Meet Nadia

My Journey Into Counseling

With over 13 years of experience in therapy, coaching, and counseling, I've dedicated my career to helping individuals unlearn and break old patterns so they can have satisfying lives and healthy supportive connections.

I have a Master's in Social Work with a specialization in Advanced Clinical Practice from Columbia University. During my career I have worked in many different environments ranging from private practice, shelters, community mental health centers, and distance counseling with a broad range of clients with diverse needs. My clinical training has focused on trauma informed care, My specialized training includes cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), trauma-informed care, and psychoanalysis.

I work with individuals from diverse backgrounds, each with their unique stories and challenges. I believe that the journey to wellness is deeply personal, and I use a person centered approach to provide my clients with a compassionate space to explore their history and support them as we make a plan for a better future together.

/ My Story /

Why I do this work

Like many of us, I grew up seeing a lot of unhealthy relationships. As a kid I remember hearing the adults gossip about other people's dysfunctional marriages, and watching them stuck in suffocating, unsatisfying, or even abusive relationships. Even then, I understood that something was wrong and there had to be something better.

I wanted to understand why so many of us were sacrificing our lives and abandoning ourselves for someone who would never reciprocate.

Determined to learn and do something about it, I did my Master's in Social Work at Columbia University, where I graduated cum laude with a specialization in Advanced Clinical Practice. I worked with victims of domestic violence and human trafficking, families and individuals living in the New York City public housing system, as well as private practice.

I've had my own struggles in life, so while I've had the benefit of clinical training on my side I've also lived the experience that I strive to guide my clients through. My own journey of confronting my patterns and belief systems have changed me in ways I could have never imagined, and I can honestly say they helped me become the person I needed to become.

Outside of my counseling work, I'm an avid traveler, language learner, and baker. I spent two years traveling full time while living out of a suitcase, I've lived on 4 continents, visited over 20 countries, and I speak 3 languages. I used to host my own podcast and read tarot professionally.

My mission is to support you heal and grow so you too can overcome the difficult times in your life, and create something better than you could have ever imagined.

My Therapeutic Philosophy

We grow up with ideas and beliefs about how we do things, that are not our own, and it is our duty to ourselves to challenge those so we can become the person we are meant to be

Relationships and loving connections are essential to our joy, well-being, and experience on this earth. Everyone deserves and is capable of fostering loving connections, and it takes courage to ask for help.

We must love and invest in ourselves, before we can be ready and able to fully show up for others

It simply isn't enough to know what we want to stop doing- our goals and desire for connection is what lights our path and to do that we must honor our own needs and truth.

Who I Work With

I work with individuals who feel emotionally stuck in a relationship they can’t fully let go of—often with someone who has been inconsistent, unavailable, or difficult to move on from.

Many of my clients identify as the “strong one”—the one who gives, understands, and stays, even when the relationship becomes one-sided or draining.

Here are some things that my clients tell me they are going through:

• Thinking about someone long after the relationship has ended

• Struggling to let go, even when you know it isn’t healthy

• Replaying conversations or questioning what went wrong

• Feeling responsible for fixing or holding the relationship together

• Drawn to partners who are emotionally unavailable or inconsistent

Even if you know they aren't for you on a logical level, the emotional attachment can be strong and difficult to shift.

Counseling provides a space to understand these patterns, process the attachment, and begin to create healthy and stable connections in a way that feels freeing and grounded.

My approach is collaborative, thoughtful, and grounded in attachment-based and trauma-informed care.

Our work will focus on understanding the patterns that keep you feeling stuck, while also building the tools and insight needed to create lasting change.

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Our mission is to empower individuals to overcome life's challenges through professional psychological support.