Nihad Fares

Nihad Fares earned her Bachelor of Arts from the American University in Cairo in 2003 and her Master of Arts in Counseling with a specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy from Liberty University in Virginia, USA in 2017. Nihad welcomes individuals, couples, and families including adolescents.

Operating from a family systems perspective, Nihad believes in the indispensable value of healthy, supportive relationships for optimal individual, couple, and family functioning. She is passionate about working with people who make the brave choice of bettering themselves and their relationships. Nihad believes in equipping individuals and families to help themselves by emphasizing self-awareness, encouraging openness in communication, restoring trust to self and others, and setting boundaries.

Nihad’s therapy approach includes cognitive behavioral therapy, person-centered, solution focused, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and narrative therapy. She believes that her job as a therapist is to meet each individual where they are in order to get them to where they want to be. She collaborates with her clients to customize each therapeutic journey to meet presented needs and struggles.

Nihad works with individuals, couples and families struggling and affected by mood disorders, depression, anxiety and trauma. She works with couples on a variety of relationship problems including communication issues, emotional distance, intimacy issues, affairs and infidelity, separation and significant life events.