services - couples therapy
couples therapy
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to healing. Our clinicians use diverse, flexible modalities tailored to your unique needs—ensuring therapy happens with you, not to you.
Our modalities include (and maybe we put these in columns with bullet points so it's easier to digest)
EMDR, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Multicultural and Feminist Psychology, Psychodynamic Theory, DBT, ACT, Narrative Therapy, and more
Healing Through Relationships
As social beings, we need each other. Relationships shape us—sometimes in ways that bring deep connection, and other times in ways that leave us feeling hurt or misunderstood. Healing can happen in relationships, too.
For intercultural and interfaith couples, external pressures and expectations can add layers of complexity. Non-traditional and LGBT+ partnerships aren’t always met with the support and understanding they deserve.
At noor, we see you, and we’re here to help you navigate your relationships with more ease, connection, and meaning.
Tailored Support for Every Relationship
No two relationships are the same, which is why we don’t take a one-size-fits-all approach. We integrate diverse modalities—including attachment theory, systems theory, communication skill-building, and deeper emotional work—to support the specific needs of you and your partner(s).
At Noor, we affirm all genders, sexual orientations, and relational structures.
Areas of Specialization
Intercultural & Interfaith Couples
Sex Therapy & Intimacy
Parenting & Family Dynamics
Infidelity & Trust Repair
Premarital Counseling
High-Conflict Relationships
You deserve a relationship that strengthens your well-being. Let’s work together to make that a reality.
meet the team:
Pauline Yeghnazar Peck
licensed clinical psychologist
Helping educate, empower, and encourage the children of immigrants to live full, free, meaningful lives.
Seher Bajwa
registered associate marriage and family therapist, Registered associate Professional Clinical Counselor
I support 1st gen women cultivate a sense of belonging and multicultural couples enhance their connections.
Nichole Abdallah
registered associate marriage and family therapist
I help adult children of immigrants reclaim their cultural identities and feel liberated.
Jean Donabedian
registered associate marriage and family therapist, Registered associate Professional Clinical Counselor
I help the adult children of immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community find the balance between culture and self.
Marjan Modaresi
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
I help adult children of immigrants navigate their identities and find balance in their lives.
More on the name ‘Noor’
May the light + pomegranate and everything that ‘Noor’ represents help you find your way.
Find your light, Live bright.
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noor means “light” in farsi/person, arabic, and other languages. while at noor we work with all the dark and difficult things, the more we do this work, the more we also believe in the truth, the potency, and the healing power of light. light refers to love, to the body and spirit’s natural capacity for healing, to resilience through softness, to connection and belonging. when we can sit with the dark winters of our psyches and our lives, we can savor the feeling of the warmth of the sun on our skin that much more.
in armenian, “noor” means pomegranate. beyond being pauline the founder’s favorite fruit, it is also a national symbol for fertility, life, and abundance. armenian lore holds that a perfectly mature pomegranate is 365 kernels, one for each day of the year. the idea of many parts within one whole speaks to us as diverse humans and therapists who acknowledge and honor that we are all made of different parts. recognizing and returning to our wholeness while honoring the many parts of the overall mosaic that makes each of us unique as well as universally human is what we love most about the transformation process.
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cut, prepared plates of food are a certain universal language and experience of love shared by children of immigrants. The image of an immigrant parent hunched over a bowl carefully preparing little kernels of pomegranates can feel like a familiar scene. Whether your parents literally did this or not matters less than what it symbolizes - the love that may have been present from our immigrant parents even if it wasn’t always in the form we wanted or needed. It reminds us that we can be both deeply loved and deeply hurt by the same people and calls on us to carefully prepare for ourselves, through the work of reparenting, what would be most nourishing for ourselves. That is the work many of us have done, are doing, and are supporting you in doing too.