About Hamida
Hamida Parkar welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She offers calm, clear support for stress, anxiety, trauma, grief and self‑esteem concerns. Sessions aim to help people feel more grounded, make sense of difficult feelings, and find manageable next steps.
Hamida is an AASW social worker with five years of direct therapeutic experience. She draws on somatic methods along with acceptance and commitment and attachment-informed approaches to help people reconnect with their bodies and values.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and human - she listens, reflects, and helps clients try small changes between sessions. Her background includes years working in crisis response, suicide prevention and counselling. That work taught her to recognise how sudden events and long-term stress shape behaviour and relationships.
She uses that experience to help people build safety and steady routines when life feels chaotic. Hamida speaks English, Hindi and Marathi. She works collaboratively, adapting tools to each person’s needs and pace.
Many people come for help with relationships, parenting stress, work pressure, addictive patterns, or problems rooted in earlier attachment wounds. Clients can expect a warm, respectful space where their story is heard without judgement. Hamida focuses on practical steps, body-based grounding, and clearer choices so people can move toward the life they want.
How somatic and values-based work helps online
Hamida uses somatic approaches to help people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body. Simple body‑based exercises and grounding techniques support calmer responses and make difficult feelings easier to name and manage.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to clarify values and create small, actionable steps toward a meaningful life. ACT helps when anxiety, avoidance or unhelpful habits block choices that matter. Attachment‑informed work explores early relationship patterns and how they affect current relationships and emotional reactions, which can be useful for intimacy, trust and family‑related concerns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. Hamida will discuss options and try different tools with each person, adjusting methods to fit goals, comfort and pace. The process focuses on practical changes and on building body awareness, emotional literacy and clearer decisions.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to provide flexibility for busy routines and different needs. These formats make it easier to work from home, fit sessions around work or caregiving, and use short check‑ins or longer conversations depending on what helps most.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Marathi