Curious about Therapy with Faiza?

“I’m not so much a “tools and strategies” kind of therapist. I’m more of an “experiential, deep self-exploration, let’s sit in space of curiosity, look within, listen to the inner conversation between you and your parts” kind of therapist.

Why?

Because that is how we truly heal.

Using a bottom-up approach recognized by trauma and neuroscience research, my approach to therapy explores and gets to the root causes of your presenting concerns. Therapy with me looks like gently and compassionately putting back together pieces of you fragmented from the chaos of traumatic storms in your life. Reconnecting you and your parts to your authentic, wise Self while forming a coherent narrative of you, and a place of internal trust, safety and stability.

Strategies tend to present a one-size-fits-all approach. ‘Go for a walk, listen to music, etc’. Clients come to me after being told to use these strategies for years and feeling horrible about themselves because they were not sustainable in the long run. Instead, this reinforced their deeper beliefs about themselves. About their self-worth. Their competencies. Their inadequacies. The deeper feelings of “not enough”-ness remained. The strategies set them up for failure and disappointment as they said to themselves, ‘once again, I tried and failed.’ So, you can see why I stay away from these “quick fixes”.

With my love and passion for self-healing, self-discovery, and self-reflection, I would much rather support you with a more sustainable approach exploring the root causes and teaching you to heal yourself, sit in stillness with yourself, in curiosity and compassion, and attune to your inner wisdom. This will return you to a place of calm waters where you’ll feel relief somatically, you’ll find your own path gleaned from your inner wisdom. The process will stay with you after sessions end and guide you for the rest of your life.”

-Faiza Haroon, MACP