Hananah Zaheer (she/her)
Clinical Intern, Northwestern University
Hi there! I'm Hananah, and I am a multi-lingual (English/Urdu/Punjabi) clinical mental health counselor-in-training at Three Oaks.
My practice is open to all adults, from any background. I look forward to supporting you with issues of anxiety, depression, family, relationships, work, school, acculturative stress, and identity exploration. As someone who has spent a fair bit of my life moving between and across continents, I have a special interest in working with folx from South Asia, East or South East Asia, and the Middle East and those who identify as refugees, immigrants and Third Culture Kids. I am psychodynamic, existential, feminist, and culturally-aware in nature, and utilize an integrative, anti oppressive, anti-racist and LGBTQIA+ affirming lens. All of you is welcome in any shape or form in my therapeutic space.
My most cherished personal values are those of creativity, flexibility, non-judgement and openness, and it is with these that I try to engage the world, and will look to engage your life and experience. I uphold the idea that “you are your best thing” (Toni Morrison, Beloved), and hope to stand beside you with curiosity, humility and acceptance as you (re)discover your own life and self.
Being a lifelong learner, I believe that learning and change can happen at any age, no matter your context, experience or background. My current pursuit of a degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Northwestern University followed a twenty year career writing, editing and teaching university undergraduates. Before that, I studied Creative Writing and Psychology and trained in Photography and Improv and, I’d like to think, a little bit of life. When not working, I can be found anywhere there is the marrow of life to be had, usually in travel or books or art or around food with friends or on a dance floor or on a sofa in the company of my family.
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email | hananah@threeoaksbehavioralhealth.com