“Aur” / Latin, noun: ‘ear’ or ‘gold’
“Home”/ English, verb: return to one’s origin
“Ohm” / Sanskrit, noun: absolute reality, God within, liberation
Hi, I’m Ahmed Tahseen, a psychiatrist and therapist.
When I’m asked where someone should go, who they should see for matters related to theirs or a loved one’s mental health, I direct them to places I personally know, people I trust. Those places and people are few. It’s unfortunate. I wish instead more people who name themselves therapists and psychiatrists (& other titles) could be assumed to meet a minimum, base level of helpfulness. But as things are, we are stuck with a whole ordeal of commonly ‘bad’ therapy and psychiatry. Here and now is not really the place to address it but you can find a bit more on what I would say about it here.
Here, my hope is to act against those tides by taking you and what you bring seriously. This work is as meaningful as anything to me—the world within us is no different than the world around us. It is a belief I hold in my bones, that we heal the world through and with each other. Little else is more special than the sharing in each other’s suffering—mental, psychological, neurobiological, physical, emotional, spiritual, relational. Whatever else we name it. These different ways of understanding our experience are inseparable, really. No one way describes it better than the other.
In my practice, you will be taken seriously. There is nothing too unimportant or too much to bring. It’s all welcome. We’ll work together to discover the map within you that takes you to where you want to be. I provide higher impact encounters that take place over longer sessions which ends up in an overall shorter duration of our time working together. Short encounters are in the service of insurance companies recouping their money, not us and what actually works.
I’m here to aid with whichever direction you end up taking. I do that by offering a full and thorough evaluation at a reduced rate upon our first meeting, whether we work together or not.
If we evaluate who you’re seeing, what you’re doing, whether you should continue to—that’s fine.
If we talk about what to look out for during your next steps that do not include me, that’s fine too.
If I am but a small stop on your greater journey, that fills my bucket enough.
