Therapy with Efaf Ghayem, LMFT

Your goals. Your way. I’ve got your back.

A woman with long black hair, wearing a white button-up shirt, smiling and touching her face with her right hand against a plain white background.
A woman with long dark hair and a white collared shirt, smiling and resting her chin on her hand against a plain background.

I’ve always been someone who notices the little things. The feeling in a room. The pause before someone answers. The way a person says “I’m fine” when something inside them feels anything but fine. The quiet moments that often say more than words do.

Maybe that’s part of what led me here.

I’m a therapist, but I’m also a person who has had my own seasons of uncertainty, change, starting over, figuring things out, and learning how to come back to myself. I know what it feels like to carry a lot while still trying to show up for everyday life. I know that sometimes you can understand something intellectually and still have a hard time feeling it in your body or knowing what to do with it.

Over time, I’ve become especially interested in that space between knowing and feeling, the part of us that wants to understand why we respond the way we do, why certain things feel so difficult, and what it might look like to meet ourselves with a little more compassion.

Outside of therapy, I’m drawn to the simple things that help me feel grounded: a good cup of coffee or matcha, being outside, long walks, yoga, meditation, reading, meaningful conversations, and those little pockets of slowness that make life feel a little more like life.

I don’t believe we have to have everything figured out before we deserve support.

And I don’t believe therapy has to be about fixing what is “wrong” with you.

Sometimes it’s about slowing down enough to hear yourself again. Sometimes it’s about understanding the parts of you that have been working very hard to keep you safe. Sometimes it’s about learning to trust yourself, setting boundaries, making space for your emotions, or simply having somewhere you don’t have to hold everything together.

That is the kind of space I hope to create.

A space where you can come as you are, not as the version of yourself you think you should be.

And maybe, little by little, learn how to feel more at home within yourself.

A little about me