Rana Yaghmaian (She/her)

My Approach to Helping

My approach is relational, warm, and grounded in deep respect for your inner world. I’m not here to “fix” you or analyze from a distance. I show up as a real person and aim to meet you with curiosity, honesty, and care. I believe therapy works best when it feels like a genuine relationship, built on trust, presence, and mutual commitment. I draw from attachment theory, parts work, existential frameworks, and trauma-informed, anti-oppressive frameworks. I pay attention to both your personal story and the systems you’ve moved through, including your family, culture, identity, and systems of power. I believe that healing doesn’t happen in isolation; it happens in relationship, and in the slow and tender work of feeling more connected to yourself. We’ll move at your pace, listen closely, and make meaning of what’s been hard to hold on your own.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I’m an Iranian Japanese American woman and child of immigrants, shaped by migration, mixedness, and a lifelong practice of navigating in-between spaces. I came to this work early, not as someone already deeply self-aware, but as someone longing to understand myself better. Over the last 2 decades, through my work as a professor of counseling at a local university, clinical practice, and my own long-term therapy, I’ve grown into a deeper, more honest relationship with myself. That, more than anything, has inspired me to support others in doing the same. My work is guided by a commitment to collective healing, disability, racial, and queer justice, and the belief that personal growth is inseparable from the systems we move through. I’m here for the big questions and the parts you’ve learned to hide. All of you is welcome here. I aim to be the kind of therapist I needed; someone who is deeply patient and stays with you as you find your way.