As a Pakistani-American Muslim woman, my overlapping identities enable me to work with a variety of clients. I approach therapy with a culturally aware, faith-based, anti-oppressive and strengths-based lens, allowing clients to reach deep within themselves to explore their hidden potential and build upon healthy coping skills and resources to break self-destructive patterns.
I aim for humility and open-mindedness; clients will find me equally supportive while gently challenging and redirecting them where necessary. I aspire toward a model called "decolonial therapy", which sits at the crossroads of the psychological, political, ancestral, and collective, and is accessible while offering a path to liberation and healing.
I am also an "Apartheid-Free Business" under the Austin Against Apartheid campaign, where I have pledged to divest from primary BDS targets. For more information, visit www.austinagainstapartheid.com.
I am proud to work with many students, young professionals, and young adults, especially those who are trying therapy out for the first time, or are switching over from a therapist they may not have connected well with. E-mail me at [email protected] to schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation to see if we are a good fit! (Please email me instead of reaching out via Headway.)
If you have financial barriers to therapy, let's chat! My commitment is to work with you despite those barriers and find a way forward for us both.
