Wajdi Fakhoury LMFT 148333

Therapy at Samar begins with how you experience the world. Many people come after years of adapting to environments and expectations that were not built with their needs in mind. Rather than framing this mismatch as a deficit within the individual, we examine how person and environment are interacting. Our psychotherapy is informed by neurodevelopmental understanding and shaped around lived experience. Neurodivergence is not treated as something to fix, but as part of how a person processes, communicates, and relates, even as we address the mental health challenges that arise alongside it. People seek therapy here for anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout, relational stress, identity-related questions, or longstanding emotional and relational patterns. Adaptation is central to the work. We attend to communication style, regulation needs, executive functioning demands, and processing patterns so therapy feels responsive rather than imposed.

I believe therapy should begin with how you experience the world. Many people come to therapy after years of adapting themselves to environments, expectations, and systems that were never designed with their needs in mind. My work starts by recognizing that mismatch as context, not deficit. My approach is grounded in a biopsychosocial framework. I consider how biology, development, relationships, identity, environment, and meaning all interact. Neurodivergence is not something to fix. It is part of how a person processes, communicates, and relates, even as we address the very real mental health challenges that can arise in unsupported environments. Adaptation is central to how I practice. I pay close attention to communication style, regulation and nervous system responses, executive functioning demands, processing patterns, and what genuinely matters to you. Therapy is structured yet flexible, paced intentionally, and shaped around lived experience rather than imposed technique.