Therapy with Maryam
What you don’t repair, you repeat.
I help diverse women who juggle multiple cultural identities heal. Maybe you’re the child of immigrants, multiracial or a racially ambiguous chameleon, an expat, “third culture kid”, bilingual (or sad you lost your parent’s language), feel culturally displaced, part of a religious minority, or just don’t quite fit into any one box. I get it.
It’s exhausting to always “be on” for your partner, children, parents, cultural gatekeepers, and work. To top it all off you carry the silent burden of staying cool, calm, and collected in the face of constant microaggressions and glass ceilings that make you want to scream (but you stuff it down to avoid being perceived as too “angry” or “emotional”). You’re not crazy or making it up - the act of carrying it all is exhausting.
You might find it hard to get your own needs met and feel unsettled in yourself and your relationships. I am here to walk beside you to co-create radically new ways of being, relating, and living. What you need matters. In our work together, we will get to the root cause of your protective patterns of over working and find more compassionate ways of showing up for yourself.
We might be a good match if you are ready for change and simply fed up with:
Silence
Always saying yes
Mothering everyone but yourself
Navigating contradicting expectations
About Me & Why I Do This
“I’m on a mission to empower women to break cycles of trauma and misattunement across generations and families. Women are uniquely positioned as mothers, partners, sisters, and leaders to revolutionize how we relate to one another in our families and communities.”
Therapeutic Approach and Frameworks
Clients and colleagues describe me as down-to-earth, relatable, and fiercely empathic.
Our relationship is the vehicle for change. My work is grounded in culturally responsive strengths-based therapy, cultural relational theory, multicultural feminist therapy, trauma focused parts work, the neuroscience of connection, and attachment research.
My Therapist Specs (aka Credentials)
Maryland Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C, License # 21931)
Washington, D.C. Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW, License #200001509)
Virginia Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, License #0904013588)
Maryland Board Approved Clinical Supervisor for both Social Workers and Professional Counselors
EMDR Level I & II (Institute for Creative Mindfulness)
Decolonizing Therapy for Black Folk & Therapy that Liberates (cohort 3) - Kindred Community Wellness
Master of Social Work (MSW), Morgan State University
B.A., Arabic Studies, University of Maryland, College Park