Healing Matters Psychotherapy

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Healing Matters Psychotherapy

Elham Bagheri, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist I believe all humans have an innate drive toward authenticity, connection, and healing.

When we are able to feel authentically connected to our whole selves and others, optimal healing can occur and result in transformative experiences such as clarity, calmness, vitality, contentment, openness, creativity, generosity, and truth. I view the therapeutic space as an opportunity for connection, activation of innate healing resources, and transformative experiences. My clients’ healing is

my priority; however, I am very aware that we are both transformed. I am honored to have the opportunity to witness and have profound experiences with people who choose to allow me on their journey toward healing and growth. There are many different reasons that people seek therapy. Some of the reasons are past traumas, relationship difficulties, stress, life transitions, grief, depression, and anxiety. I have found that regardless of the reason that people come to see me, they are all searching for authentic connection to self and others, ability to tolerate and soothe distress, and happiness from within. My therapeutic approach is based on the premise that mind, body, and emotions interact with and influence one another and optimal healing requires that treatment address all three. I use a variety of methods aimed at harmonizing the connection between thoughts, sensations, and feelings. I also work from an understanding that individual, cultural, and societal factors influence health and the healing process. I also provide consultation and education services to mental health providers on a variety of topics including, trauma and ptsd, multicultural competence, sexual assault/domestic violence, immigrant populations, and Muslim American populations. If you would like to learn more about me and my services, please don't hesitate to call! I would be happy to have a free phone consultation with you.

06/11/2025

To those who identify as “people pleasers” know that the desire to help and please others is not the problem, it’s abandoning self to do so that is. And self abandonment is not the same as being inconvenienced. It’s ok and a part of healthy relationships to be occasionally inconvenienced to help or please others. So what is self abandonment? Some examples are:
- Behaving in ways that are incongruent with your values
- Giving more time, energy, money, etc..than you actually have to comfortably give, leaving little if anything for yourself
- Saying yes when your body is screaming no
- Prioritizing someone else’s pleasure over your sense of safety and comfort
- Trying to be who you think others want you to be vs who you actually are

The roots of self abandonment are complex, often it was a very adaptive survival mechanism necessary for safety in relationship with caregivers.

06/24/2024

The causes of depression are much more complex than the serotonin hypothesis suggests

04/04/2024

We’re not born knowing our needs matter, we learn it through consistent and reliable attunement to our needs from caregivers, enough of the time. It’s possible the part of you that feels unworthy of having needs is the part that holds all the neglect you’ve experienced. That part needs recognition, validation, and compassion. That part needs to hear, over and over and over again, “your needs were not met enough of time but they should have been.”

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3990 Clairmont Road
Atlanta, GA
30341

Telephone

+14046923073

Website

http://healingmattersatl.com/

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