Arab and Middle Eastern Therapists in Sunnyvale, CA
Working with teens and adults, I am privileged to have joined with them these past five years as they have navigated their challenges with anxiety, depression, life transition, identity, and more. We will work together to tap into the skills that you already possess and add to your repertoire.
Working with teens and adults, I am privileged to have joined with them these past five years as they have navigated their challenges with anxiety, depression, life transition, identity, and more. We will work together to tap into the skills that you already possess and add to your repertoire.
As a licensed psychologist, I'm committed to supporting individuals and families through life's challenges and transitions. My practice is built on strong, trusting relationships that honor the unique strengths each person brings — because real change starts from a place of being truly seen and valued.
I also recognize that no one exists in isolation. Family, school, and community all play a powerful role in shaping who we are, and I weave that understanding into everything we do together. I specialize in working with children and teens navigating complex trauma, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and attachment difficulties — meeting each
As a licensed psychologist, I'm committed to supporting individuals and families through life's challenges and transitions. My practice is built on strong, trusting relationships that honor the unique strengths each person brings — because real change starts from a place of being truly seen and valued.
I also recognize that no one exists in isolation. Family, school, and community all play a powerful role in shaping who we are, and I weave that understanding into everything we do together. I specialize in working with children and teens navigating complex trauma, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and attachment difficulties — meeting each
I support families and individuals with trauma, stress and burnout, grief and loss, including estrangement or alienation, identity and immigration, PTSD and complex trauma, traumatic grief, and high-conflict family and work situations. I help families and couples with life transitions, relationship struggles, separation and divorce, parenting, remarriage and blended families, and navigating nuanced family, social, and cultural complexities - all while focusing on the children's wellbeing, wants, and needs. Together, we build safety, connection, and empowerment, helping you feel at home in yourself, your body, and in the world.
I support families and individuals with trauma, stress and burnout, grief and loss, including estrangement or alienation, identity and immigration, PTSD and complex trauma, traumatic grief, and high-conflict family and work situations. I help families and couples with life transitions, relationship struggles, separation and divorce, parenting, remarriage and blended families, and navigating nuanced family, social, and cultural complexities - all while focusing on the children's wellbeing, wants, and needs. Together, we build safety, connection, and empowerment, helping you feel at home in yourself, your body, and in the world.
My name is Karine Johannes and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Sherman Oaks, California working with clients statewide via telehealth. I work with young adults and specialize in treating depression, anxiety, and codependency. My therapeutic style is compassionate, interactive, supportive, and tailored to the unique needs of each individual. My approach is trauma-informed, LGBTQ, and BIPOC-affirming. I assess each person from a holistic perspective and look forward to helping you with your healthcare concerns.
My name is Karine Johannes and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Sherman Oaks, California working with clients statewide via telehealth. I work with young adults and specialize in treating depression, anxiety, and codependency. My therapeutic style is compassionate, interactive, supportive, and tailored to the unique needs of each individual. My approach is trauma-informed, LGBTQ, and BIPOC-affirming. I assess each person from a holistic perspective and look forward to helping you with your healthcare concerns.
Hi there! First of all, welcome and thanks for checking out my profile. If you’re here, you’re probably feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected. I work with couples, individuals, and families with adult children who are ready for a change. Whether it’s communication issues, intimacy struggles, or navigating life’s transitions, I’m here to guide you through it all. Let’s work together to heal, grow, and create deeper connections because you deserve a life full of love and understanding.
Hi there! First of all, welcome and thanks for checking out my profile. If you’re here, you’re probably feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected. I work with couples, individuals, and families with adult children who are ready for a change. Whether it’s communication issues, intimacy struggles, or navigating life’s transitions, I’m here to guide you through it all. Let’s work together to heal, grow, and create deeper connections because you deserve a life full of love and understanding.
My name is Saly Nasrat, and I am a licensed marriage and family therapist. I graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a Master of Science in counseling with an emphasis on marriage and family therapy. I would like to help you find greater balance and a higher quality of life through understanding, healing, and cognitive awareness. My integrative approach may consist of cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered therapy while always working from a humanistic foundation.
My name is Saly Nasrat, and I am a licensed marriage and family therapist. I graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a Master of Science in counseling with an emphasis on marriage and family therapy. I would like to help you find greater balance and a higher quality of life through understanding, healing, and cognitive awareness. My integrative approach may consist of cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered therapy while always working from a humanistic foundation.
Many of my clients come to therapy feeling flooded, disconnected, or overwhelmed by their emotions. They often wonder why they can’t find lasting relief, or why relationships feel so hard to maintain. It can seem as though no amount of support or connection is enough—or that what’s available can’t be trusted or understood. Often, these struggles are rooted in childhood trauma, attachment wounds, or patterns learned early in life. Together, we’ll explore how these experiences shaped your relationships, self-esteem, and emotional regulation—and begin to heal the younger parts within you that still carry pain.
Many of my clients come to therapy feeling flooded, disconnected, or overwhelmed by their emotions. They often wonder why they can’t find lasting relief, or why relationships feel so hard to maintain. It can seem as though no amount of support or connection is enough—or that what’s available can’t be trusted or understood. Often, these struggles are rooted in childhood trauma, attachment wounds, or patterns learned early in life. Together, we’ll explore how these experiences shaped your relationships, self-esteem, and emotional regulation—and begin to heal the younger parts within you that still carry pain.
Have you experienced relationship issues with partners, friends, or family? Is it difficult to connect as a couple, adjust to life changes, or your nervous system and mind feel hijacked by a recent or past trauma? Or maybe your cultural identity is being pulled in multiple directions, which can be confusing and isolating!
Life can feel SO heavy. I’m here to tell you—don’t have to carry it alone. Together we’ll explore your world and discover how, with your willingness to learn skills and tools, you can heal, grow, trust yourself and take back control of your life. With me you’ll have a warm, safe, and direct but supportive space.
Have you experienced relationship issues with partners, friends, or family? Is it difficult to connect as a couple, adjust to life changes, or your nervous system and mind feel hijacked by a recent or past trauma? Or maybe your cultural identity is being pulled in multiple directions, which can be confusing and isolating!
Life can feel SO heavy. I’m here to tell you—don’t have to carry it alone. Together we’ll explore your world and discover how, with your willingness to learn skills and tools, you can heal, grow, trust yourself and take back control of your life. With me you’ll have a warm, safe, and direct but supportive space.
I'm an LMFT, a therapist with over 15 years of experience based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I help adults navigate anxiety, trauma, depression, and life transitions using a compassionate, trauma-informed approach that supports lasting healing and growth. I work primarily with adults experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life transitions. Many of my clients feel overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected and are seeking practical tools alongside deeper healing to move forward with clarity and confidence.
I'm an LMFT, a therapist with over 15 years of experience based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I help adults navigate anxiety, trauma, depression, and life transitions using a compassionate, trauma-informed approach that supports lasting healing and growth. I work primarily with adults experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life transitions. Many of my clients feel overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected and are seeking practical tools alongside deeper healing to move forward with clarity and confidence.
Dear fellow traveler, do you want to find calm amidst anxiety and stress, claim inner peace from past wounds, rekindle love and affection with your partner(s), seek peace with food, discover pleasure with your body, or get more clarity and acceptance about who you are? As a seasoned trauma/ relationship/ sex specialist, I help highly motivated humans like you to create the life you've been waiting for. Together, we navigate the challenges you face, not only transforming your life, but also breaking generational cycles, and fostering healing for future generations (if you choose to have them).
Dear fellow traveler, do you want to find calm amidst anxiety and stress, claim inner peace from past wounds, rekindle love and affection with your partner(s), seek peace with food, discover pleasure with your body, or get more clarity and acceptance about who you are? As a seasoned trauma/ relationship/ sex specialist, I help highly motivated humans like you to create the life you've been waiting for. Together, we navigate the challenges you face, not only transforming your life, but also breaking generational cycles, and fostering healing for future generations (if you choose to have them).
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The couples who find me are rarely struggling because they don't love one another. More often, they've become trapped in a relationship that no longer reflects who they want to be together. They may be successful in every other area of life yet feel defeated at home. I work with couples navigating parenthood, infertility, betrayal, emotional distance, recurring conflict, discernment, conscious uncoupling, and poly/ENM transitions. What unites them is the feeling of being trapped in a relationship pattern they no longer know how to change.
The couples who find me are rarely struggling because they don't love one another. More often, they've become trapped in a relationship that no longer reflects who they want to be together. They may be successful in every other area of life yet feel defeated at home. I work with couples navigating parenthood, infertility, betrayal, emotional distance, recurring conflict, discernment, conscious uncoupling, and poly/ENM transitions. What unites them is the feeling of being trapped in a relationship pattern they no longer know how to change.
Are you heavy with concerns, worried about your ability to care for loved ones, or finding it difficult to make it through the day? Do you feel so stressed that it is hard to focus and engage? You may find you tend to forget things, have trouble completing tasks. You may have begun to feel lonely, notice distance creeping into your intimate relationships. Up late at night, feeling sad, judged, overwhelmed or stuck, wishing you could just escape. In therapy, you will find a safe place to explore all these worries, feelings, and reactions, and to examine your deepest struggles.
Are you heavy with concerns, worried about your ability to care for loved ones, or finding it difficult to make it through the day? Do you feel so stressed that it is hard to focus and engage? You may find you tend to forget things, have trouble completing tasks. You may have begun to feel lonely, notice distance creeping into your intimate relationships. Up late at night, feeling sad, judged, overwhelmed or stuck, wishing you could just escape. In therapy, you will find a safe place to explore all these worries, feelings, and reactions, and to examine your deepest struggles.
I am a holistic psychotherapist with extensive training and experience in using trauma-informed approaches and evidence-based practices to transform the lives of my clients. I empower clients through education as well as introspection. I provide individual therapy and couples therapy. My approach is focused on treating the whole person. I believe this multi-dimensional approach is a key to developing long-lasting change that allows my clients to live fulfilling lives. Life is a mysterious journey of experiences and learning. My purpose is to help others make their life sacred by holding it as a masterpiece.
I am a holistic psychotherapist with extensive training and experience in using trauma-informed approaches and evidence-based practices to transform the lives of my clients. I empower clients through education as well as introspection. I provide individual therapy and couples therapy. My approach is focused on treating the whole person. I believe this multi-dimensional approach is a key to developing long-lasting change that allows my clients to live fulfilling lives. Life is a mysterious journey of experiences and learning. My purpose is to help others make their life sacred by holding it as a masterpiece.
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At Bridges Therapy Group of California, we’re dedicated to matching you with the perfect therapist for you and ensuring that your insurance will truly pay for your sessions. We are contracted, in-network providers with all the insurers listed below. We verify your benefits before you start so there are no surprises to you.
At Bridges Therapy Group of California, we’re dedicated to matching you with the perfect therapist for you and ensuring that your insurance will truly pay for your sessions. We are contracted, in-network providers with all the insurers listed below. We verify your benefits before you start so there are no surprises to you.
Hi. Are you struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, or life transitions? I support adults, teens, children, and families who are feeling anxiety, stress, relationship challenges, or major life changes. Therapy should be a supportive and personalized experience. Together, we focus on your existing strengths while building practical tools to help you feel more grounded, confident, and hopeful. You don’t have to have everything figured out—therapy is a place to slow down and be heard.
Hi. Are you struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, or life transitions? I support adults, teens, children, and families who are feeling anxiety, stress, relationship challenges, or major life changes. Therapy should be a supportive and personalized experience. Together, we focus on your existing strengths while building practical tools to help you feel more grounded, confident, and hopeful. You don’t have to have everything figured out—therapy is a place to slow down and be heard.
Anise Health is a culturally-responsive and holistic online mental health practice designed to drive outcomes for the Asian population. Clients come to us for help managing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions from our therapists and behavioral coaches who specialize in providing culturally-responsive care. Specifically, we are trained to explore your intersecting identities and provide targeted support for cultural stressors, including bicultural tension, pressure to achieve, family dynamics, guilt & shame, and more.
Anise Health is a culturally-responsive and holistic online mental health practice designed to drive outcomes for the Asian population. Clients come to us for help managing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions from our therapists and behavioral coaches who specialize in providing culturally-responsive care. Specifically, we are trained to explore your intersecting identities and provide targeted support for cultural stressors, including bicultural tension, pressure to achieve, family dynamics, guilt & shame, and more.
At Aurum Mind, we understand that life doesn’t wait for your next therapy session. One hour a week isn’t always enough for the stress and pressure you navigate every day. That’s why we offer on-demand concierge mental health support—available when you need it most.
Whether it’s 10 minutes before a high-stakes board meeting or in the middle of your toddler’s meltdown, our clinicians are just a call, text, or video away.
Real-time, personalized support for you and your family, designed to meet life as it happens—not after the fact. Because the right support, at the right moment, can change everything.
At Aurum Mind, we understand that life doesn’t wait for your next therapy session. One hour a week isn’t always enough for the stress and pressure you navigate every day. That’s why we offer on-demand concierge mental health support—available when you need it most.
Whether it’s 10 minutes before a high-stakes board meeting or in the middle of your toddler’s meltdown, our clinicians are just a call, text, or video away.
Real-time, personalized support for you and your family, designed to meet life as it happens—not after the fact. Because the right support, at the right moment, can change everything.
Welcome. I’m accepting new clients. Are you tired of tying your identity to your career, single hood or motherhood and yearning to live beyond the expectations and roles you've been given? I specialize in helping millennial women create a life on their own terms by reconnecting with meaning, aliveness, and locating ourselves within the larger story of life.
My specialties include: 1) pregnancy and postnatal anxiety 2) Work burnout 3) Dating and relationship ambiguity 4) premarital and couples therapy
Welcome. I’m accepting new clients. Are you tired of tying your identity to your career, single hood or motherhood and yearning to live beyond the expectations and roles you've been given? I specialize in helping millennial women create a life on their own terms by reconnecting with meaning, aliveness, and locating ourselves within the larger story of life.
My specialties include: 1) pregnancy and postnatal anxiety 2) Work burnout 3) Dating and relationship ambiguity 4) premarital and couples therapy
I’m Dr. Abu-Rus, a clinical psychologist available to see patients anywhere in California. I know reaching out for therapy can feel strange—like acknowledging something’s wrong when you’ve spent so much energy trying to hold it together. As a mom, USAF Veteran, and psychologist, I work with people navigating trauma, new parenthood, or depression that doesn’t always make sense on the surface. You might feel irritable, numb, anxious, or unsure of who you are anymore. You’re not too much. You’re not broken. And you don’t have to carry this alone. Updated as of 08/13/26
I’m Dr. Abu-Rus, a clinical psychologist available to see patients anywhere in California. I know reaching out for therapy can feel strange—like acknowledging something’s wrong when you’ve spent so much energy trying to hold it together. As a mom, USAF Veteran, and psychologist, I work with people navigating trauma, new parenthood, or depression that doesn’t always make sense on the surface. You might feel irritable, numb, anxious, or unsure of who you are anymore. You’re not too much. You’re not broken. And you don’t have to carry this alone. Updated as of 08/13/26
You're tired of just getting through the day. Maybe it's the weight of past trauma that won't let go, a relationship pattern you can't seem to break, or a quiet sense that your life should feel like more than this. You don't need someone to fix you—you need someone who sees you as a whole and helps you remember that, too.
That's what I do.
I'm a holistic psychotherapist who works with people navigating trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, codependency, grief, disordered eating, body image, and the messy, beautiful process of personal growth.
You're tired of just getting through the day. Maybe it's the weight of past trauma that won't let go, a relationship pattern you can't seem to break, or a quiet sense that your life should feel like more than this. You don't need someone to fix you—you need someone who sees you as a whole and helps you remember that, too.
That's what I do.
I'm a holistic psychotherapist who works with people navigating trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, codependency, grief, disordered eating, body image, and the messy, beautiful process of personal growth.
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FAQ - Arab and Middle Eastern Counseling
What can an Arab and Middle Eastern therapist help with?
An Arab and Middle Eastern therapist can support clients with a wide range of mental health concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, grief, and major life transitions. However, what may make their approach unique is their ability to integrate an understanding of the cultural, family, and social factors that may be shaping your mental health concerns. If you identify with a Middle Eastern background, such as Arab, North African, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, or Palestinian, working with a therapist who is familiar with values surrounding family loyalty, community expectations, religion, marriage, and caregiving responsibilities can help reduce the need to explain yourself in sessions and better support your healing in the context of your background.
How does cultural background influence the therapy experience?
A therapist who personally identifies as Arab or Middle Eastern may offer a deeper understanding of cultural norms, family dynamics, religious beliefs, migration experiences, and the stigma that may surround mental health in some communities. This shared cultural framework can make it easier to build trust and focus more directly on healing. It is also important to note that a therapist does not have to share your background to provide effective therapy. In some cases, finding a culturally competent therapist may be just as important as finding one who shares your background.
What role can language play in therapy?
Language plays a central role in how people process and express emotions. Even for individuals who are fluent in English, certain feelings, memories, or experiences may be easier to describe in the language they grew up speaking or thinking in, such as Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Kurdish, or Turkish. Clients may feel more comfortable expressing themselves without having to translate their thoughts, which can reduce the risk of losing meaning or nuance. For many Arab and Middle Eastern clients, language is also closely tied to family relationships. Being able to move between English and your native language in therapy can help reflect real-life dynamics, such as communicating with family members in one language and navigating work or school in another. This flexibility to move between languages in sessions can make therapy feel more natural and relevant to daily life.
How might I inquire about a therapist’s experience with Arab and Middle Eastern clients?
If cultural background is important to you in therapy, it can be helpful to ask a prospective therapist whether they have experience working with Arab and Middle Eastern clients. In initial conversations with potential therapists, you might ask whether they have worked with concerns related to cultural identity, immigration, family expectations, intergenerational conflict, discrimination, or stigma around mental health. As sessions begin, it can be helpful to notice how the therapist responds to your concerns. A strong therapeutic alliance does not necessarily require a therapist to share your background, but they should respond to your concerns with respect and cultural humility. If you feel dismissed, misunderstood, or find yourself having to explain your background constantly, it may be worth considering another therapist.
Who is included in Psychology Today’s directory of Arab and Middle Eastern therapists?
The directory of Arab and Middle Eastern therapists includes professionals who have shared their ethnicity in their profiles. Psychology Today uses this information to assist clients in finding a therapist who can provide a cultural match. However, not all therapists choose to disclose their ethnicity in their profiles, and they may not appear in search results for this reason. When the number of therapists who have personally identified as Arab or Middle Eastern is limited, the directory may also show therapists with experience working with clients from relevant backgrounds.