Sadiyah Bashir
Marriage & Family Therapy Intern | Adolescents, Young Adults, Adults, Couples & Families
Perinatal & Women’s Mental Health • Couples • Families • Trauma & Life Transitions
I’m a Marriage and Family Therapy intern pursuing my Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at Northwestern University. My background as a full-spectrum doula and childbirth educator has deepened my commitment to supporting individuals, couples, and families through experiences that can bring significant change, vulnerability, and growth.
I take a compassionate, collaborative approach to therapy and believe that understanding ourselves often means looking at both our individual experiences and the relationships around us. My work is influenced by Internal Family Systems (IFS), helping clients recognize the different parts of themselves, approach those parts with greater curiosity, and build a more compassionate relationship with who they are.
You Might Be a Good Fit If...
Pregnancy, postpartum changes, or another reproductive transition is affecting your emotional well-being
You’re navigating women’s mental health concerns or changes in identity
You and your partner want to strengthen communication or connection
Family relationships or recurring patterns have become difficult to navigate
Trauma or past experiences continue to influence how you feel or relate to others
You’re going through a significant life transition and feeling unsure about what comes next
You tend to be hard on yourself and want to develop greater self-compassion
You’re looking for therapy that considers both your individual experiences and your relationships
Specialties
My therapeutic approach may incorporate:
Internal Family Systems (IFS)-Informed Therapy
Couples & Family Therapy
Relational Therapy
Trauma-Informed Care
Perinatal Mental Health Support
Strengths-Based, Collaborative Therapy
The specific approach we use will depend on your individual needs, experiences, and goals.
You don’t have to have every part of your experience figured out before coming to therapy. My role is to create a space where you can slow things down, better understand what you’re carrying, and explore what you need with curiosity rather than judgment.
My work is influenced by Internal Family Systems, which recognizes that we all have different parts of ourselves that may carry different emotions, fears, responsibilities, or ways of coping. Rather than treating those parts as something that needs to be pushed away, we can work toward understanding them and developing greater compassion for yourself.
As a Marriage and Family Therapy intern, I also pay attention to the relationships and systems surrounding you. Whether we’re working individually, as a couple, or with a family, our work can explore both your internal experiences and the patterns influencing how you connect with the people who matter to you.
How I Can Help
Perinatal & Women’s Mental Health
Pregnancy, birth, postpartum life, and other reproductive experiences can bring emotional changes that are difficult to anticipate. Even joyful transitions can come with anxiety, grief, identity shifts, relationship stress, or feeling unlike yourself.
My experience as a full-spectrum doula and childbirth educator, along with training in Perinatal Mental Health through Postpartum Support International, informs the way I support clients through these experiences. Therapy can provide space to care for your emotional well-being while making sense of the changes happening around and within you.
Couples & Relationships
Relationships can bring support and connection while also revealing patterns around communication, expectations, intimacy, trust, and emotional needs.
I work collaboratively with couples to better understand the patterns shaping their relationship, strengthen communication, and create healthier ways of responding to one another. The goal isn’t to determine who is “right,” but to better understand what is happening between you and what you both need moving forward.
Families & Relational Patterns
Family relationships can shape the way we understand ourselves, communicate, handle conflict, and connect with others.
Whether you’re navigating parenting, family conflict, changing roles, or long-standing relational patterns, therapy can create space to understand what is happening within the family system and identify healthier ways of relating to one another.
Trauma & Life Transitions
Trauma and major transitions can affect how you understand yourself, your relationships, and your sense of safety. Experiences from the past may also continue to show up through emotional reactions or patterns that can be difficult to understand.
Together, we can explore those experiences at a pace that feels manageable while building greater self-understanding, compassion, and confidence in how you move forward.