Safia Albaiti, LMSW
Postgraduate Social Worker

Safia Albaiti is a licensed therapist who received her Master of Social Work at Smith College School for Social Work in 2023. She works with adolescents and adults across the lifespan, in individual and couples therapy. She primarily uses a relational psychodynamic framework, and works with clients to integrate somatic based interventions when necessary. She has worked with individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, substance use, and experiences of bipolar disorder, psychosis and persecution in families.

Safia brings in her training as a social worker to explore symptoms, interpersonal difficulties, role conflicts and stuckness as a product of the many social contracts and norms that shape how we were raised in society. She believes in attuning to the potential of the therapy space to work through what comes up in a safe contained way that can move towards self authorization. She is committed to foregrounding antiracism, feminism, and queer dignity as a liberating sense of being. She also believes in foregrounding working class dignity and the hidden injuries of class and class dislocation,  attending to what the early psychoanalysts would have understood as the structure of “die seelische” (the soul), be it religious or humanist. Poetry, as a close cousin of psychoanalysis, can be prescribed on occasion.