About Me

 

I’m a queer Muslim(-ish) femme and settler of colour with ancestral roots in Iran. My journey to healing-oriented work began over ten years ago with feminist, community-based organizing. Those years were the beginnings of language-ing my own grief, my own rage, and my own joy. It was through the communities I walked within, and the powerful writings of feminist and critical race theorists that I arrived here, to therapy.

 

My therapeutic work is politicized, embodied, slow, and creative. To learn more about my approach, click here. 

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My credentials and trainings include: 

 

• Gottman Couples Therapy 

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapist for Trauma Themes, Level 1 

• Certificate in Somatic Embodiment & Regulation Strategies, Levels I, II and III, Linda Thai 

• Healing Shame in Inner Children - and Actual Children, Centre for Healing Shame, Bret Lyon and Sheila Rubin 

• Movement for Trauma, Level 1, Jane Clapp 

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

• Member of the OASW 

• Registered Social Worker with the OCSWSSW

• Master of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University

• Master of Arts in English Literature, Focus on Psychoanalysis, University of British Columbia

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Fees 

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Each session is 50 minutes long, with some exceptions made to couples therapy sessions. Session fees range from $130 - 150 for individual therapy, depending on access to financial resources. Couples therapy sessions are $175 per session. I also offer a number of sliding scale slots for BIPOC individuals with limited financial resources to improve access to mental health supports. These slots are currently full. 

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Additional Information 

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All clients of my practice must be located in Ontario, Canada.