Registered Social Worker
Hi, I’m Saba (she/her)
I work with individuals, couples, and families to support healing and growth. I offer services in English, Hindi and Urdu. My practice includes children (ages 4+), adolescents, and adults, and I help clients navigate a range of emotional and relational challenges – including anxiety, depression, stress, or life transitions. I also offer a special focus on trauma, including intergenerational trauma, as well as relationship concerns, and complex family dynamics.
I am especially passionate about supporting the BIPOC community as well as immigrants (whether first, second or third generation); and newcomers to find balance among different cultural and generational values; exploring cultural and racial identity, and offering a supportive space to process the complexities of belonging and adaptation. I prioritize creating a culturally sensitive and inclusive environment where all clients feel safe to explore their experiences.
With a deep understanding of the impact of intergenerational trauma, I support clients in exploring how family history, cultural background, and lived experience shape their emotional world today.
During our first session, we’ll work together to understand your present circumstances, identify your goals and create a plan to achieve them. Together, we’ll collaborate on a holistic, personalized therapeutic plan to that empowers and enables you to meet your specific goals, needs, and preferences. I am a trauma-informed therapist, which means that you have choice and voice in shaping our work together.
Depending on your goals, I may incorporate Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to help you identify and overcome barriers to reach meaningful goals in the short-and-long term. Or we may incorporate Emotion-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to help you understand and break through cycles or patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and help you move towards effective strategies to cope and heal. With younger clients, we may explore Play Therapy to facilitate self-expression, while processing feelings, and learning valuable skills to promote mental health and wellness.
I’ll work alongside you to foster greater clarity, connection, and resilience—helping you move toward the life and relationships you want. Let’s connect!
My Background:
In addition to my Master’s degree in Social Work and experience providing clinical psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families, I have volunteered as a crisis counsellor for 13 years. Throughout my career and volunteerism, I’ve developed an appreciation for how a person’s political, social, cultural and physical environment impact them.
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), First Aid and CPR
• Vice-Chair – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee – Thorold City Council (2022-Present)
• Crisis Counsellor – Kamatsiaqtut Helpline, Iqualuit
• Settlement Counsellor – CCIS Syrian Refugee Project to self-discovery and wellbeing.