I believe everyone has the right & the potential to live a fulfilled life. Together, we can empower you to have a more full-bodied & successful existence.
I enjoy showing clients their own divine potential as fully loving, whole, successful beings, and helping them gain insight to improve the richness of their lives, whether dealing with daily stressors or more challenging issues such as abuse, anxiety, depression, attachment issues, Boundary setting, acculturation, relationship challenges, co-dependency, addiction, trauma, and spiritual challenges.
Every once in a while, something in our lives goes badly enough that we wish we had known at the time what we know now, so we could go back and do things differently. However, dwelling on the past is something that many people don’t like to do; they are eager to wipe the slate clean and start fresh on a path toward a brighter tomorrow. But pushing forward without a backward glance can be hazardous to our mental health.
I am not saying we should live in the past. Our entire life story, not just where we’re going but where we’ve been, deserves our curiosity and attention. Getting past an emotional injury is like getting past winter; the only way past it is through it. Imagine if you broke a bone and then, not wanting to dwell on the injury, went out and played soccer the next day. How well do you think that would go for you and your broken bone? It’s a ridiculous thing to do, yet people do it all the time with wounds that aren’t physical. Instead of constructively wallowing in the bad stuff that happens to us, we try to shake off an upset as soon as possible so we can get past it. Emotional injuries need time-outs, just as physical injuries do. We can’t process emotional wounds if we’re busy focusing on the future, trying to shove aside any thoughts about the bad stuff that happened back then.
Emotional maturity requires that we acknowledge where we’ve been by pondering the past. We’re only as old inside as the wounded child who sustained our oldest hurts: neglect, ridicule, criticism, sexual abuse, etc. If we hide our personal history from ourselves by insisting on focusing at all times on the present and/or the future, we can’t help that child heal and grow into the adult we’re meant to become. We will be stuck in life. Trauma feelings cannot be repressed or forgotten. If they are not dealt with directly, the distressing feelings and troubling events replay over and over in the course of a lifetime. Research has shown quite convincingly that early trauma is a major predictor and causal agent not only of neurotic-spectrum problems such as anxiety, depression and relationship issues, but also of physiological health outcomes.
Many clients report chaotic, troubled childhoods and traumatic life experiences. Together, we will find a way to not only overcome your childhood abuse, traumas, and many other challenges and obstacles but to use what you learned from them to become extremely successful in your adult life. Together, we can turn your wounds into wisdom, and empower you to have a more full-bodied and successful existence.
As a certified and experienced Domestic violence counselor, I support victims in finding their own strengths, and help them develop the skills they need to walk away from abusive relationships, and live successfully on their own and potentially build a healthy and happy relationship. I help these individuals develop self-esteem, identify relationship patterns and potential red flags, and behave with an appropriate level of assertiveness.
I provide Individual, Couple, Family, and Group therapy in English and Farsi, in West Los Angeles and Sherman Oaks.
Many clients report troubled childhoods and traumatic life experiences. Together, we will find a way to not only overcome your childhood abuse, traumas, many other challenges and obstacles but turn your wounds into wisdom, empower you to have a more full-bodied and successful existence in your adult life. you your own divine potential as fully loving, successful beings, and helping you gain insight to improve the richness of your life, dealing with anxiety, depression, emotional breakthroughs, boundaries, self-esteem, effective communication and social skills, acculturation, co-dependency, addiction, and spiritual difficulties.
