About Your Therapist

I grew up hiding beneath layers of masks.

For years, I masked who I truly was. I over-functioned, pushed my needs aside, and tried to fit into a world that wasn’t designed for me. I numbed, I adapted, I survived. Over time, I began to unlearn those patterns. I started listening to my body, honoring my differences, and reclaiming the parts of myself that had been silenced. I realized I wasn’t broken…I was navigating a world that often doesn’t hold neurodivergent or highly sensitive people.

This journey shapes everything I bring to my work. I specialize in supporting neurodivergent women and queer folks, parents, caregivers in healing family-of-origin trauma, mother wounds, birth trauma, and the patterns that leave us carrying anger, grief, or emotional exhaustion. I work with those who feel deeply, think intensely, and sometimes struggle to reconcile their unique wiring with a world that isn’t always built to understand it.

I’m queer, AuDHD, a first-generation immigrant settler from the Middle East, the eldest daughter, a mother, chronically ill and a survivor of complex trauma. My lived experience informs my work, and I bring compassion, attunement, and a belief in your capacity to heal.

You are not broken. You are not too much. You are here to be fully, unapologetically you — and that is exactly what this work is for.

Licenses:

Licensed Clinical Social Worker:

Education:

  • Master of Social Work | Concentration in Integrated Healthcare

    ————> Western Carolina University - 2020

  • Bachelor of Art in Psychology | Minor in Outdoor Leadership

    ————> Warren Wilson College - 2016

Experience

Certifications

  • Brainspotting Practitioner - Level 1

  • Alternatives for Families (AF-CBT)

Clinical Experience:

  • Therapist on the Integrated Child Welfare team supporting families on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians reservation on the Qualla Boundary

  • Wilderness therapist for AFAB adolescents in the Pisgah National Forest

  • Clinical intern at a psychiatric crisis stabilization unit for children + teens in downtown Asheville, North Carolina

  • Intern at a residential treatment center for pregnant + parenting women struggling with substance abuse

  • Mentor for AFAB adolescents at a residential treatment center + wilderness therapy program