Humma Arshad, LAMFT

Services Starting at $100
Accepting UHC, Aetna, and BCBS

Humma is a trauma-informed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Mesa, AZ, specializing in narrative therapy for trauma and solution-focused trauma recovery. Her primary clinical modalities, Narrative Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy, reflect a belief in the client’s agency, resilience, and ability to re-author their story through meaning-making, intentional action, and strength-based reframing. With advanced specialization in trauma, she has provided direct care in both state-run and private Partial Hospitalization Program facilities, working intensively with adolescents experiencing PTSD, substance use, suicidal ideation, anxiety, and self-harm.

She has also facilitated trauma-informed group therapy for court-mandated individuals, bringing a balanced, direct, and relational approach to clients navigating legal systems, mental health stigma, and cycles of disruption. Her practice includes dual diagnosis adolescent treatment, with CBT/DBT-informed interventions. As a group therapy facilitator for youth, she empowers teens with language, tools, and structure to rebuild their identities and self-concept in safe, co-regulated environments.

In couples work, Humma integrates her lived experience—15 years of marriage and training in Islamic and secular relationship models—with Gestalt and Solution-Focused Therapy clinical tools. Her goal is to help couples navigate emotional blocks, intergenerational conflict, ruptures of trust, and intimacy disruptions with clarity and mutual care. She also offers faith-based marriage counseling, Islamic therapy for families, and therapeutic support for interfaith couples, always centering spiritual values and shared meaning.

Humma’s work is deeply informed by her dual academic backgrounds in clinical mental health and Islamic studies. She holds a second Master’s degree in Islamic theology, philosophy, and spiritual leadership, which enriches her understanding of religious and existential identity. She offers spiritual counseling for the happily faithful and support for faith-based identity distress, religious trauma, and faith crises. She is a Muslim trauma therapist and therapist integrating philosophy and spirituality, but she proudly works with clients from all religious and non-religious worldviews.

She is culturally competent in working with clients from Muslim, Christian (Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or Latter-day Saints, and Orthodox), Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, and interfaith backgrounds, as well as with agnostic, atheist, and spiritual-but-not-religious clients.  As a faith-based therapist near you and a therapist familiar with Islamic values, she holds deep respect for her clients’ personal worldviews. Many of her clients are exploring questions of meaning, belief, and belonging, while some need validation in their belief system, and she offers a clinically anchored, judgment-free space to explore those themes with nuance and care.

Culturally responsive and multilingual, Humma is a Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi speaking therapist, serving a diverse clientele including Muslim couples, families, South Asian American families, first-generation adolescents, and immigrant parents. She works with clients navigating spiritual abuse, religious disillusionment, and cultural disconnection—blending culturally humble therapy with deep clinical attunement. She is especially passionate about supporting Muslim women, Muslim Men, South Asian teens, and families with high-conflict and court-involved adolescents.

As a grief counselor, she helps individuals explore loss in its many forms—death, identity, spiritual rupture, and relational abandonment—guiding them through transformation, integration, and resilience. Known for her systems-disrupting lens and transformational leadership in mental health, Humma merges Western clinical practices with Islamic ethics, faith-informed philosophy, and justice-centered values.

Outside of therapy, Humma is a voracious reader, often completing 3–6 books every few months on topics ranging from psychology to theology to non-fiction. She enjoys shopping, deeply values rest (especially naps), and enjoys gaming—unwinding with her PS5, Nintendo Switch, and mobile games. Most of all, she treasures time with her two children and family, especially on days when they can venture out and enjoy the world together.