About Summar
I often support clients who identify as queer, trans, neurodivergent, chronically ill, disabled and or people of the global majority. My approach is warm, patient, strengths based, and practical. I offer tools that clients can use to support their growth and healing, both during and outside of sessions. This includes learning how to build a practice of radical self compassion, transforming and healing your inner dialogue, expanding and deepening your connection to community, and deepening your connection to your roots. Everyone's healing journey is unique, and I am here to empower you on yours.
I use a combination of talk therapy, mindfulness and body based/ somatic practices, expressive arts therapy, and liberation psychology with clients. I believe that you are the expert of your own life, and I will work collaboratively with you to find language that best validates your experiences.
I am committed to bringing decolonial and anti-racist practices to my work with clients. Our identities impact all of our relationships, and I welcome discussion about how identity shows up in therapy. For more info or to schedule a free consultation, email at therapy.summar@gmail.com.
I am a queer, Palestinian-Lebanese, neurodivergent, chronically ill therapist based in occupied Ohlone land (Oakland, CA). I received my Masters in Counseling Psychology with a Focus in Expressive Arts Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in 2020. I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AFMT #144630). I work under the supervision of Dr. Sheila Addison, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #49616). All sessions are held virtually on a secure, HIPAA compliant platform.
Quotes
"There is a voice inside that does not use words... listen."
-Rumi
"Let me speak to you as a comrade and tell you that we must fight on; that we must rest and breath and not tire."
-Noura Erakat
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced"
-James Baldwin
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way- things I had no words for"
-Georgia O'Keeffe
"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky"
-Thich Nhat Hanh