I’m a Palestinian psychotherapist who grew up in the Arab world and has lived across different countries and cultures. My own experiences have shaped my sensitivity to questions of identity, belonging, cultural expectations, and what it means to find your own way without feeling that you have to abandon where you come from. I also recognize that racialized experiences are not all alike. Racism, migration, family history, and our relationships to culture can shape us in profoundly different ways.
My approach is experiential and somatic, with Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) at its core. Rather than only talking about your experiences, we pay attention to what happens inside you as we explore them. What emotions emerge? Where do you feel them in your body? What happens when you get close to expressing something you’ve learned to keep to yourself?
I’m an active, engaged therapist. I’ll sometimes slow you down or interrupt the story to help us notice something important as it’s happening. This can be especially meaningful when we’re exploring patterns that have become so familiar they feel like part of who we are, rather than ways we’ve learned to protect ourselves, maintain relationships, or navigate difficult environments.
I also draw from transpersonal and depth-oriented perspectives, making room for the unconscious, dreams, spirituality, creativity, and existential questions. For some clients, this means exploring the relationship between cultural or religious inheritance and their evolving beliefs. For others, it means making sense of experiences that don’t fit neatly into conventional psychological explanations.
My style is warm, direct, curious, and relational. I’m interested in helping you understand how your experiences have shaped you, but also in what becomes possible when you have more freedom to decide which parts of that history you want to carry forward, and how you want to live.
