welcome to
calamansi counseling
culturally integrative therapy & liberatory care
hello, kumustaka, ahlan wa sahlan
I’m Heba! My multicultural Egyptian and Filipino roots inspired the founding of Calamansi Counseling, a liberatory healing space. I am a licensed therapist serving Maryland, the District of Columbia & select countries internationally.
for adult children of immigrant parents, multicultural / bipoc individuals and couples, queer & questioning individuals, and third culture kids.
mental health therapy
individual & couples counseling
I specialize in supporting clients heal from trauma while they also navigate the unique challenges of holding multiple cultural identities. Many of the people I work with experience anxiety or depression in response to the political and global climate, the weight of cultural expectations, family wounds & trauma—alongside the everyday stress of balancing career, relationships, and a sense of self.
where
In-person therapy in Ellicott City, MD. Online therapy in Washington DC, Maryland, & internationally*
rooted in
Liberatory care that promotes healing from systemic and institutional harm and is LGBTQ+ affirming
who
Centering the needs of multicultural/BIPOC adult individuals and couples
approach
Trauma-informed, somatic approaches that integrate cultural and ancestral wisdom as a pathway for healing
therapy helps us cultivate a deeper relationship with ourself and nurtures connection with those around us
liberatory healing
People I work with often come to me after painful experiences with white therapists who lacked cultural or sociopolitical consciousness. I provide culturally integrative care which promotes healing from systemic and institutional harm, drawing from somatic and trauma-informed approaches while integrating cultural and ancestral wisdom as a pathway for healing.
located in ellicott city, md
therapy for those who dare to disrupt the norm
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The hybrids, chameleons, rebels, and nonconformers who occupy space outside of the box, whose names are often mispronounced or who’ve ever been asked where are you *really* from?
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Those of us with hyphenated identities, othered for defying eurocentric / americacentric “norms”
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Those of us who are the children of immigrant parents and have had to figure out how to navigate the experience of having a foot in two, three, or more cultural worlds
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Those of us wounded by failing systems and oppressive institutions, and looking for spaces that center the intersection of social justice and anti-oppressive healing
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Those of us feeling chronically exhausted by the stress of racism, colonialism, and white fragility, while minimizing parts of who you are or code switching to experience safety or acceptance
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Those of us feeling the impact of assimilation, severed from our culture(s) of origin and ancestral lineages, desiring to experience reconnection
social justice
Calamansi Counseling is an Apartheid Free Zone (AFZ). AFZs are an expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people and are about creating spaces free of racism, oppression, and racial discrimination in Palestine and elsewhere ♡
therapy allows us to feel more secure in our identity and move into alignment with who we want to be
