About

(Pronouns: she/her/hers)

I am a licensed clinical psychologist with experience in a variety of settings including community mental health, university and college counseling and end-of-life psychotherapy in and outside of the hospital environment.

I completed my doctoral internship at Johns Hopkins University Counseling Center and my post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University’s Counseling and Psychological Services. Along with my private practice, I am a staff psychologist and clinical supervisor and I am humbled to be a co-founder of the Inclusive Muslim Mental Health Alliance (IMMHA).

I identify as a cis gender, Muslim, South Asian, able bodied woman. I was born in apartheid era South Africa and raised between Johannesburg and the unceded territory of the Tongva people, Southern California. I offer services only in English. I am a Liberation psychologist and practice from a decolonial and relational lens and consider myself to be an advocate for systemic change and liberation of all oppressed and racialized people.

I stand in solidarity with my Black and Indigenous siblings who are unjustly subjected to the most violence while living in Turtle Island (the United States).

Affiliations

• Member of the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA)
  • Member of the Social Justice Committee

• Member of the Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility, Section IX, Div 39, American Psychological Association
• Member of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology, Div 39, American Psychological Association

• Member of Psychologists for Social Responsibility
• Member of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence: Peace Psychology Division Division 48
• Member of the American Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African Psychological Association

Learnings and Trainings

• Visioning an Anti-Carceral Psychoanalysis
  • Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California
• Transformative Mental Health Core Curriculum
  • Institute for the Development of Human Arts

Media

How to Deal with Guilt and Anxiety When Your Homeland is Under Attack.

• Huffington Post

VoyageLA

Between Two Palms, Asian American Psychological Association Podcast

Publications

Traumatic stress in South Asian diaspora: A narrative review : in Journal of Traumatic Stress

This Type of Muslim: in Studies in Gender and Sexualities Journal

Queer Muslim solidarity: Working against binaries : in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society

As Authoritarianism Grows, Psychologists Must Not Be Silent: Counterpunch

Psychologists Call for Justice and Accountability: Confronting the Atrocities Against Palestinian Lives

Select Presentations and Talks

Queer Muslim Solidarity: Working Against Binaries

• National Multicultural Conference & Summit 2024

We do not need to be rescued: Islamophobia and the therapy space

A little whiteness in our lives: a conversation about multiracial partnerships

• 43rd Annual Spring Conference, Div 39 American Psychological Association

Healing Student Activists: Counseling Center Support on the Ground

• New Jersey Higher Education Mental Health Summit 2025