About Us
'Panah' is an Urdu word meaning refuge, haven or shelter. It evokes an image of the shade provided by a sprawling tree. We envision therapy as a 'panah', a safe space to find care and support. From this safety, we can examine ourselves and find ways to grow and cope with challenges from within and around us.
Values
While forming our collective, the therapists of Panah considered the common tenets in our approach to therapy. Though each therapist has their own preferred modalities, theoretical emphases and style, we share core values that inform our work.
Affirming every individual’s agency and capacity to give meaning and shape to their lives.
Humanism
Acknowledging the importance of an authentic, empathetic therapeutic relationship as a vehicle for change.
Relationality
Acknowledging the humanity of the therapist as an individual with their own beliefs and context.
Reflexivity
Working
collaboratively
Creating a collaboration between the client’s expertise of themselves and the therapist’s knowledge & perspective.
Openness to
Learning
Professionally as a practitioner, and with the client.
Inclusivity &
Social Justice
Creating safe spaces for people from diverse sociocultural and economic contexts and having sensitivity towards intersectional identities.