About Your Therapist

For much of my life, I moved through the world wearing masks.

I learned early to over-function, push my needs aside, and adapt to environments that didn’t fully understand or support the way I experienced the world. Like many neurodivergent and highly sensitive people, I became skilled at surviving — numbing, performing, and trying to fit into systems that were never designed for me.

Over time, that began to change.

I started listening more closely to my body, honoring my differences, and slowly reclaiming the parts of myself that had been silenced. What I came to understand is that I was never broken. I was navigating a world that often struggles to hold neurodivergent, sensitive, and deeply feeling people.

That journey shapes everything I bring to my work as a therapist.

I specialize in supporting neurodivergent women and queer folks, parents, and caregivers in healing family-of-origin trauma, mother wounds, birth trauma, and the relational patterns that leave us carrying anger, grief, or emotional exhaustion. Many of the people I work with feel deeply, think intensely, and struggle to reconcile their unique nervous systems with a world that often misunderstands them.

I’m queer, neurodivergent, a first-generation immigrant settler from the Middle East, an eldest daughter, a mother, chronically ill, and a survivor of complex trauma.

My lived experience informs my work. I bring compassion, attunement, and a deep respect for the body’s wisdom and the psyche’s capacity to heal.

You are not broken.
You are not too much.

You are here to be fully, unapologetically yourself.

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