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