I am a therapist and educator. I bring over 20+ years of experience in community-based counselling and teaching to my sessions. I support people with anxiety and depression, trauma, substance use concerns, disordered eating and exploring neurodivergence in families, schools and workplaces.

The heart of our therapeutic work is our ‘click.’ I draw on psychodynamic and emotion-focused approaches, narrative therapy, and trauma-informed mindfulness and somatic practices. I integrate Cognitive and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy approaches if appropriate. Together we find your right balance of sharing, working in the moment with an emotion, problem solving issues, and identifying your strengths and skills. We find hope and agency together.

I worked in drop-ins, shelters and community health centres for two decades. I taught community work and social service work for over a decade. I am an experienced participatory facilitator. I am also informed by my background as a social theory nerd and a poet.

Therapy can be joyful, even as we navigate deep emotional experiences together. If you’re curious about whether we’d be a good fit, I invite you to email me at therapy@rabeamurtaza.ca for a no-cost consultation by phone or video. I’m here to support you on your journey toward healing and growth.

Families; couples; adolescents; parents; midlife, career and life shifts; college/university students; neurodivergence*; graduate students; postdocs and academics; medical learners; artists; helping professionals; racialized people; trauma; Muslims/Islam; diaspora/migration; South Asia; newcomers; refugees; substance use concerns; eating disorders; LGBTQ2S; people exploring spirituality

*ASD, ADHD, OCRD, BFRBs