We want you to get the multicultural care that you deserve.
The Holistic Living Co. is a therapy practice rooted in the belief that distress does not exist in a vacuum. We were created in response to a mental health system that too often individualizes pain while ignoring the systems that produce it. What we carry in our bodies and minds is shaped by history, migration, culture, and power; often, long before it shows up as anxiety, depression, burnout, or disconnection.
We take a different stance. We slow things down, widen the lens, and make room for truth. We honor lived experience, ancestral knowledge, and the reality that healing is not just personal, but relational and collective. Here, emotions are not problems to fix, but signals to listen to. Therapy becomes a space to feel, reflect, and reconnect with what matters most, because none of us are meant to heal in isolation.
Our Story
Is this the Right Therapy Practice for You?
This space may be for you if:
You are an immigrant, child of immigrants, or BIPOC carrying stress, trauma, anxiety, depression, or intergenerational pain
You are going through a major life transition and contemplating what to do or how to move forward
You are high-achieving and often a perfectionist but feel unseen, unheard, exhausted, disconnected, or “not good enough”
You want to process childhood and/or intergenerational trauma including war and/or attempted genocide
You are experiencing work stress and burnout and want to process it, come up with solutions, and figure out your next steps
You want therapy that honors context, identity, history, and lived experience
This space may not be the best fit if:
You are looking for a quick fix or only symptom-focused therapy
You want to avoid conversations about culture, systems, or social inequity
You do not feel prepared to face all of the emotions that may come up or to address patterns of behaviors that are no longer serving you or your loved ones
Meet the Founder Providing a Personalized Approach
The work we do here is deeply personal. Therapy at The Holistic Living Co. is shaped by lived experience as much as professional training. This practice was founded by Christeen Badie, an Arab immigrant therapist with over 14 years of experience across public health, social services, and mental health. Her practice is grounded in systems-level work and a deep understanding of how identity, migration, culture, and power shape the body, nervous system, and the stories we carry.
When Christeen is not in the therapy room, she is the foster mom to unaccompanied minors and can often be found cooking, designing healing spaces through her other venture, zenterrainteriors.com, traveling, or taking long walks with her husband and frenchie, Quito (Yes he is named after the Capitol of Ecuador!).