welcome to culturally-informed, identity-affirming, human-first, holistic care.
AT NOOR, we provide trauma-informed, culturally-responsive care delivered with acceptance, respect, and genuineness to individuals, couples, and groups in California and New York.
our frame? we believe that it all starts with the relationship so we prioritize safety, lead with cultural curiosity, invite collaboration, and emphasize flexibility. We show up as full humans, leaving space for you to do the same without fear of judgment or having treatment happen to you. we aim to create spaces for anti-oppressive work that contribute to decolonizing therapy as a whole.
our method? there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all therapy. we provide customized support for who you are, what you need, and what works for you. our diverse team uses a range of modalities to support you in harnessing your deep and inherent capacity for healing. our flexibility allows us to meet you where you are and customize the experience to help you meet your goals in a way that honors your values, beliefs, and unique way of being.
whether
you are:
Struggling with anxiety and depression, for the first time or again
Grieving the end of a relationship, a season, or a person
Having the same fight with your partner, time and time again
Exploring your sexuality and what that might mean for your life
Unpacking your childhood and layers of intergenerational trauma
Feeling the impact of what is happening in the world
Finding yourself at a crossroads and feeling stuck
Struggling with body image and food
Wondering whether there is more to life than how you’re living
You are not broken. You don’t need fixing.
You are built for connection. You are in need of support.
we understand what you’re going through.
You have tried to do it all on your own. Maybe you have been taught that you should be able to handle these things on your own and that seeking support is weak or shameful. You’re holding it together, but barely.
You try and just keep moving forward. Maybe it’ll go away if you don’t pay too much attention to it. Maybe this is just a season and you’ll feel differently soon. That was the past, just focus on the future. No matter what, you find yourself in the same spot.
You compare yourself to others and feel like you often come up short. You feel like you’re behind in your life, fear that something is wrong with you, and wonder what you’re missing that others seem to have mastered.
Maybe you’ve developed a whole host of coping mechanisms to help you. You’ve learned to compartmentalize, intellectualize, deny, suppress, and dismiss. You busy yourself so you don’t have to feel, but these short term solutions don’t last.
Maybe you’re ready for something different, something that actually addresses the roots of what you’re experiencing.
You want to feel confident in your life.
You want to understand yourself better so that you’re not living from one confusing trigger to the next.
You want to feel like an integrated whole rather than just bits and pieces of a person.
You want to feel unstuck and able to move forward.
You want to take better care of yourself emotionally and to not be so afraid of feeling.
You want to be able to understand and meet your emotional needs and to communicate those needs to others.
You want to feel like you actually like yourself, maybe even love yourself.
You want to stop pursuing the next accomplishment as a way to prove your worth.
You want to learn how to communicate better and have stronger relationships.
You want to be more present in your life.
You want more peace, more ease, and more joy!
Seeking support is a sign of strength and movement toward feeling more empowered and fulfilled in your life.
That’s where we come in.
This is our calling and our life’s passion. Seeing people through the difficult moments in their life as they reconnect to, rediscover, and reclaim their inherent strengths is what we’re here for!
Learn more about how our amazing teams of healers can help.
More on the name ‘Noor’
May the light + pomegranate and everything that ‘Noor’ represents help you find your way.
Find your light, Live bright.
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noor means “light” in farsi/person, arabic, and other languages. while at noor we work with all the dark and difficult things, the more we do this work, the more we also believe in the truth, the potency, and the healing power of light. light refers to love, to the body and spirit’s natural capacity for healing, to resilience through softness, to connection and belonging. when we can sit with the dark winters of our psyches and our lives, we can savor the feeling of the warmth of the sun on our skin that much more.
in armenian, “noor” means pomegranate. beyond being pauline the founder’s favorite fruit, it is also a national symbol for fertility, life, and abundance. armenian lore holds that a perfectly mature pomegranate is 365 kernels, one for each day of the year. the idea of many parts within one whole speaks to us as diverse humans and therapists who acknowledge and honor that we are all made of different parts. recognizing and returning to our wholeness while honoring the many parts of the overall mosaic that makes each of us unique as well as universally human is what we love most about the transformation process.
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cut, prepared plates of food are a certain universal language and experience of love shared by children of immigrants. The image of an immigrant parent hunched over a bowl carefully preparing little kernels of pomegranates can feel like a familiar scene. Whether your parents literally did this or not matters less than what it symbolizes - the love that may have been present from our immigrant parents even if it wasn’t always in the form we wanted or needed. It reminds us that we can be both deeply loved and deeply hurt by the same people and calls on us to carefully prepare for ourselves, through the work of reparenting, what would be most nourishing for ourselves. That is the work many of us have done, are doing, and are supporting you in doing too.
