About Me

Fatima is a registered clinical counsellor and is certified in Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT), grief and bereavement therapy, and cultural and spiritual counselling. Her work focuses on a trauma informed care that includes focuses on physical and mental health holistically.

Over the past six years, I have worked in mental health services. In this time, I gained experience in supporting people with a variety of mental health needs such as:

• Mindfulness and coping strategy development

• Trauma and emotion processing

• Individual family therapy

• Identity growth and explorations

• Cultural and spiritual

Prior to working in Mental Health, I spent eleven years working in childcare. I have worked as a Behavioural Interventionist with children and youth on the Autism Spectrum and other special needs. For the past three years, I have been a Mental Health Worker, supporting those with psychiatric and concurrent disorders through Psychosocial Rehabilitation.

I am an active member of the British Columbia Muslim community and am passionate about advocating for the acceptance of Mental Health issues in small communities.

I am empathic, mindful, solution focused and I value communication skills.

I am a Canadian born- Gujarati, Indian who grew up in the municipality of Richmond. I grew up with a dual cultural identity that left me feeling “different” than my peers. I experienced an identity and values crisis at a young age that had me facing difficult ethical and moral questions that shaped me into who I am now. While this is a simple statement, that encompasses over thirty years of life, it is also always an ongoing growth and development.

I take a compassionate, safe, nonjudgemental space, with a mindful, solution-focused approach, and a collaborative process that guides the therapeutic trajectory. Whatever the need is, lets work together to explore what your mental health and begin the process of discovering your growth mindset.