I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I graduated from Cambridge College in 2002, with a Masters in Education, with a focus on Marriage and Family therapy and Mental Health Counseling. I have been in private practice since graduation and have worked in various positions. I am also currently working at Southcoast Hospital Groups, Charlton Memorial Campus, as crisis clinician in the Emergency Department. I also am an adjunct faculty member at Fisher College and Bristol Community College, with a focus on teaching students who are earning their Bachelors degree in Psychology or Human Services. I have taught crisis intervention, Counseling Patrice and Policy, Research Methods, Statistics, Psychology of Personality. I enjoy working with people and it is alot of fun to see people who have benefited from receiving outpatient mental health treatment. I use a solution focused approach, together, we look at the here and now and try to find the bast way to tackle the presenting issue. I enjoy working with many folks from different walks of life, couples therapy, individual therapy, men's health issue, immigration issues and oncology. I am fluent in Arabic with a Lebanese dialect, as I immigrated to the USA as a child, I am fluent in Arabic but do not read or write Arabic.
Additional areas of focus: Stress, Anxiety, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Grief, Eating disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Aging and geriatric issues, BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture, Blended family issues, Cancer, Caregiver issues and stress, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Divorce and separation, Drug and alcohol addiction, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, Fertility issues, Guilt and shame, Hoarding, Immigration issues, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Men's issues, Midlife crisis, Money and financial issues, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Self-harm, Self-love, Sex addiction, Sexual dysfunction, Sexuality, Smoking / vaping cessation, Social anxiety and phobia
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy
MA LMHC LMHC6306