Uzma Ahmad, LPC, LMHC

Uzma Ahmad is a licensed counselor with 25 years of professional experience. She holds the credentials Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and is licensed to practice in both Oregon and Washington. Her background includes teaching psychology at the university level, bringing both clinical and academic perspectives to her work.

Her approach is strengths-based, emphasizing clients' existing resources and capacities as the foundation for growth. Uzma works with people experiencing stress and anxiety, grief, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, cultural and generational conflicts, and the impacts of trauma and abuse, including sexual abuse. She also addresses issues such as abandonment and attachment struggles, communication and control problems, guilt and shame, loneliness, questions of life purpose, narcissistic dynamics, post-traumatic stress, and self-love and women's issues.

Uzma aims to establish a collaborative working relationship in which thoughts and feelings can be expressed openly without judgment. She frames beginning therapy as an act of self-care and recognizes that taking that step often requires courage. Her role is to support and empower individuals as they work toward their goals and greater well-being.