Building a life in a new country is its own kind of labor, one that rarely gets named as hard even though it is. I'm Samar Farange, a licensed therapist based in Seattle, and I offer online therapy to immigrants and first-generation adults across Washington state, in English or Farsi.
I work with people who left one place for another — recently or decades ago — and with people raising families here while still carrying ties, obligations, and grief connected to where they came from.
A lot of this work is about naming things that get treated as just logistics — loneliness, loss, the sheer cognitive load of doing everything in a second language or a second system — so they stop operating in the background and start getting real attention. You won't have to explain your culture from scratch before we can get to the actual work.
No — sessions are available in English or Farsi, and we can move between the two if that's more comfortable.
You won't have to over-explain the basics. I'll ask questions when I need to understand something specific to your situation, but you're not responsible for educating me on the broad strokes.
If this is familiar, the first 20-minute call is free, and there's no pressure to continue after it.
Book a free 20-minute consult