Nichole Abdallah AMFT
Santa Barbara, California Telehealth
“As a third-culture, mixed-race woman in diaspora, I understand the challenges of navigating multiple identities, cultural expectations, and the grief that can come with displacement.”
Nichole Abdallah is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and Palestinian-Latina practitioner specializing in intergenerational trauma, diasporic grief, mixed-race identity, and cultural reclamation for adult children of immigrants and BIPOC communities.
SpecialtiesAgoraphobia Anger Management Anxiety Attachment Issues Attention Deficit (ADHD) Body Image Burnout Caregiver Issues or Stress Child or Adolescent Chronic Illness & Pain Codependency Communication Problems Compulsive Shopping / Spending Coping Mechanisms Couples / Marriage / Relationships Creative Blocks Depression Divorce Ecological Grief Family Conflict Grief & Loss Highly Sensitive Persons Identity Issues Life Transitions Migrant / Immigrant / Refugee Concerns Mood Disorders Multicultural Concerns Obsessions and Compulsions Parenting Perfectionism Perinatal & Postpartum Mental Health Phobias Premarital Counseling Racial Stress & Trauma Racial/Cultural Identity Relationship & Interpersonal Issues Self Esteem Stress Trauma Trauma and PTSD Women's Issues
ApproachesBrainspotting Couple and Family Systems Therapy Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Existential Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) Family/Marital Therapy Internal Family Systems (IFS) Marital Couple/ Family Communication Therapy Multicultural Theory Narrative Person-Centered/Rogerian Psychodynamic Relational Therapy Somatic Trauma Focused Therapy