Hello, Salam, & Welcome to my Practice

I am Setareh Azar Jinn (she/her). I’m a queer and trans Iranian American woman of color, a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT #104844), and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) in Sebastopol, California.

I am licensed and credentialed under my legal name, Nima Saalabi.

I offer depth-oriented, long-term somatic psychotherapy for adults in Sonoma County and across California.

Many of the people who find me are capable, thoughtful, and carrying more than others can see. They may be functioning at a high level while also living with trauma activation, burnout, masking, chronic bracing, dissociation, or shutdown.

My work is warm, precise, relational, and culturally grounded. I understand bodies as social bodies. Our nervous systems are shaped in relationship, and also by culture, migration, power, identity, and survival. I do not only look for injury. I also look for intelligence, adaptation, and wisdom carried in the body, including the wisdom in queer, trans, diasporic, and cultural ways of surviving, making meaning, and finding beauty.

What it’s like to work with me

My style is warm, direct, precise, collaborative, and body-based.

I work slowly and carefully. Together, we track sensation, emotion, impulse, boundaries, and meaning in real time. I want the work to be accurate and usable. I am not interested in forcing insight, forcing regulation, or overriding your system.

I work best with adults seeking weekly, long-term therapy at a regular appointment time. My practice is built around consistency. It is not a drop-in model, and it is not built around highly flexible scheduling.

Clients often come to me for support with

  • Autistic/AuDHD burnout, shutdown, sensory overwhelm, and masking/unmasking

  • Trauma, including developmental, relational, and medical trauma

  • Dissociation, anxiety, panic, and chronic bracing

  • Identity stress, including queer/trans experience, diaspora, and intergenerational strain

  • Poly/ENM and kink/BDSM-affirming therapy focused on attachment, communication, and repair

  • Social, cultural, diasporic, and familial pressure around duty, success, responsibility, and belonging

A note on approach

I am a queer and trans Iranian American therapist, and that matters in how I listen, how I track context, and how I understand survival.

I come from the Iranian diaspora. I know that healing does not happen outside culture, family, migration, history, or adaptation. I also know that naming context is not enough by itself. The work still has to be careful, structured, and clinically sound.

My approach is decolonial in the sense that I take seriously the ways bodies are shaped by ancestry, displacement, identity, and survival. At the same time, my work is not vague. It is steady, cumulative somatic therapy.

I am also deeply shaped by poetry, dance, and the natural world. They inform how I listen, how I pace, and how I work with the body’s own language.

I care about helping people build enough steadiness that life can feel more possible, and that the body does not have to keep carrying the full cost of survival alone.

Logistics

I offer in-person therapy in Sebastopol (Sonoma County) and teletherapy throughout California.

$200/session

Private pay

Credentialed only with Optum

Superbills available for possible out-of-network reimbursement

If you need in-network coverage other than Optum, or are looking for biweekly, drop-in, or highly flexible scheduling, I may not be a fit.