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 a 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 informed by trauma and neuroscience research, my approach to therapy explores and addresses 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.

While strategies can be useful for providing short-term relief from symptoms, particularly in severe Mental Health conditions, ADHD, ADD, other Neurodevelopmental disorders and Stabilization in Trauma Healing, they can be viewed as one facet of counselling. After a certain point in Your Healing Journey, strategies become less helpful. They tend to present a one-size-fits-all approach. ‘Go for a walk, listen to music, etc. Clients come to me after being advised to use these strategies for years and feeling horrible about themselves because they didn’t work for them. At this point, they need deeper intervention. Something beyond strategies. Because the “use strategies” advice not working for them has reinforced their deeper beliefs about themselves. About their self-worth. Their competencies. Their inadequacies. The deeper feelings of “not-enough-ness” have remained and resurfaced. It sets them up for disappointment as they say to themselves, ‘I try and try, and I keep failing.’ So, while strategies and tools are an element of counselling, they are not always sufficient for long-term trauma healing.

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, and 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