You can't change what you don't confront. I work with individuals, couples, and families over telehealth across Washington state, helping people reclaim the parts of their story that are theirs to write and build new ways of showing up in their relationships, instead of repeating the ones that were handed to them.

As a Pakistani, Muslim therapist, I bring a distinct cultural lens to that work, especially for clients navigating identity, communication, and life transitions where faith, family expectation, and personal identity don't always line up neatly. I hold a PhD in Human Development and Family Studies from Michigan State University, and I teach the Person-of-the-Therapist model, an approach that treats the therapist's own self-awareness as part of the clinical tool, not something to set aside. I'm a member of the Institute of Muslim Mental Health and co-founder of Narratives of Pain, both spaces focused on culturally grounded approaches to mental health that don't ask someone to leave part of their identity at the door.

I'm also an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, which means I bring that same rigor to training the clinicians I supervise, not only to my own client work.

I'm a good fit for someone in Washington state looking for a Muslim or South Asian therapist, or anyone drawn to identity, communication, and life-transition work through a systemic lens that takes culture and faith seriously rather than treating them as background noise.

Sessions are entirely by telehealth, so location within Washington state isn't a barrier. Request a session to get started, or reach out first with questions, including if you're interested in AAMFT-approved supervision or the Person-of-the-Therapist training I teach. That training asks a clinician to bring genuine self-awareness into the therapy room rather than hide behind clinical neutrality, and it shapes how I supervise as much as how I see clients directly.