Shahreyar is a Mental Health Counsellor whose work is grounded in curiosity, reflection, and a deep interest in what makes us human. He helps clients understand themselves through thoughtful, collaborative, and emotionally honest conversations. His work is especially suited for people navigating grief, identity questions, life transitions, relational pain, shame, loneliness, trauma, existential uncertainty, and periods of feeling disconnected from themselves or others.
Drawing on psychodynamic, relational, somatic, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity-affirming approaches, Shahreyar integrates philosophical inquiry, attachment theory, neuroscience, creativity, and contemplative traditions into his work. Influenced by Eastern perspectives such as non-dualism and ideas of non-self, he welcomes conversations about meaning, change, belonging, and the tension between who we think we are and who we are becoming.
Shahreyar believes that many struggles are not signs of brokenness, but understandable adaptations to difficult experiences, relationships, or environments. Therapy offers a space to better understand emotional patterns, attachment, self-criticism, identity, and the stories we inherit, repeat, resist, or unconsciously construct ourselves.
As a multicultural therapist with a South Asian/Central Asian background, Shahreyar approaches therapy through an intersectional, socially informed lens. His immigrant experience shapes how he understands the subjectivity of social norms, particularly in the United States, and the loneliness that comes with it, as well as the emotional complexity of living between cultures. He has extensive experience working with international and immigrant populations adjusting to life in the United States and works especially well with people of colour, neurodivergent individuals, queer and questioning individuals, and those navigating identity, belonging, migration, family expectations, and life between worlds.
About Shahreyar
Hello!Education
New York University Steinhardt: Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling
University of Houston, C. T. Bauer College of Business: Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing
Kansai Gakuin University (関西学院大学): Study Abroad Semester, Nishinomiya, Japan
Highlights
Fluent in English, Urdu/Hindi and Pashto, Conversational in Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese
Cross-cultural lived experience across Pakistan, Japan, and the United States
Completed Janina Fisher’s Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment training
Services
Individual Therapy
Relational Psychodynamic Therapy
Trauma Informed Therapy
Neurodiversity Affirming Therapy
LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy
Cross-Cultural and Immigrant Adjustment
Identity Exploration and Life Transitions
Somatic Awareness and Grounding
Mindfulness Techniques
Existential and Meaning Centered Therapy
In-Person Therapy and Teletherapy
Specialties
Trauma and Relational Wounds
Anxiety and Shame
Identity and Belonging
Life Transitions and Loss
Cross-Cultural Adjustment
Immigration Stress
LGBTQIA+ issues
Neurodivergence and High Masking Autism
Attachment and Relationships
Family Expectations and Cultural Conflict
Existential Questions and Meaning Making