My Approach to Helping
Hello! I’m Nina, a licensed clinical therapist who has been working in trauma intervention for 17+ years. Before becoming a therapist, I worked as a rape crisis counselor, a trauma-healing self-defense instructor, and a trauma-informed care consultant for non-profits.
I approach therapy using multiple modalities. I believe in the mind-body connection and integrate mindfulness and body-based interventions where needed, including a focus on the physiology of stress and emotions. I use a holistic approach to therapy, exploring all your identities, ambivalences, and values, and believe that understanding your upbringing and cultures is critical to how you cope and relate to the world, and yourself in it.
I specialize in working with trauma survivors, and specifically with people from the following communities:
- adult children of multicultural, multiracial, and immigrant families,
- fellow Southwest Asian/North African and Middle Eastern-identified people,
- LGBTQIA+,
- survivors of sexual abuse and assault,
- veterans,
- people seeking sex and intimacy support and exploration (including people practicing kink and non-monogamy).