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About My Clients
I work best with high-achieving adults in high-responsibility roles (clinicians, education leaders, healthcare, tech)—especially high-masking autistic/AuDHD clients—who look “fine” on the outside but feel depleted inside: burnout, panic/anxiety, trauma activation, dissociation, chronic bracing, shutdown, or “I can’t turn off.” If you’re used to carrying a lot and performing competence, we’ll slow down and work with what your nervous system is actually doing.
My Background and Approach
I’m Setareh Azar Jinn (she/her), LMFT #104844 and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) (licensed/verified under my legal name, Nima Saalabi). My work is SE-informed, depth-oriented, relational, and experiential. We track present-moment experience (sensation, emotion, impulse, breath, micro-movement, boundaries) so your system can reorganize out of survival strategies that once protected you—and may now be costing you. In practice, this often looks like: noticing early signs of activation before overwhelm, building resourcing that’s actually usable, working with protective responses (freeze/fawn/fight/flight/collapse) without pathologizing, and growing capacity for boundaries, choice, and steadiness in relationships and work.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe symptoms are intelligent adaptations to cultural, relational, and systemic environments. I practice from a disability-informed and healing-justice lens, with a commitment to QTBIPOC liberation and the dignity of neurodivergent minds and bodies. As a queer and trans clinician, I am deeply attuned to how minority stress, masking, attachment injury, and power dynamics shape nervous system patterns. A substantial portion of my work is with trans and nonbinary adults, autistic/AuDHD clients, and individuals navigating polyamory or consensual kink. I approach identity, relational structures, and power exchange without pathologizing, while maintaining clear clinical boundaries and trauma-informed differentiation.