Jennifer Rizk Nawaz,MS, LMFT

What does therapy look like? It is traveling the journey to a compassionate understanding about yourself so you may begin to heal and change.

A pandemic can be a stressful event! Events like these can increase a sense of anxiety or depression. What can be done to keep the calm? There are tips and tricks to stay grounded such as meditating. A mental health provider can also help in these times! Fortunately, telehealth (virtual sessions from home) are available to help maintain social distancing! Now accepting Cigna and Blue-shield insurance. Call for a free phone consultation (909) 493-5009

An effective therapist knows to never try and give advice or get the client to look at the brighter things in time where pain and misfortune exist. But to be a holder of empathy and compassion. To meet them where they are and to say yes.... This is really hard and painful. I am with you in this. What I’ve encountered is that only in those moments does a person begin to heal and restore. They are able to develop hope and gratitude only after they are joined in the dark with someone to witness

Office open in Santa Clarita! Cigna insurance now accepted and more insurances to come! Live too far from Santa Clarita? Or want to save the drive or having to wait in the lobby? Now offering virtual therapy sessions from the comfort of your home!

New year! New practice office! Jennifer Nawaz, LMFT is now accepting patients in the Santa Clarita- Valencia Office! Please call (909) 493-5009 to schedule your appointment

How do abuse patterns get passed on from one generation to next? Often times with childhood abuse survivors the sense of love and trauma experiences get fused together and one associates love and trauma as one in the same. So as adults you go out into the world and seek relationship dynamics that feel familiar in nature to what you know and associate as love. If you didn’t have the best childhood growing up and you find yourself suffering in some way in your current friendships, relationships, then that is a clue into repeated relational patterns. You can only start to break the cycle when you are able to develop awareness around the familiar roles in relational patterns that originated from the past and are bleeding into the present.

Sure, we have opportunities to hold up a mirror for others from time to time but it’s how we do it that is most crucial. Are we taking this opportunity to point fingers and shame the other? Or are we approaching with compassion and understanding. Both approaches will have very different outcomes. To lead with compassion and understanding will pave the way for growth and healing in the other

Mental health awareness month

Enrollment start now for December’s workshop!

The easiest way to improve your relationship is to pay attention to your partner during life’s small, everyday moments. This video shows you how. Written and narrated by: Logan Ury

Be aware of people/family in your life who are ready and more than willing to connect when you are struggling but disappear/withdrawal or do/say something hurtful when you are happy and doing well. These dynamics are dangerous as they are harder to label as unhealthy as it may not be as apparent. There are two sides of the same coin in these relational dynamics. On one side the connection feels good because when you are in a bad place it is helpful, legitimate and feels good ...to have connection. But in the same token it is very damaging to have them withdraw or subtly hurt you in some capacity when things are going well. These people cannot stay connected to you when you are in a good place cause it evokes their own pain and shame. I encourage to seek the connections in your life that can celebrate you in happiness and support you in pain. If you continue to engage in relationships with this problematic dynamic, then it communicates to yourself on a subconscious level that you are only able to be valued and connected too in a depressed place which makes it harder for you to OWN your happiness - - leaving you attached to a place of suffering. All humans need connection so find people who connect with you in the bad and in the GOOD See more