Silk Road Healing
A gentle, chill and expansive place to land on your road to healing for collective liberation. In a Western/colonial world of pathologized and individualistic therapy and healing Silk Road Healing seeks to reject that and honour collectivist values and politicalized/revolutionary therapy and healing.
Mission
Silk Road Healing aims to provide a welcoming space that is culturally responsive and anti-oppressive. In the mental health space, it can be difficult to find a therapist which is non-pathologizing, especially for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ community members. Silk Road Healing is committed to being apart of the change. As your therapist/healer, I strive to create a pace that not only works on your trauma but celebrates your resilience/resistance. My commitment to you is to show up as my full human self, where we can have open conversations that are rooted in self-compassion and collective care. Conversations that consider oppression, power and privilege.
Why “Silk Road Healing”?
The silk road was a space that brought together many BIPOC/SWANA cultures and sharing of healing medicines. Silk Road Healing was inspired to embody that- a road that reclaims ways of healing that are culturally relevant and specific to your unique lived experience.
Reconnecting with the road
Healing and medicine in the form of storytelling and mind-body connection have been a part of many BIPOC/SWANA cultures for decades spanning across centuries. We will work together to support you in bringing you and your people’s stories and ways of being into the therapeutic space. Attending therapy, healing wounds you may not even know were there, and uncovering your inner strengths, is individual/collective reconnecting, reclaiming and resistance in itself. I hope you will allow me to support you as you navigate this journey.
About me
My name is Merwareed Mona Fakhry (she/her). I am an Afghan NeuroQueer therapist, somatic healer, intuitive, and dreamer! I live on Turtle Island and support BIPOC/SWANA/White allies who are seeking deep and meaningful journeying, and who are not only ready to heal themselves but their lineages and committed to birthing new liberatory worlds. I embody an approach to healing and living that is politicized and revolutionary.
Most times outside of human relationships I am probably connecting with more than human kin. As an exiled being my relationship with more than human kin (the land, water, sky, wind, rocks, soil, creators/animals) is the nearest to me. Connecting with more than human kin for me is in alignment with how many Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island and the global majority practice: in respect, reciprocity, and fighting for the land back to its original peoples (across all oppressed lands).
"The wound is where the light enters you" -Rumi
Silk Road Healing-Psychotherapy + Consulting 