Your feelings are valid. 🫂 If this resonates with you, look no further. Your anti-capitalist therapist is here. I believe that healing as individuals requires recognition of the trauma of structural oppression and dominance. With this in mind, I center anti-racist + anti-oppressive, LGBTQIA+-affirming, disability justice, and intersectional feminist values into my practice. I reflect on and recognize the privileges I hold and how these have assisted me in navigating the world. The lens I look through may be of interest to you. I am a second generation immigrant settler from Lebanon/Sweden. I am Autistic, ADHD and a survivor. I am able-bodied and live with chronic illness. I am cis-gender and queer. I am a Person of the Global Majority (PoGM). I live in the colonized portion of Wabanaki territory now known as Mount Desert Island, Maine. My work is through an Intersectionality-focused lens with folx with many neurotypes. My clients are Autistic, ADHD, trauma survivors + queer folx who may experience obsessive thinking, executive dysfunction and relationship conflict. My clients are highly intellectual + self-reflective. I mesh well with symbolic thinkers who are interested in understanding themselves and how their early childhood experiences shaped their relational patterns today. I work with "Talented & Gifted burn-out kids" who are ready to fully un-mask and break the cycle of generational trauma.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
As your therapist, I will create space for you to go deeper. Whatever needs to present itself will. Therapy is a space for you and it will be what it needs to be. I am here to help you figure out what that is if you aren't sure yet. I will modify my therapeutic orientation to provide the container necessary to hold and empower you. The therapeutic bond we build is where the work starts. I serve as a warm witness as you begin the work of unlearning & healing. My approach to therapy is transpersonal, humanistic and deep. As our work together evolves, I will begin to recognize your patterns and will then inquire to see if you notice what I do. I will meet you where you're at, no matter where that is <3 <3 <3
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My clients describe me as calm, empowering, authentic, solution-focused + attuned. I am skilled at pattern recognition within the thinking and behavior of individuals + family systems. I have a niche interest in generational trauma and the impact of this from generation to generation. Another one of my special interests is in advocacy for de-pathologizing the human experience + shifting the Mental Health Paradigm from the Disease model to Neurodiversity affirming care, language + support. I see my clients as the experts of their lives and provide space + compassionate inquiry to encourage introspection. I love being present as my clients experience "aha" moments and un-learn narratives + habits they developed in order to feel safe but are no longer needed to protect them. I feel my lived experience makes me a bad ass therapist. I go to therapy weekly and think everyone should. You are not broken or disordered. Nothing is wrong with you. You just haven't been given the support you need to be ✨TRULY✨YOU✨!
About Leyla El-Baba
Specializes in
Licensed in
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VirtualMy treatment methods
Transpersonal
Attachment-based
Brainspotting
Existential
Relational
On average, Oxford clients pay $0-$75
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