Find healing from trauma

Are you feeling stuck, anxious and overwhelmed?

Maybe you haven’t fully processed a negative experience or traumatic event and are still struggling to overcome its impact in your life. When these negative experiences are not metabolized, they can affect all areas of your life: social, emotional, cognitive, physiological. Traumas can come in many forms, including early childhood neglect or abuse, sexual and racial trauma, career and relationship upheavals and health problems.

Sometimes 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.

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 minds.

Cultural safety

Sometimes we can feel like outsiders in our own lives, especially 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 we are wired for connection as humans, we have a biological need to find spaces where we feel seen, safe and accepted just as we are. Where we can be ourselves. Where we can thrive and belong.

I have two decades of experience working with people from different countries, cultures and walks of life both as an educator and as a psychotherapist in my private practice and in refugee and immigrant communities. I bring my professional training and lived experience into my clinical understanding of the intersection of culture and mental health. As such, cultural safety forms the core of my clinical work. I particularly love working with people of color and those 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 both unique and varied. We are so resourceful, yet we can get derailed by cultural and racial issues, relationship challenges, life transitions like career changes and divorce, health and midlife problems. When these parts of our lives change, they can shatter our inner and outer sense of safety and belonging. We experience a shift in our self-worth and sense of self in the roles we play and the masks we wear. How we manage these shifts in our lives determines how we can regain our confidence and balance, and move forward with new meaning and purpose.

As an immigrant myself, I understand 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.

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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