My work comes from a deeply relational and embodied place—shaped not only by professional training, but by lived experience, self-inquiry, and years of walking alongside people on their journey back to themselves. From a young age, I carried a natural capacity to listen deeply, attune to emotional realities beneath words, and create spaces where people feel seen, heard, and held in their experience. Encountering the work of Dr. Gabor Maté and the Compassionate Inquiry approach gave language and structure to something I had long embodied intuitively.

My academic background began with a B.A. in Psychology, grounded in a biopsychosocial understanding of human behaviour and mental health. While this provided a strong theoretical foundation, I was drawn toward experiential, relational, and trauma-informed healing work. This led me to begin my Compassionate Inquiry journey—an experience that has profoundly shaped both my personal healing and professional path.

Over the years, I have lived and worked between Lebanon, London, and Canada, supporting people from diverse cultural and psychosocial backgrounds. My experience includes accompanying different people in crisis through trauma, addiction, homelessness, and significant life transitions and challenges. My clinical and relational experience spans childhood trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction, dissociation, psychosis, ADHD, and altered states of consciousness.

I am particularly passionate about creating compassionate, non-pathologizing spaces for individuals experiencing psychosis, dissociation, and voice hearing. This led me to help create and facilitate a “Psychosis and CI” focus group within the Compassionate Inquiry community, as well as support groups for voice-hearers—spaces rooted in curiosity, dignity, shared humanity, and deep listening.

Alongside Compassionate Inquiry, my work is informed by therapeutic arts and expressive modalities. I integrate drawing, clay, movement, poetry, music, and sand work into trauma-informed practice, viewing creativity not only as expression but as a gateway to parts of the psyche and body beyond language.

My approach is also shaped by experience with breathwork, embodiment practices, and plant medicine spaces, which have deepened my understanding of trauma, nervous system regulation, spirituality, and expanded states of awareness. I hold these experiences with humility, emphasizing the importance of integration, safety, and grounding in any deep healing process.

I also completed the CI Portal training, which deepened my capacity for embodied presence and somatic attunement focused on early developmental experience, including in utero life, pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period, and how these foundational stages shape the nervous system, attachment patterns, and a person’s implicit sense of self and safety in the world.

At the heart of my work is my own ongoing journey. Through years of self-inquiry, relational healing, and therapeutic exploration, I have come into deeper contact with my own trauma, emotional truths, and authentic self.

As a Compassionate Inquiry practitioner, what I bring into the therapeutic space is the presence, curiosity, emotional depth, creativity, safety, and genuine human connection. That I have received in order to be where I am today.