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For individuals, couples, and families, body-centered (somatic) psychotherapy focuses on integrating mind, body, and soul through the awareness of physical sensations, images, and emotions. This work can help with self-regulation, conflict resolution, and post-traumatic stress recovery. My offerings are playful explorations of our inner resources, moving us forward from the frozen scripts that bind us toward full, expressive lives.

Caring for the Caregivers-Transformative Workshops & Events

Join me for workshops which address self, social and collective transformation for individuals and groups, non-profits, social profit organizations, and educational institutions. Each workshop builds capacity in creating communities of caring, collaboration, and mobilization for social action.

As a resettlement project clinical supervisor, I help recently relocated Afghan children, and families integrate their experiences as they settle into their new communities. Trauma-informed, culturally aware counseling and family navigation services provide a connection to community resources – food assistance, transportation, translation, educational, vocational, and legal assistance.

The Ecology of Being You- Somatic Psychotherapy for Individuals

Body-centered (somatic) psychotherapy focuses on integrating mind, body & soul through the awareness of physical sensations, images, and emotions. This work can help restore emotional balance, dissolve inner & outer conflicts, and foster post-traumatic growth.

You may have had needs that were ignored when you were younger, which affected how you experience life. My approach to therapy looks at early life experiences and how much they might shape to way you think and feel today, taking into consideration what may be happening in the brain.

Start understanding how relationships shape your life and how you can create stronger and more fulfilling ones. You’ll build the skills you need to deal with the difficulties life throws your way and new, healthier habits that stop the cycle of suffering.

It may be challenging to find your way after experiencing loss. We work to find a way for you to live life as yourself, freer, more open, and accepting of yourself and others. Get clear on what you value in life and start living by those values as you move forward into your life.

The Barefoot Healers’ Collaborative (Going from Me to We) is an online learning community of collaborators for social change. A community gathering of healers, caregivers, and agents for social change to provide emotional support, a place to collaborate & network, offering samplings of their work to the larger community, providing facilitated conversations on collective level issues: Gender, economics, race, trauma & conflict resolution, and developing awareness campaigns & mobilizing for advocacy and social change. Community Building & Caring for the Caregivers: Transformative Workshops & Events.

Join me for workshops which address the continuum in self, social, and collective level transformation for individuals and groups, non-profits, social profit organizations, and educational institutions. Each workshop builds capacity in creating communities of caring, collaboration, and mobilization for social action (workshop listings).

The Afghan Women’s Center is an Innovative income generating project that showcases the variety of skills in sewing and culinary arts that Afghan women who’ve relocated to Santa Fe after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan last year. 

As a resettlement project clinical supervisor, I help recently relocated Afghan children & families integrate their experiences as they settle into their new communities.

The Ecology of Being Human is the Blog:  Chronicles of an Afghan American Social Worker on being human in the world, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, multi-disciplinary approach:  Neurobiology, psychology, ecology, social sciences, anthropology, etc. … Exploring a new paradigm for social & global organization.

• A blog for social workers, caregivers, and those interested in the American involvement in Afghanistan.
• Based on the course Human Behavior in the Social Environment, which launched me into this field close to 30 years ago, this blog asks what is a life well lived in the arc of our life’s journey? What are the particulars of how we come to know ourselves as we live our lives, from birth to death, through all the cycles of our life’s journey?  What are the tasks and stages of development we need to navigate for our growth?  How do we come to find our place and make sense of our existence within the contexts of our family, our community, and our humanity?  How do we write the story of our evolving experience as we live it in real time, not as an afterthought? How do we say goodbye to the beauty of this form when the time is ripe?
• The fact is, until further notice, we are born from the woman that is our mother and the man that is our father.  Of course, disciplines such as psychology, anatomy, neurology, philosophy, and physiology, each focusing on a distinctive aspect of the whole elephant, have informed our understanding of what it is to be a human. But to this external, objective view, we invite the expression of the inner sensory experience of ourselves as we navigate these stages within the challenges and opportunities they present.

How do we know ourselves from within, and who are we really to ourselves and to others? In short, how can we live ourselves from the inside out?  What do we know of the full orchestration of ourselves at our optimal creative potential?  Is it even possible, and where would we begin to find out if it is?

• Collect the writings to post on the blog: Afghanistan, New Orleans, Greece…
• Articles, you-tube videos of interest.
• Podcast & interviews with different people
• Newsletter/Blog