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My name is Farhana Sobhan and my pronouns are she/her/সে. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 132987) and Expressive Arts therapist. My practice is supporting others in becoming more resilient and taking steps towards leading a life with more meaning and intentionality.

Our unique intersections of life have brought us experiences and challenges that made a lasting impact on how we navigate our systems and relationships. Becoming more aware of the patterns that enabled us to survive in the past can aid in providing more insight and clarity into ourselves to inform our future.

Together we will build capacity for unlearning old patterns and developing new capacities that support your growth process and change the narrative from surviving to thriving.

I offer sessions via telehealth and in-person in Occupied Ohlone land (Berkeley, CA). I pay Shuumi Land Tax as a non-indigenous person living and practicing on the Confederated Villages of Lisjan territory to support the critical work of the Sagorea Te’ Land Trust.

I was born and raised in Bangladesh and immigrated to the US as a teenager. My therapeutic work is influenced by my intersectional identities and experiences as an immigrant, Bangladeshi, Muslim, queer, femme, survivor and artist. I have a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Georgia, and M.A. in Counseling Psychology with a specialization in Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies.

My approach to therapy is systemic, emotional-decolonial, liberatory, embodied, psychodynamic, and relational. I am gentle yet firm about boundaries. When appropriate and with permission, I incorporate multi-modal somatic and expressive arts tools such as visual art, movement, and play to deepen the therapeutic process. My intuition, empathy, creativity, clinical thinking and ability to hold your unique experience are some of the qualities I bring in my therapeutic work. 

ABOUT ME

  • Individual Therapy

    Therapy for adults in person or via telehealth.

    I incorporate EMDR, Brainspotting, breathing and mindfulness techniques from Yoga (RYT200), and Expressive Arts tools along with psychodynamic theoretical frameworks.

    Inquire about doing adjunct EMDR therapy (time bound or session bound).

    Sessions are 50 minutes.

  • Expressive Arts Therapy

    Therapy for adults who want to explore their creativity through Expressive Arts.

    Sessions are 90-120 minutes for exploration and experimentation with creativity.

  • EXPRESSIVE ARTS GROUPS

    I design and facilitate Expressive Arts Groups to facilitate creativity and connection in group settings.

    Groups are specifically designed to meet your needs. They are multimodal arts processes that allow for creativity, embodiment, slowing down, and deepening of relationships.

    Workshops can be 2-8 hours.

  • Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)

    Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) for adults via telehealth.

    Treatment length is 12 weeks or longer (4 initial sessions of preparation followed by medicine and integration sessions, and closing).

    Medicine sessions are 3 hours, other sessions are 60 minutes.

I invite you to reach out and explore the possibility of working together. I offer a free 15 minute consultation.

CONTACT

“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

― Lilla Watson