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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