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About My Clients
My clients are often thoughtful, self-aware people who have done a lot of inner work and still feel caught in anxiety, burnout, relationship strain, identity questions, or patterns they can explain but not quite shift. Many are queer, trans, nonbinary, poly/ENM, culturally complex, spiritual-but-not-religious, or simply looking for therapy where more of their life can be understood without over-explaining. I work well with adults and couples who want depth, honesty, steadiness, and real change.
My Background and Approach
I bring an integrative, relational approach shaped by counseling, social work, systems thinking, trauma study, and lived experience. Before becoming a therapist, I worked in tech, which taught me to notice patterns and hidden loops. In therapy, that becomes curiosity about the systems inside and around you: family roles, attachment patterns, protective parts, nervous system responses, culture, identity, relationship dynamics, and the stories you inherited about who you are allowed to be. My work draws from Internal Family Systems and parts work, somatic therapy, attachment theory, CBT/DBT-informed tools, narrative work, and anti-oppressive practice. I am warm, direct, collaborative, and depth-oriented. We may slow down, name what your body has learned to carry, understand the parts trying to protect you, and build more choice where old patterns have felt automatic. The goal is not to fix you. It is to help you relate to yourself with clarity, compassion, agency, and freedom.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe therapy should make room for complexity. People are not problems to be solved; they are living systems shaped by family, culture, identity, relationships, grief, survival, imagination, and longing. I also believe distress often makes sense when we understand what someone has had to adapt to. My work is grounded in the belief that healing is relational, embodied, and possible without becoming forced. I care deeply about identity-affirming and liberation-oriented care, for people who have had to translate themselves in too many rooms. I am a first-generation Iranian-American, queer, nonbinary therapist, and I bring my own relationship to culture, spirituality, creativity, and chosen family into the way I understand belonging. Outside the therapy room, I’m drawn to art, music, writing, ritual, nature, interspiritual study, systems, and the ongoing practice of making a life that feels honest. I value warmth, humor, consent, depth, and the courage it takes to become yourself.