Sabeen Shaiq, LCSW, has worked in the mental health field since 2005 and became licensed in 2012. She has been providing teletherapy and clinical supervision since 2014.
Her clinical and humanitarian work spans both domestic and international settings. Internationally, she has worked with Doctors Without Borders and Islamic Relief. Within the United States, she has served as a clinical supervisor and program manager at nonprofit organizations supporting foster youth and underserved communities.
Sabeen’s therapeutic approach is grounded in relational psychodynamic and somatic frameworks. She has trained extensively with Generative Somatics and completed postgraduate training through the Women’s Therapy Center in Berkeley. Her work also integrates an understanding of systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma, identity, and culture, with a strong commitment to decolonizing traditional therapeutic frameworks. In 2025 she co-founded and launched a new project that has been years in the making: Inclusive Muslim Mental Health Alliance (IMMHA).
She is especially passionate about working with people of color, immigrants, women, and youth. As a Muslim and the child of immigrants, she brings both personal and professional insight into conversations surrounding spirituality, religiosity, belonging, migration, and cultural identity.
Raised in the Bay Area, Sabeen transitioned in 2018 to building a fully remote private practice that allows her to live and work across different parts of the world. She has traveled solo to 46 countries and lived in three, experiences that have deeply shaped her worldview, healing journey, and sense of connection to global community.
Outside of her clinical work, one of her greatest joys has been being an aunt to her beloved nibblings. More recently, she stepped into another deeply meaningful role: becoming a mother to two sweet and joyful little ones.
Areas of focus include: working with humanitarian workers, travelers, nomads, third culture kids, teenagers and adolescents, depression, anxiety, domestic violence, trauma, identity exploration and intergenerational conflicts.
Training and education include:
Masters of Social Work
California State University, Long Beach
2005-2007
Post Graduate Relational Psychotherapy Training Program
Women’s Therapy Center, Berkeley, CA
2010-2012
Somatic Training
generative somatics, Oakland, CA
2011-2016
Healing for Gaza
2025-present
Her clinical and humanitarian work spans both domestic and international settings. Internationally, she has worked with Doctors Without Borders and Islamic Relief. Within the United States, she has served as a clinical supervisor and program manager at nonprofit organizations supporting foster youth and underserved communities.
Sabeen’s therapeutic approach is grounded in relational psychodynamic and somatic frameworks. She has trained extensively with Generative Somatics and completed postgraduate training through the Women’s Therapy Center in Berkeley. Her work also integrates an understanding of systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma, identity, and culture, with a strong commitment to decolonizing traditional therapeutic frameworks. In 2025 she co-founded and launched a new project that has been years in the making: Inclusive Muslim Mental Health Alliance (IMMHA).
She is especially passionate about working with people of color, immigrants, women, and youth. As a Muslim and the child of immigrants, she brings both personal and professional insight into conversations surrounding spirituality, religiosity, belonging, migration, and cultural identity.
Raised in the Bay Area, Sabeen transitioned in 2018 to building a fully remote private practice that allows her to live and work across different parts of the world. She has traveled solo to 46 countries and lived in three, experiences that have deeply shaped her worldview, healing journey, and sense of connection to global community.
Outside of her clinical work, one of her greatest joys has been being an aunt to her beloved nibblings. More recently, she stepped into another deeply meaningful role: becoming a mother to two sweet and joyful little ones.
Areas of focus include: working with humanitarian workers, travelers, nomads, third culture kids, teenagers and adolescents, depression, anxiety, domestic violence, trauma, identity exploration and intergenerational conflicts.
Training and education include:
Masters of Social Work
California State University, Long Beach
2005-2007
Post Graduate Relational Psychotherapy Training Program
Women’s Therapy Center, Berkeley, CA
2010-2012
Somatic Training
generative somatics, Oakland, CA
2011-2016
Healing for Gaza
2025-present