Educational background: 

Rasha received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she specialized in Psychology. She completed her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy, at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California.

Fields of specialization and training:

Couple and Family therapy, premarital counseling, relationship problems and infidelity, childhood disorders, parenting, personality disorders, treatment of addiction, co-dependency, mood disorders, anxiety disorders and OCD, trauma issues, abuse, sexual assault, mindfulness, eating disorders, self-empowerment, and transformational healing.

In the US and Canada, Rasha worked with individuals, children, adolescents, families, and couples seeking therapy for relationship issues, addiction, eating disorders, infidelity, depression, anxiety, and trauma. In Jordan, she also served as a school counselor at the Ahliyyah School for Girls, where she provided support and guidance to adolescent females who were experiencing emotional and academic difficulties. Her areas of expertise include addiction, codependency, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and relationship issues.

Rasha utilizes an integrative therapeutic approach, working with her clients in a collaborative and insightful process. Her clinical approach has a very positive theoretical orientation that believes people are competent and resourceful. The focus is on weaving in acceptance with change, exploring how her clients (individuals, couples, or families) would like things to be different, how to make those differences happen and to recognize what signs indicate changes are happening. Rasha utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) techniques to encourage her clients to challenge distorted thoughts, change destructive patterns of behavior, learn and use new skills and strategies to develop a life that they experience as worth living. DBT skills include skills for mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Rasha’s goal is to use evidence-based treatment to help clients increase their emotional and cognitive regulation by learning about the triggers that lead to reactive states and helping to assess which coping skills to apply in the sequence of events, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to help avoid undesired reactions. She also supports her clients in experiencing a greater connection to their Authentic Self and a deeper experience of the sacredness of their lives. Rasha is dedicated to empowering people to transform and heal themselves psychologically, physically and emotionally. She helps clients to quiet their mind and tap into their own resources through alternative techniques to help diminish anxiety and impulsivity. Rasha works collaboratively with her clients to enhance their capacity to socially connect, increase satisfaction in interpersonal relationships, reduce undesirable and compulsive behaviors, and manage life issues. Her work is guided by a tenacious vision of vibrant communities where individuals thrive, succeed, and realize their unique potential of mind, body, and spirit.