Shimul Hyder, MA, AMFT

You may be feeling overwhelmed at the beginning of your therapy journey. You are unsure if therapy is really going to help you move out of this challenging place that can often feel so hopeless, and it can feel like there is no light at the end of this long tunnel. 

I provide a holistic and individualistic approach throughout the therapeutic process to accommodate each client’s unique experience, needs, and goals for therapy. I enjoy connecting with people from all backgrounds, diversities, and intersections and possess a genuine enthusiasm and curiosity about others and their lived experiences.

Creating a warm, safe, and non-judgmental space where my client can feel truly heard is at the heart of my work.

I am a Registered Associate Psychotherapist and an Antioch University graduate with a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology. I deliver humanistic, existential, and client-centered therapy through a trauma-informed, psychodynamic, integrative, and cultural lens. Over the past five years, I have worked in community mental health, private practice, dual-diagnosis residential treatment, and domestic violence crisis spaces, assessing clients with depression, anxiety, mid-life transitions, and trauma experiences. I have also worked with adolescents, teens, young adults, and marginalized populations, including BIPOC women, immigrants, and transnationals. I celebrate, honor, and affirm the LGBTQIA+ community and also work with transgender clients.  I have volunteered at a suicide prevention crisis site and continue to volunteer at a domestic violence hotline providing crisis intervention for clients in distress.