Dr. Aisha Chaudhry is a female Muslim therapist and Aalimah who helps Muslim women gain the confidence they need to handle daily life stressors that contribute to feelings of anxiety and depression. She specializes in healing past distressing memories, trauma, and OCD.
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Assalaamu Alaykum
Are you looking for a female Muslim therapist who can understand what you’re experiencing?
A lot of Muslim women are looking to overcome fears and anxieties related to expectations they feel family, friends, and society have of them that often drive them to people pleasing and perfectionism – where they end up feeling almost erased or like they don’t have an identity of their own. Navigating issues like college, marriage, children, and managing extended family can feel so overwhelming.
Whatever phase of life you’re in, there are ways to carve out a more serving way of handling them and deciding who you want to be through all of this AND who you’d like to be as a result of all of this.
How I can help
I can help by helping you feel heard and seen, and I can assure you I’ll strive to understand your story and the areas of life being affected. Then we’ll create a plan to help you be the person you’re striving to be.
I will help you develop the mindset and practice using tools that can help you write the story you wish to be read and have a life well-lived and YES even though there are or were circumstances that definitely feel overwhelming.
إِنَّ هَـٰذَا كَانَ لَكُمْ جَزَآءً وَكَانَ سَعْيُكُم مَّشْكُورًا
And they will be told, “All this is surely a reward for you. Your striving has been appreciated.”
Surah Al-Insan, Verse 22
Islamic-Integrated Care
There are plenty of secular therapists out there, and I think many of them do fantastic work, but the purely secular approach is not the work I exclusively do. My aim is to understand your story which is layered with religion, culture, and a lot of journey! I will meet you where you are and see what matters most to you, then as a team, we’ll work on building the life you love. Building that life requires us to look inward and see how to get that vision outward. For the vast majority of my clients, this includes spirituality. Let’s take care of you from the inside out – real soul care – in a way that replenishes, rejuvenates, and restores life so you can move in the direction you’re envisioning.
Neural-Informed Care
I’m a neural-informed therapist, which means I work on calming the inner messages the body is receiving from the outer world and we shift how the body interprets it while building new meaning. The brain is extremely ‘plastic’ which means it can develop new neural pathways and ways of responding to life. This is of course by divine design because all of the Islamic practices Allah swt has given us are in fact neural-informed!
Our goal is to understand how you are relating to your story and shift the way you relate to it. Being willing to observe the inner experiences can feel distressing in the moment, but we’ll practice in being present with yourself and working through it. That will prove to be EMPOWERING in sha Allah.
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