Azita Afshar

Dr. Afshar is a certified trauma-informed therapist and has been in private practice for 15-years (and over 20-years in clinical practice). She has mostly worked with individuals aged, 20-65, with struggles pertaining to: a complex trauma or abuse history; extreme interpersonal/relational distress (sometimes referred to as attachment trauma;) co-dependent dynamics (typically presenting as preoccupation with managing the needs/feelings of others & avoidance of conflict and one's own emotions/needs;) lack of sense of purpose/value; difficulty knowing/understanding own emotions; self-neglect; difficulty with self-soothing/regulation of emotions; excessive self-doubt and self-hatred; extreme perfectionism; difficulty with setting and maintaining boundaries; difficulty with trusting own sense of things; extreme procrastination; excessive feelings of shame and guilt; fixation with a loss of control/excessive need for control; loss of interest in life; suicidality; fear of vulnerability, etc. These struggles often times appear as the labels of: Major Depression; Anxiety; Disordered Eating; Alcoholism; Bipolar Disorder; Borderline Personality, C-PTSD, ADHD...

Dr. Afshar has been trained in a variety of models including: psychodynamic, IFS, & cognitive behavioral techniques. Most recently, the bulk of her work is trauma-informed, relying heavily on attachment-based models of therapy, as well as sensorimotor, mindfulness, and neurologically informed interventions.

Dr. Afshar understands that here is a rhyme and reason to how we feel and react to the world, and none of it is about being "wrong," "damaged," or "not good enough" (words she often hears from individuals in her practice). Dr. Afshar would like to help you learn ways to soothe and heal any hurting parts, so that you may be able to to work and live with yourself and others in a more loving, fun, rewarding, and reciprocal fashion. She believes healing is possible for anyone who wants it to be possible and is ready and able to work at it.