About Me

How I see therapy

Schema Therapy is the foundation of my professional perspective.

In this approach we do not only look at “what the problem is right now.” We try to understand the deeper patterns behind our recurring feelings, behaviors, and relationships.

Schemas, modes, emotional needs, childhood experiences, and attachment patterns are not merely theoretical concepts for me. They are a way of understanding why a part of us sometimes becomes afraid, angry, submissive, distant, or repeats the same choices that ultimately lead to more suffering.

In my view, therapy is not only about recognizing these patterns. Recognition becomes valuable when it can lead to a real change in how we feel, choose, and relate.

I do not see therapy as a path toward “becoming a person without problems.” The goal is not that we never again feel sad, anxious, angry, or vulnerable. The goal is to know ourselves more deeply, understand which part of us has become activated in difficult moments, recognize our real need, and make healthier, more effective choices instead of old reactions.

In Schema Therapy we call this healthier, more balanced part the Healthy Adult. An important part of the work that matters to me is helping to strengthen this part — the part that can care for our vulnerable sides, set boundaries, take responsibility, express its needs, think more realistically, and still remain kind to itself.

For that reason, my clinical work is not limited to dialogue and cognitive analysis. Emotional experience, imagery, experiential techniques, hypnotherapy, emotion regulation, and compassion-focused approaches can also be part of the path. Because some things do not change through understanding alone; sometimes we need a new experience at a deeper level.

The approaches that shape my work

A significant part of my professional activity is focused on these areas and approaches:

Alongside these areas, I have also drawn on further specialist training such as EMDR and Ego State Therapy in my professional path.

Training therapists

Another important part of my work is dedicated to training psychologists and therapists. It has always mattered to me that professional education should not be merely a collection of theoretical concepts.

In courses and workshops I try to turn concepts into something a therapist can see, recognize, and use in the therapy room — from understanding schemas and modes to formulation, cognitive, behavioral, and experiential techniques, and the subtleties of the therapeutic relationship.

For me, training is valuable when a therapist does not leave a course with only “more information,” but returns to the next session with a sharper eye and more tools.

Psychology beyond the therapy room

Over these years, my interest in one question has grown more and more: how can psychological knowledge be taken out of the therapy room and become part of everyday life?

That question led my professional path to expand into teaching, writing, creating psychological resources, and developing digital tools.

Today my work is not limited to therapy sessions. It includes educational courses and workshops, books, hypnosis files and guided practices, tools and worksheets, and digital projects that have all been shaped around one shared aim:

Making psychology more practical and more accessible.

I want concepts that sometimes remain only in specialist books or the therapy room to help people understand themselves better, make healthier choices in difficult moments, and build a different relationship with themselves and others.

Becoming a mother and Wise Little Minds

Becoming a mother deepened my view of human emotional development.

Seeing a child’s inner world take shape up close made the importance of emotional needs, secure attachment, and the beliefs a child forms about themselves, others, and the world more tangible than ever.

This experience also strengthened my interest in prevention.

If we can attend, from the earliest years of life, to a sense of safety, worth, belonging, autonomy, and healthy emotional expression, we may be able to prevent some of the patterns that years later bring people into the therapy room.

Part of this perspective led to the creation of Wise Little Minds | ذهن‌های کوچک دانا — a series of psychological stories for children that try to bring concepts such as safety, worth, feelings, and emotional needs into a child’s world through the language of story.

Psychological projects and tools

This same interest in making psychology more practical has also led me to design and develop other projects.

Each of them, in a different way, tries to shorten the distance between psychological knowledge and everyday use of it — from books and education to digital tools and technology.

For me, technology is valuable when it can serve a better understanding of the human being, rather than replacing the human relationship and clinical thinking.

Competencies and professional areas

My professional work over the years has been accompanied by ongoing training across different areas of psychotherapy.

Among the fields that have formed an important part of my educational and professional path:

• Schema Therapy
• Hypnotherapy
• EMDR
• Ego State Therapy
• Compassion-focused approaches
• Attachment and relationships
• Couples therapy
• Emotion regulation
• Experiential techniques in psychotherapy
• Training and designing psychological interventions

My vision

If I were to summarize my professional path in one sentence, it might be this:

Building a bridge between the science of psychology and real life.

I believe that knowing ourselves more deeply is not only an individual experience.

When we learn to understand our feelings better, express our needs more healthily, care for our vulnerable parts, and make more conscious choices in our relationships, that change does not remain only inside us.

It moves into our relationships. Into our families. Into the way we see and raise our children. And perhaps even into the next generation.

And I would like to have a small part in building this path: more aware people, safer relationships, healthier families, and ultimately a kinder world.