Persian poet and mystic (1185–1248)
“The wound is where the light enters.”
❌judgement.
✅respect, understanding and care.
Behind every relationship challenge lies a deeply human story.
What presents as communication issues, lack of intimacy, or conflict often masks fundamental human needs and desires that we all share—to be truly seen, deeply desired, and genuinely valued.
Instead of judging these behaviors or reducing them to clinical labels, I offer a third path: understanding them as expressions of unmet or unconscious longings.
I help you look beneath surface-level patterns to understand what's really happening in your relationship. Through this work, couples often discover not just solutions to their immediate challenges, but a richer, more meaningful connection with their inner selves and each other.
f*** TRIAL & ERROR.
I don't give you a laundry list of things to 'try,' hoping one randomly clicks. (You shouldn't pay anybody for that.) I get to the bottom of what's holding your potential as individuals and as a unit hostage, and what to do about it.
“Umar has a unique approach, which was nothing short of transformative."
freedom from labels.
Language and categories/labels can have a huge impact on a person’s self-perception: there’s a big difference, for instance, between being told that you are extremely ambitious and being told you are suffering from delusions of grandeur.
I don’t use any 'therapy speak,' and will often ban its use in our sessions altogether, encouraging you to articulate how you're feeling without any neat labels.