I am a licensed psychotherapist, Marital Family Therapist (LMFT #132217), Board-Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC #23-248), and Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator (RSMT/E #2405152).

Currently, I am a Jungian Analyst Candidate in the final Control Stage of training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles.

My work is rooted in Jungian psychology and informed by Archetypal psychology, depth psychology, and psychodynamic embodied approaches. I am trained in trauma informed body-oriented modalities and expressive arts therapies.

With clinical experience in community mental health clinics, school settings, and private practice, I lead somatic movement and creative expressive workshops nationally. 

With lived experience across the Middle-East, Europe, and the United States, and fluent in Farsi, French, and English, I bring a deepened and widened multicultural sensibility to my work. 

My practice is located in West Los Angeles, Santa Monica, California.

Academia

• Jungian Analyst Candidate in the final Control Stage, of training at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles
• Ph.D. Depth Psychology with Specialization in Somatic Studies.
• M.A. Depth Psychology with Specialization in Somatic Studies.
• M.A. Marital Family Therapy with Specialization in Clinical Art Therapy.

Certifications

• MBSR – Mindful Based Stress Reduction (Training at Brown University, School of Professional Studies)
• Jungian Sand Play for Clinicians (C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles).
• Life / Art Body Process Professional Training (with Daria Halprin at Tamalpa Institute, CA).
• Grief Specialist Training (Our House Grief Support Center).
• Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy (LI & LII).
• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Externship with Dr. Sue Johnson.
• Somatic Experiencing Professional Training (Dr. Peter Levin’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute – Modules Beg. I, II, & III).
• MBSR – Mindful Based Stress Reduction (Training at Insight L.A.)