Khaleda Ebrahimi

She/Her

  • Vancouver Location
  • Online & In-Person
  • Individual and Couples
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  • Loss and grief
  • Guilt and Shame
  • Fear, anxiety, worry
  •  Hopelessness and suicidality
  •  Trauma and abuse in childhood and adulthood
  •  Witness of abuse and violence
  •  Sexualized and gender-based violence
  •  Understanding and working with triggers
  •  Recovering from narcissistic abuse
  •  Attachment and abandonment issues and healing the inner child
  •  Navigating life between cultures
  •  Emotional and psychological effects of immigration/displacement
  •  Life transitions – adapting to changes in roles, responsibilities, routines
  •  Becoming more self-aware and creating boundaries that serve you
  •  Practising self-compassion and self-love
  •  Accepting the unique needs of introverts
  •  Using nature to soothe the nerves and manage stress

Graduate Certificate in Complex Trauma – Justice Institute.
Stopping the Violence (STV) Counsellor – Certificate
Relational Life Therapy Level 1  (relationship counselling)
Child Sexual Abuse Intervention Certificate – Justice Institute
Resisting Vicarious Trauma – Vikki Reynolds
Mindfulness-Based Therapy 1- Jennifer Rodrigues
Land-Based Teachings and Indigenous Approaches to Healing – Darla Goodwin, Juanita Desjarlais, Sharon Jinkerson-Brass, Lillian Howard
Somatics in Complex Trauma – Yvonne Haist
Introduction to Art Therapy – Gretchen Ladd

Monday 3 pm – 9 pm
Tuesday 8 am – 2 pm

About Me

My Story

I am a cisgender, heterosexual, woman of colour, and an immigrant on unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations. I was born in Afghanistan, but my childhood was defined more by movement than by place. As conflict deepened in my homeland, my parents—driven by the dream of giving their five children a safer future—made the painful decision to leave everything behind. Our journey to safety began in Pakistan and later took us to India—years marked by uncertainty, constant adaptation, and the quiet resilience that comes from living in displacement. After a long wait and countless applications through refugee and immigration channels, we moved to Canada through family sponsorship. We started over in North York, Ontario, holding on to the prospect of stability at last. In the early 1990s, we moved again—this time to British Columbia—where we planted new roots and began to rebuild our lives. These formative experiences have profoundly shaped my identity, instilling in me a deep appreciation for resilience, the strength of community, and the enduring hope for new beginnings. My lived experiences have deeply shaped my worldview, anchoring me in anti-war, anti-colonial, and anti-racist activism. I hold fast to the conviction that no person is illegal, and I reject the colonial, white-supremacist, capitalist, and patriarchal systems that drive global crises through war, occupation, and exploitation of land and resources.

My background is in support work and counselling for survivors of sexual assault. For 20 years, I worked at a rape crisis centre in Vancouver, offering frontline support to individuals impacted by sexualized violence, abuse, relational and intimate partner violence. This work has been the foundation of my deep commitment to justice, healing, and trauma-informed care. I’m a proud mother to two remarkable teenage daughters who are the light and centre of my world. Alongside my five inspiring nieces, they motivate me every single day to show up with
kindness, compassion, and courage—to grow, to lead, and to serve with intention. I hope to help create a world where anyone reaching out for support is met with safety, dignity, and genuine care.

Therapeutic Approach

My approach is integrative—because no single method works for everyone. I work collaboratively with you to explore and build a plan that supports the goals you want to achieve. At the heart of my work is creating a safe, supportive space where you feel empowered to deepen your self-awareness, recognise your resilience, and reconnect with yourself. I take an intersectional approach, recognising that race, gender, ethnicity, class, and other aspects of identity do not exist in isolation, but interact in complex ways to shape each person’s experiences, opportunities, and challenges.

Some of the approaches I lean on include:
Person-centred therapy – you are at the centre of all the decisions, tools, and conversations we engage in.
Existential therapy – rooted in the principles of freedom, choice, and self-determination- explores the deeper questions and inherent uncertainties and challenges in life, fostering authenticity and alignment with our values. Together, we tailor the process to you—your needs, your pace, your story. I value and acknowledge the impact of our experiences—how they shape the way we navigate life, relationships, and our sense of self. Within this context, our behaviours and habits make sense, even if they may no longer serve us. As we bring unconscious patterns into awareness, we
can begin to heal the harm we've experienced and build a new relationship with ourselves and the world around us.

My approach is culturally sensitive and rooted in an intersectional, feminist, anti-colonial, and anti-oppressive framework. I honour your wisdom and trust your deep knowing of what works best for you. I practice humility through openness and curiosity, meeting you with respect and a willingness to learn from your lived experiences. Another way I practice humility is by honouring ancestral wisdom and working with nature’s medicines to nurture growth, healing, and connection. Modern science increasingly affirms what many cultures have known for millennia: the elements—earth, trees, plants, air, fire, and water—carry profound powers to restore balance. These forces of nature can calm the mind, renew the body, and uplift the spirit, easing challenges like anxiety, depression, and sleeplessness, and reminding us that we are inseparably woven into the fabric of the natural world. For thousands of years, these practices have flourished—rooted in the rich traditions of diverse cultures and carried forward under many names and forms. Today, this is called Ecotherapy, a practice I weave into my work with deep reverence and gratitude for the grandmothers, elders, and knowledge keepers who have carried these teachings through generations. They remind us that connection—to the land, to each other, and to ourselves—is the nurturing ground from which healing grows.