my approach

With respect for your choices, culture, and values, I use a collaborative approach in supporting you to take steps in new and unfolding directions. This means tailoring therapy to your unique strengths, interests, needs, and wishes.

Some of the approaches that I might integrate are:

  • Existential: connecting to a sense of being, meaning, and freedom

  • Narrative: uncovering alternative stories in life and identity

  • Anti-oppressive: understanding the influences of social, cultural, and political contexts, and shining a light on acts of resistance

  • Somatic: attending to emotions and experiences held in the body, and connecting to the body as a healing resource

  • Depth-oriented: exploring and expressing the unconscious through dreams, art, play, and imagination

training & experience

I completed my Master of Counselling Psychology degree at City University of Seattle, and my BA in Psychology at McGill University. I am registered with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (RCC #19739).

My experiences in different social services and community organizations inform my approach to therapy, and help me to explore a variety of areas of life that may be important to you. Some of that experience includes supporting children and youth facing difficulties with family or with neurodivergence and disability, working in supported mental health housing, doing social justice advocacy and peer support, and providing counselling around reproductive health and choices.

I am trained in Lifespan Integration, a body-mind therapy for facilitating healing from trauma, increasing tolerance to adverse situations, and strengthening the capacity to connect to self and others. LI is rooted in the theory of memory reconsolidation, a neurobiological process through which long-standing patterns of being and responding are transformed. I bring this understanding and deep interest in neuroscience to our work together, whatever path we choose to follow.

areas of focus

  • Trauma

  • Identity

  • Meaning-making

  • Grief and loss

  • Feeling stuck

  • Gender and sexuality

  • Neurodiversity

  • Transitions

  • Creativity

  • Spirituality

about me

I come from an Iranian background and grew up here on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Things that bring me joy include playing music, painting, reading and learning as much as possible, and spending time around trees and water. I primarily speak English but have some proficiency in Farsi, Spanish, and French. I use she/they pronouns.

“When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid”

— Audre Lorde