“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.”

— Brené Brown

I believe one of the most courageous things we can do is begin to understand our own story.

My clinical journey began in Benghazi, Libya, where I earned my medical degree and began my career in psychiatry. My earliest experiences in mental health were not confined to textbooks or quiet clinical settings. I worked in high-intensity and war-affected environments, where I witnessed people navigating trauma, loss, uncertainty, and profound change.

Those experiences shaped me deeply. They taught me that healing is rarely simple or linear—and that behind every diagnosis, symptom, or coping mechanism is a person with a story that deserves to be understood.

After moving to the United States, my own path evolved. I earned my Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from The Chicago School, specializing in Trauma and Crisis Intervention, and continued building my clinical experience across hospitals, advocacy programs, community settings, and private practice.

Working across countries, cultures, and different systems of care has given me a unique perspective on mental health. I have seen resilience in circumstances where it would have been easy to believe there was none. I have also learned that people can appear incredibly capable on the outside while carrying experiences internally that continue to shape their relationships, emotions, choices, and sense of self.

That understanding is at the heart of how I practice therapy today.

I am particularly passionate about working with trauma and PTSD, including the ways trauma can quietly show up years later—as anxiety, emotional dysregulation, difficulty trusting others, perfectionism, avoidance, relationship patterns, or simply the feeling that something is not quite right.

My clinical experience also includes working extensively with anxiety, depression, ADHD and executive-functioning challenges, OCD and intrusive thoughts, bipolar and other mood disorders, personality patterns that affect relationships and emotional regulation, self-harm, skin picking, and other body-focused repetitive behaviors.

I don’t believe therapy should be one-size-fits-all. I draw from evidence-based approaches including CBT, DBT, ACT, ERP, trauma-focused therapies, and other integrative approaches, tailoring treatment to the person sitting across from me rather than asking the person to fit into a particular model.

But beyond techniques and diagnoses, I believe the relationship between therapist and client matters.

Therapy should be a place where you can be curious about yourself without judgment. A place where patterns can be understood rather than criticized, where difficult experiences can be approached safely, and where insight gradually becomes meaningful change.

You do not have to arrive knowing exactly what you need or even how to explain what you are feeling. Sometimes therapy begins simply with the sense that something needs to change.

My role is to meet you there—with compassion, curiosity, clinical knowledge, and a deep respect for the complexity of your experience.