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My experience with trauma, war, oppression, and revolution in my own country led me to psychotherapy as a way of understanding and processing the effects of trauma. I have more than a decade of experience working in New York City public schools and providing social and emotional support for urban youth who have struggled with poverty, injustice, and abuse. I offer a mixture of talk therapy, hypnotherapy, EMDR, and Reiki. I take a holistic approach, see my work as a partnership, and believe everyone has the tools and wisdom to be happy. I work with clients who want to explore their different inner parts, find more wholeness, and heal. I focus on issues of trauma, self-esteem, healthy relationships, addiction, anxiety, LGBTQ+-issues, polyamory/non-monogamy, systemic oppression, immigration, and dissociation. Together we can change the narrative around mental health. https://www.atashyaghmaian.com/about daily 0.75 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/4901407c-752e-45e8-990b-d955bbd93de0/Atash+Yahhmaian.jpeg About - Hello my name is Atash, my name means fire… I’m a psychotherapist, writer, and memoirist who is passionate about expanding public understanding of trauma, dissociation, and healing. As a psychotherapist in private practice, I work with individuals navigating trauma, identity, and harmony between their inner parts. I have also been a founding member of Harvest Collegiate High School in Manhattan, where I served as Director of Counseling, building progressive, student-centered approaches to mental health support in schools. Through both my clinical work and personal storytelling, I aim to foster awareness and reduce stigma around mental health, bringing complex psychological experiences into accessible conversations. My creative nonfiction has appeared in Ms. Magazine, The New York Daily News, Invisible Illness, CounterPunch, Thrive Global, and more. My debut memoir, My Name Means Fire (Beacon Press, October 14, 2025), explores resilience, survival, and life with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Below you can click through some examples of my published writing. For new publication inquiries, you can contact me right here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/f4d43b79-8897-4a1b-aa81-6b2838a827ee/My+Name+Means+Fire+Book+Cover.png https://www.atashyaghmaian.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/e851ccb0-3d46-4c89-bf92-cd1dfcafdf9d/My+Name+Means+Fire+Book+Cover.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/e29050c4-f45a-4ad6-b787-e75500821255/Header+Image+Atash+Yaghmaian.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/9b108942-d180-4ed4-976b-7483e4324c6a/Screenshot+2026-03-12+at+6.00.26+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/d70d1d42-5628-431c-b23d-4b9cd2a6f26f/Atash+Yaghmaian+Tucson+Book+Festival.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/9ee94ce5-5adb-47e1-aadc-4c9ac25aca63/Screenshot+2025-09-23+at+2.01.27+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/56ea0791-c361-447e-8333-c81b2ba87336/2.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/6cfb5bb2-5054-42c7-b55d-621bcb1d57f1/NY+Daily+News Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/04c733a2-3fe9-47a5-a239-55cff86e7667/Ms.+American+feminist+magazine Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/64d87afd-eef5-41ce-934b-595372cbc614/Nasiona.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/717bb0fe-a215-4308-a1a6-a4d743a40874/Ruminate+Magazine Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629504132627-6OYBGPEIIIGBFI9UKFBG/Medium-Logo-Black-RGB%402x.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/841b9a15-2ab5-414a-87f7-60c771dc708c/Lit+Hub+Logo.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/c30fc587-20aa-4678-9cc8-53880da85a00/Atash_BlueWhand_2410_RT.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/e31a7112-0253-4bd1-9cab-2488cd02c0ea/Atash_RedWhite_1923_RT.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617234411811-TYGST4V3SL4DKTOIXHLQ/priscilla-du-preez-7ilpPBxTavU-unsplash.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617427781113-3HRS6R6IFEZ81Y56SNPH/Article+Images+%2816%29.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617233952940-AJ006NXGCJI202IWIV7V/kira-auf-der-heide-HU1pjVyVdXI-unsplash.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617376915522-ANL09HES7A5FIQTFJGX0/joshua-hibbert-Pn6iimgM-wo-unsplash.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/8bafd031-2dd7-4a27-9c5c-be52cafd7975/unsplash-image-ktPKyUs3Qjs.jpg Home - Looking for a thoughtful way to help out someone you know? Sometimes it takes a helping hand to reach out to a therapist. If you’re looking for a thoughtful gift for someone you care about, why not support them with access to therapy? Both gift certificates and discount packages can be tailored to your request, click through below for more details and enquiries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1616519900048-CQ2OSWR9KIMVTSQQTUQB/unsplash-image-ci2xMOzRfWk.jpg Home - “Atash has a way with people, and an incredibly healing presence that you sense from the moment you meet her - through her voice, her touch and her writing. I have known her for a short time, but in that period she has already taught me so much” — Evgenia Baydikova https://www.atashyaghmaian.com/published-work daily 0.75 2025-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/f0d138f5-e347-4b93-85bc-0c6d0414454d/Lit+Hub+Essay+Atash+Yaghmaian.png Published Work - A Different Side of the Self: On Finding Freedom By Telling My Story in English - Lit Hub When it came time to write my memoir, My Name Means Fire, I chose to write it in English. “In English, I’m just someone—free, unclaimed, and therefore, for the first time, self-defined.” Had I written about my life in Persian, I would have softened the edges. I might have told the story of a girl who left Iran, but I would never have talked about… Click here for a neudivergent-friendly version of the full essay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/4005b6e8-e27e-4a7c-925a-f88771b5e330/Screenshot+2025-11-09+at+4.46.09+PM.png Published Work - In conversation with Arrivals Podcast - Stories of Resilience and Reinvention Conversations with first-generation immigrant women building new lives from scratch. Every episode explores real decisions, tensions, and transformations behind leaving home, starting over, and figuring out who they are in places that don’t always see them clearly. Iranian-American therapist, writer, and activist Atash Yaghmaian joins Arrivals to discuss her debut memoir, My Name Means. We discuss stigma, how writing helped recover memories, leaving Iran at nineteen, and building a life in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/d6224560-4489-43f2-9705-bf55bfe6074f/Pleasure+Report.png Published Work - An interview with Sue Jaye Johnson for The Pleasure Report on Substack I met Atash Yaghmaian the way I meet all my friends these days, on the dance floor. Over coffee in the East Village, Atash and I got to talking about her childhood in Iran during the revolution and the trauma inflicted on her from an early age by strangers and family alike…Several months into our friendship, she leaned in and whispered to me, “I am multiple.” “Meaning what?” I asked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/67911627-9496-4093-9802-3608ee5819a2/Shelf+Awareness+Interview.jpg Published Work - “Maximum Shelf - My Name Means Fire” - An interview with Shelf-Awareness In an interview with Terry Hong for Shelf Awanress, we answer the often-asked question: "But how did you survive?" plus many more. To endure a childhood defined by horrific experiences, we "left reality. Just like that." "Many people with our condition end up killing themselves.... We wrote this book for them, and for all who are ready to heal their childhood traumas." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/0e5c7716-edae-42a8-b196-8a9d6413badd/GettyImages-1243623360.jpg Published Work - “Are We Witnessing the Collapse of Iranian Patriarchy?” - Ms. Magazine The young men and women protesting in Iran today are not just fighting an Islamic regime. They are fighting their fathers’ and brothers’ passive agreement with the idea that female sexuality must be controlled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1711649693501-FCAKRSH5RNLRURLJ5YJB/image-asset.jpeg Published Work - “America Must See Iran With Clear Eyes” - The New York Daily News The current protests in Iran have filled immigrants like me with so many different emotions. But whatever happens, one of the most beautiful outcomes of this moment is that, for the first time, many Americans are seeing Iranians as separate from their government. Read this on the atashyaghmaian.com/blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/a25d6323-f953-407f-8943-52f2966f4b9d/AWM7V6NELJGFLACSRUWHZNTA7A.jpg Published Work - “In Iran, I Narrowly Avoided the Morality Police” - The Philadelphia Inquirer In the summer of 1988, while still in high school, I got involved with an underground feminist group in Tehran as a courier, secretly transporting backpacks full of pamphlets to other activists, who then distributed them at night to women’s clinics where nurses handed them out to patients. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/9ff5ede2-b0aa-473d-9d3f-a93b8fc51c8b/Atash+Yaghmaian.jpg Published Work - "How to Get Out of the People-Pleasing Cycle" - Medium People-pleasing is a method used by children to create safety. It’s a defense mechanism that creates a bit of order in the midst of chaos. People-pleasing will continue in adulthood as long as our childhood traumas remain untreated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1631325906953-7K9VK1INYRSGTZKQISWH/samuel-schneider-wEow4WdiAbg-unsplash.jpg Published Work - "It’s Not Too Late - What 9/11 And The War On Terror Taught Me About Courage And Relationships" - Medium I lived in a tent for a month. Not a refugee tent, though I am an immigrant from a war-torn country. But no, this was a dark-blue camping tent pitched in the middle of the living room, because I didn’t want to have anything to do with my boyfriend. And yet, I couldn’t leave him. I didn’t have a voice back then. So I gave myself a tent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629931512930-VE2BB7P4ZJRAYDPMMOSQ/1_V-Cl0GlV6TYQ_xutztlNkA.jpeg Published Work - "How I Turned My Love Of Keeping Secrets Into Two Fulfilling Careers" - The Invisible Illness, Medium Some people are born knowing what they want to do for a living. For others, it takes a lifetime of hustle and trial-and-error to figure that out. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how long it takes to find your vocation, or where you start. Sometimes, the most unlikely of jobs can put you on the path towards a fulfilling career. Since I was a little girl in Iran, I’ve always loved stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629931759412-GV8GIRKXU50RRECIXE77/Screen+Shot+2021-08-25+at+5.49.00+PM.png Published Work - “How I Learned To Break Free From The Idea That I Am Cursed” - The Invisible Illness, Medium I killed someone. Or so I thought. When I was a little girl in Tehran, during the Iran-Iraq War, the radios would often speak lovingly of the dead. “Such an honor to have been chosen by God,” they’d say of the martyrs who died fighting. I wondered where this place of honor was or how people reached it, but I never thought to be sad. Death was a privilege I was still too young to know. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629932410783-GRY74V4ZO4OZN5LW7K8O/1_gN0egDqRYakFKi8zQVuU2Q.png Published Work - "How To Know If You Are Pulling A Geographic" - The Invisible Illness, Medium Have you ever thought about changing or improving your life by moving to a new location? It’s called “pulling a geographic” and I first heard of the term in a twelve-step program. It immediately got my attention. “Pulling a geographic” means changing one’s physical environment in the hopes that one’s problems will magically go away in the new place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629932635587-BTSMVQUVG42FTD6Y0C47/1_NDx8BFKuSdUM0LOF17CiAg.jpeg Published Work - "How The Midnight Express Came To Our Rescue During Our Family Reunion" - Medium I hadn’t thought about my brother much since I’d left Iran. I assumed he’d found his own way. But one day, when I was on the phone with my folks back home, I asked to speak with him. “Your brother isn’t talking,” my father said. “To me?” “To anyone,” he said. “He refuses to see a neurologist or even a family doctor. It’s been like this ever since he was released.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1628171139750-43S6CDW48LYRA6Z2UZLP/1_gOMrralJ3S04sTgL1hF5pQ.jpg Published Work - “How to Stop Self-Sabotage Through Self-Awareness” - The Invisible Illness, Medium When I came to America, I learned a lot about the importance of being an individual. I loved that idea. It wasn’t something I was exposed to much in Iran. My own childhood experience was defined by being told that I had to sacrifice everything for my family and community. I learned to feel that I was nobody; as though, on my own, I didn’t exist… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1626104927090-BEDCSNFYOZATG2E2M2N4/conscious-design-tOOtLKRC8GY-unsplash.jpg Published Work - “How to Change Old Patterns to Heal New Relationships” - Thrive Global As a therapist, I get this question a lot. “How do you know what is the right relationship for you?” I sense that my clients are looking for an easy checklist, but the answer I give is a bit tougher. The good news is that the answer to this question often already lies within you - your past and old patterns that persist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1625679177362-VA3Y11JOIDUF2BD9A284/Photo+by+Tara+Winstead+via+Pexels Published Work - “Overcoming Trauma Through Positive Affirmations” - Thrive Global I connected to the power of affirmations back in graduate school. I had heard about mantras and knew that words have power, but I never really thought affirmations would have a concrete effect on my mental health, until I started actually working with them. I’m going to share with you what I have learned in my life and clinical practice about how to use positive affirmations to create new visions of what is possible… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1626001021936-Z1KEXPE20NRC73M5JTZ2/House+of+Stone Published Work - “How the House of Stone Saved my Life” - The Invisible Illness, Medium Trauma is widespread, and most people experience some form of trauma during the course of their lives. I myself am a survivor of complex trauma and can attest to its tenacity and destructiveness. I’m also a therapist who has seen, time and again, that healing trauma really is possible: through talking, writing, transparency, and sharing stories. This is why I am dedicated to sharing some of the things I have learned, both personally and professionally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1616514254034-C90SH2HHT931M3GCLPC3/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-23%2Bat%2B10.42.21%2BAM.jpg Published Work - “Pishi” - Immigrant Report Ever since I was young, I’ve lost track of time. When I was a child and lived in Iran, whole days and weeks would disappear, along with all the bad things that happened to me during that time. When I was older and studied psychology in America, I learned about dissociation and its roots in trauma. I was an undocumented immigrant living in New Jersey in the first a few years of my arrival to America. I had moved from New York to the Jersey Shore in hopes of studying at Atlantic Community College, the only college that accepted me without papers… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1616293762533-VJLAYEBBMZBAE0PPYSZ3/IMG_0719.jpg Published Work - “Love Letters” - The Nasiona I had very little freedom as a teen in Iran. My stepfather kept a close eye on me. He used to drop me off and pick me up from school to make sure I wasn’t doing anything to “damage our family’s reputation,” so the only time I could be alone was when I cut classes and hung out down by the beach. We had moved away from the busy city of Tehran to a deserted town on the Caspian Sea, because my mother suffered from severe social anxiety and couldn’t deal with any noise. As a kid, I used to love being there and looked forward to summer vacations, but as a teen, life there felt small, isolated and lonely… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617644760493-59XVC143LBDIZIV73I0F/img_4882.jpeg Published Work - “How to ruin a Persian wedding” - Ruminate Magazine (2020 VanderMey Non-fiction Prize) The summer I was seventeen, my mother’s preoccupation with marrying me off to a rich suitor reached a fever pitch. I wanted to get out of her house too, believe me, but I fantasized about being like those independent heroines in Western novels who are optimistic but alone. “Tomorrow is another day,” I would tell my mother, after sifting through all of Scarlett O’Hara’s lines from the Persian translation of Gone With the Wind we kept around the house. “Akh akh,” my mother would say. “Disgusting. You want all those dead husbands and divorces, don’t you?” But she backed off — for a while, at least… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617656739118-Q1TCAJ1IDK568JCCUN7G/img_6431.jpg Published Work - “I heard his voice” - 34th Parallel (Issue 70) Marco was waiting for me outside Jivamukti Yoga Studios, leaning against a white Ferrari. He held the door for me and I got in. “Okay, yoga girl,” he said. “What do you feel like eating?” “I don’t care,” I said. “Let’s just drive.” This was our first date. Spring 1998. We drove to the South Street Seaport. We walked around talking about our moms and watched the bridges that span two boroughs… Read the full story in my Blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617657407587-5NQLRAT05EQ5DIORV1FE/img_0624.jpg Published Work - “Surviving a Traumatic Childhood With the Help of Imaginary Friends” - The Mighty I was so happy to find out it was normal to have imaginary friends. I learned this information in my college child development class one day, when my professor spoke to us at length about the “boy” who kept him company when he was young. My professor was a lonely, only child, but he had an invisible friend with whom he would eat meals and share his toys. “After a few years,” my professor said, “I outgrew the whole thing.” “Did he just admit to having an imaginary friend?” I asked the girl next to me. She giggled and nodded… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617657762482-J71HVF6F8YU27BKCFGXB/img_3766.jpeg Published Work - “We Children of the Revolution” - Counter Punch In 1978, I was a seven-year-old girl living in Tehran. My memories from that time are child-like and simple, yet I often find that what I experienced then has shed more light on my understanding of today’s Iran than any current political analysis could do. As I watch the protests against the Ahmadinejad regime unfold from my new home in Brooklyn halfway across the world, I am struck by how similar the spirit of the current protests are to the uprisings that occurred almost exactly thirty years ago. People often ask me if I think the supporters of Mousavi will undo what the Iranian Revolution accomplished in the late seventies – as if these two movements were fundamentally different. I tell them, optimistically, that what we are witnessing today is simply the continuation – and hopefully fulfillment – of what my parents started when I was a child… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/f4d43b79-8897-4a1b-aa81-6b2838a827ee/My+Name+Means+Fire+Book+Cover.png https://www.atashyaghmaian.com/get-in-touch daily 0.75 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/c30fc587-20aa-4678-9cc8-53880da85a00/Atash_BlueWhand_2410_RT.jpg Get in touch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/f4d43b79-8897-4a1b-aa81-6b2838a827ee/My+Name+Means+Fire+Book+Cover.png https://www.atashyaghmaian.com/psychotherapy daily 0.75 2021-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617234583785-OLKXUJ5LPTB2E0QFDCFK/priscilla-du-preez-7ilpPBxTavU-unsplash.jpg Psychotherapy - Connect deeply with your inner self We begin with a positive relationship between therapist and client and use that relationship to explore a client’s past and the ways that past is still present in unconscious actions and beliefs. Through psychotherapy, clients learn to connect to their own feelings and find clarity and ease with their inner, sometimes wounded, parts. In learning to communicate with ourselves and meet our own needs, we can learn to communicate and relate to others more effectively and harmoniously. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629556749708-ISQD7TF1L5KSEX1VA6O4/Article+Images+%2816%29.png Psychotherapy Hypnotherapy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629556812092-JJ9TMJZ3MI6GXX1KYLXJ/kira-auf-der-heide-HU1pjVyVdXI-unsplash.jpg Psychotherapy Reiki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629556787746-JQYH1BBYD90S1XZGQIGB/joshua-hibbert-Pn6iimgM-wo-unsplash.jpg Psychotherapy Supervision https://www.atashyaghmaian.com/hypnotherapy daily 0.75 2021-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617427354058-Z7IA2NOA6QSMSJ9YOR8I/Article%252BImages%252B%25252816%252529.jpg Hypnotherapy - Treat post-traumatic stress disorder Learn to let go of painful experiences from the past! Using techniques of relaxation and age-regression, I help clients create a safe space in which they can revisit and heal their experiences with violence, helplessness, humiliation, and loss. Address anxiety Learn to stop worrying! Using techniques of relaxation, breath-work, and focusing, I help clients find the source of their anxiety and develop healthy self-esteem in relation to their stresses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1616528877067-1R27M03UCZ0ZMBT1SPC7/unsplash-image-hicppTzIH4E.jpg Hypnotherapy - Overcome addiction Learn to treat addictive behavior and prevent relapsing! Working with clients to access the unconscious anger and resentment underlying their compulsive behavior, I help them let go of their addictions to drugs, alcohol, sex, and shopping, and to strengthen their sense of self-worth. Face up to fears and phobias Learn to move beyond irrational feelings of panic and dread! Using techniques of relaxation and age-regression, I help clients locate the unconscious conflicts underlying their fears and phobias, and to move forward in their lives and relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617235290640-DSMFN1XH4J5WRFTOGWE7/unsplash-image-IE8kJWAK13w.jpg Hypnotherapy - Embrace life transitions Learn to face the future with confidence! Using techniques of relaxation and positive suggestion, I help clients develop new, healthy relationships to their experiences with breakup, job loss, immigration, and death. Quit smoking Learn to stop smoking and keep it that way! Using a four-session model, I help clients recognize and gain control over the emotions underlying their cravings for cigarettes, and how to eliminate these through implanting positive suggestions in their minds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629556859781-GRZXNADX0BRZA6Q6GHBC/unsplash-image-HU1pjVyVdXI.jpg Hypnotherapy Reiki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629556880384-CTQMLU1VT3B9VXXV8DDN/joshua-hibbert-Pn6iimgM-wo-unsplash.jpg Hypnotherapy Supervision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629556901352-CM0ZVRKS9YWGIPUW1HIA/priscilla-du-preez-7ilpPBxTavU-unsplash.jpg Hypnotherapy Psychotherapy https://www.atashyaghmaian.com/reiki daily 0.75 2021-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617236544539-YIFMANGF183G7OG40ONY/kira-auf-der-heide-HU1pjVyVdXI-unsplash.jpg Reiki - Reduce chronic pain Reiki has been shown to be effective in dealing with chronic pains that Western medicine cannot diagnose or eliminate. Working with my clients’ perception of pain in the body, I help them explore and resolve emotional and energetic conflicts underlying these physical experiences. Address grief and depression Reiki is a highly effective way of working with clients who are not yet able to verbalize their feelings of sadness and low motivation. By working first on the level of their life energy, I help them begin to explore their emotions by instilling a sense of vitality, energy, and potential. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617237146633-O0Q1PSWFGQZLOS3S3PDV/unsplash-image-EyklrWNBxSM.jpg Reiki - Build self-confidence Reiki helps clients feel empowered in their personal lives and careers. By working on their level of life energy we locate both blocks and sources of inner strength, and help them to develop a sense of conviction and possibility in their life pursuits. Relieve cancer suffering & boost recovery Although no conclusive scientific research has been conducted with regards to the efficacy of Reiki in treating cancer, there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence that Reiki treatment helps to boost the body’s immune system and its response to both cancer and chemotherapy. Reiki is a powerful way of helping sick patients deal with emotional issues that have arisen as a result of their illness. Reiki is non-invasive and thus fully compatible with Western methods of treating cancer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1616531546086-FF1OOFRNNWBADO0KHG8Y/unsplash-image-HN_4K2diUWs.jpg Reiki - Recover from sexual / physical abuse Clients with a history of sexual and physical abuse can benefit from Reiki treatment in conjunction with psychological methods such as hypnosis. By using Reiki along with these latter methods, I help clients discover a sense of empowerment in their bodies that is crucial for their overall healing-process. Boost immunity Clients suffering from chronic colds, sluggishness, or other minor, yet persistent, symptoms report that Reiki helps them feel a greater sense of vitality and well-being. Again, scientific data on Reiki is lacking, yet anecdotal evidence is abundant. In helping clients with immune-system issues, I often use Reiki in conjunction with psychological methods in order to discover emotional issues underlying their symptoms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629556514673-N8JEPYT51PHYG57ZZA2P/joshua-hibbert-Pn6iimgM-wo-unsplash.jpg Reiki Supervision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629556541726-DN3WHCT0MV01QS54MWMO/priscilla-du-preez-7ilpPBxTavU-unsplash.jpg Reiki Psychotherapy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1629556566109-DHD0BAPFPH322GWZDGT7/Article+Images+%2816%29.png Reiki Hypnotherapy https://www.atashyaghmaian.com/supervision daily 0.75 2021-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617237897954-GZW91MTSRS10WYY1IIR5/unsplash-image-Pn6iimgM-wo.jpg Supervision - Immigration & social justice I work with clients who have experienced immigration and/or political oppression have very specific experiences with loss. In supervision, I teach professionals a concrete set of skills to address the social and emotional needs of this population. Abuse & trauma I specialize in working with clients who have experienced extreme disturbances in their lives due to violence, sexual abuse, incest, surgery, and torture - all of which require special types of clinical engagement. In supervision, I teach professionals to work with these populations and bring out the inner strengths these survivors possess. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605636c96fe61c2e1e792c9c/1617238356093-LL92JGB6UAVOSKYGGFFJ/unsplash-image-yB_RH7UNpgw.jpg Supervision - Overcome addiction Clients who struggle with addiction of any kind tend to be stigmatized in one way or another. In supervision, we discuss the disease-model of addiction and how to support recovery in a shame-free way. Energy imbalances Clients who suffer from anxiety, phobia, and/or disorganized thought-processes often pose a special challenge for professionals seeking to locate the source of the problem. 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