I’ve had the privilege of spending the past 14 years supporting healing and system change across public health, social services, and mental health. Along the way, I’ve worked in trauma prevention, survivor support, forensic services education, and consulted with state agencies to strengthen systems of care. But when you sit across from me, none of that matters as much as this: I don’t show up as an authority over you or an expert on your life. Therapy isn’t about power, control, or hierarchy. It’s about partnership. I show up as a human being committed to walking alongside you — with humility, honesty, and a little humor when it’s needed.

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, rage, grief, 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 or Arabic. When we work together, I’ll be real, contextual, and curious. I’ll meet you without judgment and you might hear a few curse words in different languages, because sometimes only our mother tongues can truly hold the depth of what we feel. I don’t pathologize your anger, grief, exhaustion, or any other emotion; instead, I help you understand them, regulate your nervous system, identify patterns, release bodily tension, find your community, 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 deep wounds and emotions.

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 you.