Hiba Khan , LCSW

Hiba Khan is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who centers trauma-informed, culturally aware care for clients from diverse backgrounds. As a trans, LGBTQIA+, and poly-affirming psychotherapist, she focuses on creating a nonjudgmental space where people can explore identity, relationships, and the effects of past experiences. Her practice emphasizes culturally competent support for BIPOC communities, with particular attention to Muslim, Asian, and Middle Eastern populations.

Hiba works with individuals facing substance use disorders, post-traumatic stress including complex PTSD, dissociative conditions such as DID, grief and loss, adjustment challenges, and crisis situations. She also addresses a broad range of concerns including depression, anxiety, anger, ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, domestic violence, and relationship complexities such as polyamory and non-monogamous arrangements.

Trained as a Clinical Trauma Professional, Hiba integrates evidence-based techniques into her practice. Her approach draws from mindfulness-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), exposure and response prevention (ERP), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), tailoring methods to each person’s needs. She offers therapy in English, Hindi, and Urdu and aims to help clients navigate identity, healing, and meaningful change through collaborative, strengths-focused work.

Evidence-Based Techniques for Online Care

Hiba incorporates mindfulness-based DBT and Internal Family Systems to guide online work in a way that emphasizes emotional regulation and inner relationship. Mindfulness-based DBT combines present-moment awareness with skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness - it is often helpful for overwhelming mood states, self-harm urges, and difficulties with emotional control. Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps people understand and communicate with the different parts of themselves, offering a gentle way to address internal conflict, trauma-related reactions, and identity concerns.

She also uses exposure and response prevention (ERP) when appropriate, a structured technique that gradually reduces avoidance related to obsessions and compulsions by carefully facing feared situations in a supported way. Choosing the right method is a collaborative process - Hiba works with each person to assess goals, preferences, and responses to different approaches, adjusting the plan as therapy progresses.

Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible and flexible. These options allow clients to attend sessions from home or another convenient location, fit therapy into busy schedules, and maintain continuity of care when in-person meetings are not practical.