We provide affirming, collaborative, and multicultural online therapy in North Carolina for high-achieving immigrants of any generation and people from SWANA communities (including Arab, North African, Levantine, and Gulf backgrounds).

We support the body, mind, and soul to heal from the American immigration experience, systemic oppression, political violence, workplace stress, major life transitions, and childhood & generational trauma.

Welcome to The Holistic Living Co.

You are welcome, seen, and heard here.

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Christeen Badie, MSW, LGSWA, LGSW

Founder & Bilingual Therapist

Meet the Therapist

In our therapy relationship, I bring 14 years of experience supporting healing and system changes across public health, social services, and mental health. My work has included trauma prevention, survivor support, forensic services education, and consulting with state public health and mental health departments to improve systems of care. But I don’t enter our therapeutic relationship or lead with credentials or power, I lead with humanity, humor, and truth.

I’m a brown immigrant woman who emigrated from Egypt at age 11 and grew up in the American South during and after 9/11. I learned early what it means to navigate racism, surveillance, assimilation, and the pressure to be grateful, quiet, high achieving, and the “perfect” immigrant. Those lived experiences shape everything about how I practice. I understand immigration, and collective trauma and the resulting anxiety, and depression, not as diagnoses, but as survival responses to systems rooted in colonization, violence, sexism, and exclusion.

Therapy with me can be in English, Arabic or your mother tongue. During our time together, you can expect me to be real, relational, grounding, nonjudgmental, and probably using a ton of curse words in different languages. I don’t pathologize your anger, grief, exhaustion, or any other emotion, I help you understand them, regulate your nervous system, and channel those emotions into meaningful action and change as you see fit for your life. By slowing things down, we make space for the body and nervous system, and unpack how culture, ancestors, gender norms, religion, and systems have shaped the stories you carry about who you’re allowed to be. You won’t be asked to minimize yourself, intellectualize your pain, or “positive-think” your way out of oppression.

This work is about reclaiming your story, reconnecting to joy, trusting yourself, and building a life that aligns with your values, not just one that looks successful from the outside. You don’t have to perform, translate, code switch, suppress your anger, or explain yourself here.

I hope to have the honor to walk this journey with you. Let’s talk about how I can support you on your path to the best life and version of yourself despite all that life throws at people like us.

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Our Services

Our Online Therapy Process

Make an informed decision on whether you feel that this is the right therapy practice and therapist for you. If you decide that it is a good fit, reach out to make your first appointment.

Step 1

Book your free 30 minute consultation to ask any questions you have, get to know the therapist, and learn about how therapy can help you.

Step 2

You will receive a link to access your first meeting via a secure telehealth platform for our video session. During the session, you guide what we talk about and intuitively process your emotions and thoughts.

Step 3

You will receive a packet of information from our HIPAA compliant, secure health record system to complete information about you and your health ahead of your first session.

Step 4

Book Your Appointment

Why Choose Us?

    • Adults between 19-45 years old

    • People with multicultural/bicultural, and/or Black Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) identities

    • Immigrants, refugees, migrants, and H1B visa recipients

    • Daughters, sons, and/or grandchildren of immigrants

    • LGBTQIA+

    • SWANA people. SWANA is a decolonial word to replace MENA and stands for people from Southwest Asia and North Africa. That includes those who identify as Arab and/or North African.

    • Those whose first language is not English

  • We provide therapy for immigrants and BIPOC people through an anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and decolonial lens. We see your stress, struggles, trauma, acculturation challenges, and the exhaustion of trying to be so damn perfect all the time. You have tried everything to belong and figure out who you are but the struggle still exists. These emotions are shaped by culture, history, and systems. We do not pathologize your perfectly normal human responses to oppression, injustice, and exclusion. We hold space for all the emotions, including that rage, anger, fear, anxiety, and/or depression that we all feel as immigrants and/or BIPOC. When you process these feelings and regulate your nervous system, you feel more confident, joyous, and grounded, helping you to embrace your beautiful, complex identity and building a life aligned with your values and purpose.

    • Joy, connection, and healing are acts of resistance and liberation.

    • Everyone deserves to heal and live fully.

    • We believe in each person’s innate capacity to heal.

    • Immigrants, across all generations, are the backbone of the United States.

    • We honor ancestral, cultural, and Indigenous wisdom.

    • We stand for social justice and equity.

    • Black Lives Matter

    • We will never stop fighting for a free Palestine

    • We center and affirm immigrants, BIPOC, and other communities impacted by oppression and dehumanization.

  • We are trained in the following modalities:

    • Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

    • Internal Family System (IFS)

    • Brainspotting

    • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

    • Parts Work

    • Motivational Interviewing

    We recognize and acknowledge that most modern day modalities are Eurocentric and as such we spend time getting to know you and what fits you best. This may include incorporating music, dance, and/or movement in our sessions.

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