With over 17 years of experience, Faiza brings a warm, authentic presence and an approach rooted in lived experience and foundational research on Trauma, and Neuroscience. Faiza uses a gentle, empathetic lens to understand you, your story, and your presenting concerns. As a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Faiza nurtures safety, vulnerability, and connection, understanding that relational safety after trauma can sometimes feel unsafe but is essential for safe embodiment. Faiza uses the same lens with couples/families, easing into softness with attachment wounds.

Over the years, she has supported many individuals and couples with struggles such as Abuse (Emotional, Physical, and Sexual) and Neglect, Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Grief, Workplace issues, Trauma, Life Transitions, Emotional Regulation, Divorce, Infidelity, Trust, and other Relational and Attachment issues. Faiza specializes in Trauma, whether Acute, Complex, Chronic, Childhood, Attachment or Intergenerational and offers holistic approaches to healing.

Faiza has an undergraduate degree in Psychology (Honours BSc) from the University of Toronto, a graduate certificate in Addictions and Mental Health Counselling, and a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP) from Yorkville University. She is currently completing her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD).

As a person, Faiza is instinctively drawn to ‘seeing’ people, gently peeling back layers, and unearthing the Authentic Self. Her life has been filled with moments of warm curiosity and nonjudgmental intrigue - foundational blocks of her counselling style - where strangers have courageously shared their stories of adversity, strength and resilience. Listening to people’s stories is a profoundly gratifying experience for Faiza. She is amazed and honoured by people’s courage to trust and be vulnerable. The process of listening is deeply fulfilling for Faiza, as she finds herself empathizing, observing, being present and attuned to thoughts and emotions, noticing patterns, connecting the dots, and nurturing space and awareness, leading to precious moments of clarity and insight.

Faiza uses an integrative approach, drawing from various treatment modalities, including Internal Family Systems, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Focus-Oriented Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Somatic approaches, and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. She tailors sessions to clients’ unique needs and strengths. She works with couples using Emotion-Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, and Family Systems Therapy. Her approach is Trauma-informed, Culturally Humble and Attachment-based.

Faiza believes therapy can be life-altering when there is a good fit. She sees her role as walking alongside people on their healing journeys to unearth their inner wisdom, voice it, and live it. She believes there is always hope, especially when it feels like there is none.

Faiza is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists in Ontario (CRPO).

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