Najma approaches therapy with discernment, steadiness, and deep respect for each person’s lived experience. Her work is grounded in trust, presence, and honest dialogue, shaped by years of supporting individuals through emotionally complex and high-stress periods. She strive sto offer a calm, grounded space, even when clients are navigating overwhelming or uncertain circumstances.

As a first-generation immigrant, she understands the layered realities many people carry, including cultural and family expectations, caretaking roles, faith, identity development, economic stress, and major life transitions. Many of the individuals Najma works with describe feeling pulled between responsibility and self-definition, resilience and exhaustion. She holds space for these tensions with care, nuance, and cultural awareness.

She works with late adolescents and adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, relationship stress, and life transitions. She also supports individuals impacted by social and political stressors, as well as concerns related to racial and cultural identity, spirituality, and family dynamics. Her background in crisis work has strengthened her ability to remain grounded and present when emotions feel intense, helping clients establish firmer footing during difficult moments.

Therapy with Najma is collaborative and intentionally paced, allowing room for reflection, insight, and meaningful growth. She offers a 20-minute consultation to explore what brings you to therapy, what you are hoping for, and whether her approach feels like a good fit.

In her free time, she enjoys traveling, especially to places with a coast and good food. Najma says that nothing reinvigorates her spirit quite like waves crashing against the rocks at the beach. Thanks to her ancestral ties to a country with the longest coastline in Africa, she has always been drawn to the ocean and is always down to travel anywhere that is warm with a coastline.