Therapy with Shenaaz
I utilize both relational theory and mindfulness practice as grounding principles of my therapy style. Relational work is based on the idea that through our relationships and knowing how we operate within them, we can better understand ourselves and grow to our fullest potentials. Mindfulness practice seeks to observe and notice our reactions to experiences – from the most minute to the largest, for the purposes of decreasing our suffering.
My therapy work strives to build a mutual understanding of how relationships can heal, mend and tend to our hurts and growth areas – past and present. Relationships are with the self, spirit, family (chosen and birth), community, colleagues and work related, partners, spouses and lovers, pets and more.
And through examining relationships with we can transform the hurts and joys they bring into learnings and knowings about the self.
I seek to support people in healing from interpersonal, familiar, societal, systemic, and historical traumas. I provide psychotherapy for individuals, those in relationships (couples, poly, friendships, etc) and families.
Areas of interests and specialty:
I utilize both relational theory and mindfulness practice as grounding principles of my therapy style. Relational work is based on the idea that through our relationships and knowing how we operate within them, we can better understand ourselves and grow to our fullest potentials. Mindfulness practice seeks to observe and notice our reactions to experiences – from the most minute to the largest, for the purposes of decreasing our suffering.
My therapy work strives to build a mutual understanding of how relationships can heal, mend and tend to our hurts and growth areas – past and present. Relationships are with the self, spirit, family (chosen and birth), community, colleagues and work related, partners, spouses and lovers, pets and more.
And through examining relationships with we can transform the hurts and joys they bring into learnings and knowings about the self.
I seek to support people in healing from interpersonal, familiar, societal, systemic, and historical traumas. I provide psychotherapy for individuals, those in relationships (couples, poly, friendships, etc) and families.
Areas of interests and specialty:
- Trauma - generational, complex, relational
- Spiritual healing, decolonized and liberation psychology
- Secondary trauma (vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue) for activists and non-profit workers
- Internalized oppression, islamophobia, xenophobia, queerphobia and transphobia
- Muslim and immigrant identity and complexity
- QTBIPOC
- Sexuality and gender identity formation and exploration
- Poly, kink, non-monogamy and expansive ways of being in relationships
- Parenting, queer parenting, trying-to-conceive, co-parenting
- Family-of-origin harms, boundaries and reconnection
