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Areas of Focus

What I Focus On

  • Adolescent and preadolescent girls’ issues and life transitions

  • Young adult and college-age issues and life transitions

  • Anxiety treatment strategies for children and teens

  • BIPOC identities (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and racial stress

  • Disability and chronic illness-related issues and identity

  • Healing from trauma, shame, and post-traumatic stress

  • Gay, lesbian, pansexual, bisexual, queer, and asexual identities in youth

  • Gender-affirming care letters of support for youth and adults

  • Gender-expansive, transgender, and nonbinary identities in youth

  • Neurodivergent-affirming care for Autistic, ADHD, and other neurodivergent clients

  • ​Healing relationships with food and body; healing from diet culture and weight stigma 

  • Mindfulness skills and mindful self-compassion practice for youth

  • Processing microaggressions

  • Self-care and resilience for youth with marginalized identities

  • Parent Support sessions/Parent Coaching for parents of youth with identities and concerns described above

What I Don't Offer

  • ​Couples counseling

  • Court-mandated therapy

  • Crisis response or 24-hour services

  • Custody evaluations

  • Intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, or residential mental health services

  • Psychiatric medication prescriptions

  • I am not currently taking on new adult clients for ongoing therapy

©2025 by Parisa Emam. Headshot photo by Lynn Savercool Photography. Other images sourced from Wix and Unsplash.

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