1. Guiding Values
My clinical work is grounded in the belief that healing occurs through authentic connection, emotional safety, and deep attunement to the client’s lived experience. I hold a relational stance that honours the whole person—their pain, resilience, culture, history, and nervous system.
I view the therapeutic relationship as a secure base from which clients can begin to explore parts of themselves that may have long been silenced, exiled, or fragmented. I work from a trauma-informed lens, recognizing the complex impact of systemic, relational, spiritual, and intergenerational trauma.
2. Core Theoretical Influences
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT): Guides my work in helping clients process emotion experientially, rather than intellectualizing pain. Emotion is treated not as a problem, but as a path to self-understanding and transformation.
Somatic and Polyvagal-Informed Practices: Support clients in building awareness of their nervous system responses and creating safety in the body. These practices are essential for trauma processing and grounding.
Narrative Therapy: Helps clients recognize that they are not their pain or problems—they are the authors of meaning, with power to re-author their stories.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Offers skills-based interventions when clients are emotionally dysregulated, especially in the context of trauma, substance use, or attachment wounds.
Faith-Integrated Work: When requested, I respectfully incorporate Islamic and Christian perspectives to support spiritual processing and identity work.
3. Clinical Populations Served
* Adults navigating trauma, addiction, codependency, anxiety, spiritual or cultural conflict
* Families impacted by substance use, trauma, and ruptured trust
* Clients struggling with shame, emotional numbness, self-judgment, or identity fragmentation
4. Therapeutic Process and Presence
I bring a calm, emotionally grounded presence to the room. My role is to hold what clients are often afraid to feel—to slow down, listen inward, and notice what arises in the body and the emotional field. I don’t rush toward insight or advice-giving; rather, I trust that what needs to emerge will do so when the nervous system feels safe enough.
I invite all parts of the client into the space—the angry part, the numb part, the tender inner child, the culturally silenced voice. I work with protective parts gently, often naming their function and role without forcing disclosure or change.
Boundaries, rupture, and repair are acknowledged as inevitable aspects of the therapeutic relationship. I stay with the client through discomfort and disconnection, modeling the safety of a connection that does not shame or abandon.
5. Therapeutic Goals
The goals of therapy are co-created. Often, these include:
- Increasing self-awareness and emotional literacy
- Reclaiming suppressed parts of the self
- Building self-compassion and trust in the body
- Identifying and transforming inherited relational patterns
- Developing boundaries that honour the client’s values and capacity
- Integrating trauma experiences without reactivation
6. Cultural and Ethical Considerations
As a racialized therapist working with diverse populations, I hold space for the impact of migration, colonization, faith, family structure, and shame on mental health. I honour my clients' cultural frameworks while offering tools that help them discern what still serves them—and what they are ready to release.
I uphold CRPO’s standards of practice and maintain transparency, informed consent, and ethical reflexivity throughout the therapeutic process.