Hi! My name is Dr. Sonia Amin. I am a licensed psychologist--licensed in California, District of Columbia and Maryland. I am a cis-gender South Asian woman who is passionate about helping folx learn to blossom into the best version of themselves. The foundation of my approach is rooted in social justice and liberation frameworks. This means an acknowledgement, honoring, and connecting of how our individual and collective communities’ histories, the histories of our ancestors (land and spiritual), and cultural backgrounds and identities influence our current lived experiences. My approach to therapy is integrated and holistic— mainly informed through psychodynamic and internal family-systems (insight-oriented), and somatic (body-focused). In sessions, we might focus on exploring thinking or behavioral patterns that are contributing to your current concerns (e.g. childhood experiences or family relationships, trauma, defenses, previous similar patterns), your relational patterns with others and your relationship with yourself, somatic movement/exercises, or processing and understanding your emotions. At times, I will use Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP) or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) if it is a better fit for your concerns.
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