Azleena Azhar works with clients from all cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds at Lifeologie Counseling Durham. She has extensive experience supporting survivors of trauma, abuse, and intimate partner violence, helping them develop their inner strengthand resilience. She incorporates present moment mindfulness, boundary setting, and transcendence to help clients navigate toxic relationships and narcissistic family systems.
She also enjoys working with young adults and adolescents (including 3rd culture kids, immigrants, refugees) struggling with acculturative stress, family conflict, school, and social stressors or identity formation, and caring for aging parents. She has a deep empathy in supporting adults facing the challenges of caring for their aging parents.
Azleena 's approach to therapy is strengths-based. She incorporates elements of attachment theory, CBT, DBT, IFS, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma Focused CBT, & mindful self-compassion. She is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which is known for its effectiveness in treating trauma.
Azleena comes from a place of non-judgment, and she believes that everyone has been created in their own unique mold and holds a special place in this world. She believes that given the right tools to deal with our external circumstances, we can thrive.
If you think Azleena would be a good fit for your therapeutic journey, she would be honored to help you find the strength and resilience within you to become the best version of yourself.
