About Me
My name is Nadia Khansa, I am a licensed professional counselor in Washington D.C. I am a Lebanese and Guatemalan Muslim, and as a therapist living at the intersection of many different identities, I’ve always dreamed of a practice that would cater to clients of all backgrounds. I value every part of my clients identities, from race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, and beyond, there is a space for you in my office—and I’ve chosen to honor that space with the name of my practice. Muruna, or مرونة in Arabic, means “resilience.” While it isn’t a direct translation, for those with multiple identities, I think there is often a bargaining process as to what pieces belong in different settings.
One of my goals as a therapist is to help my clients define those boundaries for themselves. You get to decide what the relationships with different sides of yourself looks like, whether its identity, symptoms, or vulnerability, I hope to help all my clients with figuring out a way to confidently navigate this world.
It is my fundamental belief as a therapist is that you, the client, are not “the problem” in your life. The problem is the problem, and to help us discern what that is, and how to navigate it, I draw from systems theory, and psychodynamic approaches to help us understand both how you interact with the world, and how it has interacted with you.
The words we use to describe ourselves holds great significance in how we understand our realities
So much so that oral storytelling and history taking has been a predominant part of our ancestors legacies. There is power in having a space to share your stories, and I hope to be a witness and a guide along your legacy building.
