Alandria Mustafa

About Me

My primary goal is to create a space where my clients can show up as their authentic selves and address the various challenges that are creating a sense of hardship in their lives. I seek to create a therapeutic space that is collaborative, non-judgmental, and compassion focused. Supporting and witnessing the courageous, emotionally vulnerable, and occasionally challenging, work my clients are willing to do in therapy brings me a great sense of fulfillment. My approach to therapy is trauma-informed, empowerment based and rooted in self-determination, with an attentiveness to the nuance of intersecting identities and how these identities impact one's experience in this world. I utilize an integrative approach that is based in EMDR, Somatic Psychology, Polyvagal Theory, and Feminist Theory. I pull tools and strategies from a variety of therapeutic modalities; however, I find myself particularly drawn to mind-body connection based approaches that highlight the nervous system, the impact of trauma on the body and our sense of attachment and development.