Find healing from trauma
Are you feeling stuck, anxious and overwhelmed?
Maybe you haven’t fully processed a negative life experience and are still struggling to overcome its imprint in your life. Sometimes when these intense negative experiences are not metabolized, they can affect all areas of your life: social, emotional, cognitive, physiological. They can come in many forms, including early childhood neglect or abuse, community violence, sexual and racial trauma, natural catastrophes, career and relationship upheavals and health problems.
Alternatively, anxious thinking, ruminating and depressive mood may point to deeper stirrings in your psyche that may be nudging you to move in a direction that better aligns with your core values and soul calling. Working with a professional to explore how you can make choices that reflect these values can infuse your life with new energy, meaning and purpose.
Welcome to therapy
I am a licensed psychotherapist with a heart for helping people process trauma, anxiety, depression and challenging life transitions so as to reestablish their personal autonomy and strengths.
I have found that talk therapy alone is not always effective in trauma treatment. This is what inspired me to become an EMDR certified therapist. I also use depth psychology to help people explore their inner worlds to reveal hidden fears, beliefs, shadow parts, dreams and creative impulses that sometimes lie under the surface of our conscious awareness. When brought to the light of consciousness, they can enrich our lives with insights and revelations that can help us realign with our core Self.
Cultural safety
We can feel like outsiders in our own lives if the cultures where we live, work and socialize do not align with our personal values. We may feel judged, undervalued, excluded or invisible. Because humans are wired for connection, we have a biological need to find spaces where we feel safe, seen and accepted just as we are. Where we can be ourselves. Where we can thrive and belong.
Cultural safety forms the core of my clinical work. I have two decades of experience working with people from different cultures and walks of life, both as an educator and as a psychotherapist in my private practice and in refugee and immigrant communities. My professional training, lived experience and clinical understanding of the intersection of culture and mental health enable me to connect with people from cultural and minority groups who may not identify with the larger culture or fit into society’s categories, and are struggling with issues concerning identity, belonging, self-worth and cultural expectations.
The immigrant experience
The psychological and acculturation challenges that immigrants face are unique and varied. We are so resourceful, yet we can get derailed by cultural and racial challenges, relationship difficulties, life transitions and midlife problems. When these parts of our lives change, they can shatter our inner and outer sense of safety and belonging. We may experience setbacks in our self-worth, in the roles we play and the masks we wear. How we manage these setbacks in our lives determines how we can regain our confidence and balance, and move forward with a renewed purpose and sense of Self.
As an immigrant myself, I understand these challenges and know how hard it is to reach out to someone for help. I acknowledge the courage, trust, and personal investment it takes to even consider therapy. My role in facilitating this process for my clients is an honor and a privilege that I do not take lightly, and I strive to create a non judgmental space where we can explore these challenges together.
Schedule a free consult
If you are looking for ways to overcome anxiety, depression and trauma and align with your core values, contact me for a free 15-minute consult.
You can find out more about me, my therapy style and training, ask questions, and share what your goals for therapy are. Use the form below or email me at nkihato@uzima.us. Or call me at 678-582-8425.
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