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 yourself, your community, and 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, covid conscious 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