Garima Narwani

I'm a trained and certified Counselling Psychologist based in Netherlands. I am South Asian and have lived a life of an expat pretty much all my life. I have lived in UAE, India, South Korea and now have moved to the Netherlands. I strongly relate to the quote by Ijeoma Umebinyuo - "...too foreign for home too foreign for here. Never enough for both". I understand what it is like to uproot your life and move somewhere longing to belong to a place.

As a person of color (POC), my travels and expatriation has exposed me to intersectional differences that I can no longer unsee. I therefore, offer counseling support integrating socio-cultural and intersectional nuances of my clients to help them cope with life changes and difficulties. I have experience working with diverse client populations in individual and group settings, who struggle with - anxiety, adjustments as an expat, interpersonal stressors, life transitions, intergenerational stressors, and unhelpful negative thought cycles.

I also offer grief counseling for people who have suffered loss of their loved ones and struggling with life without them. Personally, having lost my mother in 2020, I came face to face with my own grief and what life has looked like coexisting with my grief. I try to bring, into grief sessions, an open understanding of how grief is a lifelong journey and not just an isolated event that we are all so conditioned to believe. I help grievers understand their grief and how best to honor it.

I use an eclectic and a tailor-made approach using therapies, including but not limited to, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), and Narrative therapy. I am currently only offering video counseling sessions via Google Meet.

Therapy with me means building a therapeutic relationship designed to empower you and help you achieve your emotional needs. I look forward to meeting you!