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Sonia Ahmad, C.C.C. | Licensed Psychotherapist

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Registered Psychotherapist (🇨🇦) specializing in trauma-informed care. We are many & we are 1.
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Client-counsellor confidentiality, baby 💅🏾🫡👑Therapists aren't police. A past crime with no future risk isn't a reporting trigger. (Rules vary by location.) Exceptions: Imminent risk of harm to self or others. Child abuse or neglect, which in many places must be reported even if the abuse happened in the past, if a child may still be at risk. Abuse of elders or vulnerable adults, where the law requires it, & Court orders or subpoenas.

#psychology #therapy #therapist #canada #healing taken in المعادي Maadi by @multiculturaltherapist

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These seats are reserved for the friends who never rest. I sit with people every week who can't remember the last time they did nothing without feeling guilty. A lot of us learned early that being useful is how you stay safe and keep your place. I don't see that as a flaw. It's something they were taught, usually by people who had no other choice. So consider this me saving you a seat. Nothing to fix today, nothing to prove. Tag who you're saving it for. 🤍
#rest #besties #healing #psychology #therapy taken in Dahab. South Sinai by @multiculturaltherapist

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There is a particular kind of humility that only mountains can teach. The Sinai range has watched empires rise and vanish, and it still looks today as it did when Moses walked here. Standing before it, I feel the scale of my own life shrink. Mv worries are brief. These peaks are not.

Kneeling in the sand to pray, I feel a thread running back through time, joining me to him and to everyone who ever stood in this silence and asked the same questions. Perhaps awe is simply what we feel when we remember that we are part of something far older, and far larger, than ourselves. The first time I saw Jabal Mousa last year I sobbed. Something in me felt blessed to behold the same mountain that our beloved Mousa spoke to the Divine on. These mountains, as high as they peak, somehow dissolve the gap between the lover and the beloved.

On the winds of Sinai drifts an ancient fragrance of yearning for the Divine, and the sand keeps the memory of all who have passed through it.. Sinai is a place where the veil between the unseen and seen worlds grows thin enough to touch. Oum e dunya (mother of the world) and we are all her children, still searching...

#Egypt #travel #Sinai #Moses #oneGod less

Chapter 95 of the Quran: Surah Tin
1. وَالتِّينِ وَالزَّيْتُونِ
By the fig and the olive,
2. وَطُورِ سِينِينَ
And [by] Mount Sinai,
3. وَهَٰذَا الْبَلَدِ الْأَمِينِ
And [by] this secure city (Makkah),
4. لَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ فِي أَحْسَنِ تَقْوِيمٍ
We have certainly created man in the best of stature;
5. ثُمَّ رَدَدْنَاهُ أَسْفَلَ سَافِلِينَ
Then We return him to the lowest of the low,
6. إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ فَلَهُمْ أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ
Except for those who believe and do righteous deeds, for they will have a reward uninterrupted.
7. فَمَا يُكَذِّبُكَ بَعْدُ بِالدِّينِ
So what yet causes you to deny the Recompense?
8. أَلَيْسَ اللَّهُ بِأَحْكَمِ الْحَاكِمِينَ
Is not Allah the most just of judges?

Anklets jingling all over Sinai 🔔

"Helwa?"
🙂‍↕️ "mmm." taken in Sinai Desert by @multiculturaltherapist

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Missing the ocean 🤍🐎 #horses #travel #egypt #sinai #horseriding taken in Dahab South Sinai - دهب جنوب سيناء by @multiculturaltherapist

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Me 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 buying a new handmade animal hide Daff every time I go to Khan el-Khalili (hair didn't survive the motorcycle ride lol). The first time I came to this bazaar I found a camel skin daff, have yet to come across another one of those, this one is 🐄 #framedrum #Daff #drum #soundhealing taken in Khan el-Khalili by @multiculturaltherapist

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Don't let the machines kill your creativity. Simple activities like taking something ordinary and seeing what else you can turn it into have been researched to improve creative fluency, flexibility, improve imagination and cognitive shifting skills. Cognitive shifting is when your brain is able to break through functional fixedness—the bias to see an object only for its usual purpose. Creative exercises also help train the neural pathways in the brain to pivot faster between rigid concepts and imaginative ideas, as well as overcoming mental blocks by forcing your brain past obvious first answers into original combinations. These activities also train divergent thinking, which is the mental process of generating many unique ideas or solutions from a single, simple starting point.

#ai #noaiart #creativity #art taken in المعادي Maadi by @multiculturaltherapist

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I have lived in the most random places on this earth. #therapy #canada #egypt taken in المعادي Maadi by @multiculturaltherapist

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If you've ever been to an Arab celebration, you've probably seen someone dancing with a string of beads looped around their fingers. That's a misbaha/Tasbih— traditionally used for prayer and counting dhikr (remembrance), similar to a rosary. Somewhere between devotion and celebration, the misbaha finds its place in everyday life. It's a perfect example of how culture blends things you wouldn't expect — faith, tradition, and celebration all wrapped into one small object passed hand to hand for generations. 📿

healing doesn't always look like therapy rooms and quiet reflections — sometimes it looks like a circle of kids, hands linked, feet stomping to rhythms passed down through generations.

#dance #SomaticHealing #palestine #therapy #healing taken in Cairo, Egypt by @multiculturaltherapist

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Took *energy healing* a lil too serious and ended up outside the pyramids 🫡😃 Jokes aside currently back in Canada attending to bizz (if you're wanting a therapy session now is the time to book in before the September rush), will be sharing more about the refugee work I did here in Cairo over the last few months, future projects, n other fun stuff in the next little while. Thank you for the continued support via @kashf.qalbi. love you all 🫂🇵🇸🇸🇩🇪🇬 #egypt
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#activism #groundwork #healing taken in Toronto, Canada by @multiculturaltherapist

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When you realize your therapist is also just a human living life for the first time (yes, I have a therapist too 😂)

#therapy #counselling #counsellor #psychology #therapist by @multiculturaltherapist

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While synthetic plastic drums are durable and consistent, they offer a static frequency. They sound good, but they replicate sound rather than channel it. Synthetic materials are predictable. They produce a linear, consistent vibration. They are great for reliability, but they lack "soul" because plastic doesn't possess organic memory.

Animal hide holds a living frequency. Because it was once alive, the tissue contains a natural cellular structure that absorbs and reflects sound waves in a way that synthetic materials cannot replicate. These vibrations feel inherently safe and grounding to the human nervous system. Animal hide carries an irregular, complex wave of frequencies. It resonates on a primal level, mimicking the natural, non-linear rhythms of the earth and the human heart. When you drum on animal hide, you are engaging with an organic, living resonance. Animal hide holds a deep, grounding frequency that vibrates not just in your ears, but directly in your heart. It is highly sensitive to its environment—changing with the humidity, temperature, and even the energy of the room. It breathes. Spiritually, drumming on hide is a practice of honor. It is a living instrument that responds to your touch, the weather, and your emotional state. And reflects sound waves in a way that feels inherently safe and grounding to the human nervous system.

Next time you hear a drum, close your eyes. Don't just listen to the sound—feel where the vibration lands in your body

#therapy #drum #energy #somatic #healing taken in Cairo, Egypt by @multiculturaltherapist

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Curious about #earseeding in #cairo? Send me a message! #pcos #auriculotherapy #tcm by @multiculturaltherapist

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