Rakshanda Khan is a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) and Registered Art Therapist (RCAT) with an interest in Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Humanistic Integrative Counselling. She practices from a client-centred, trauma-informed, strengths-based, anti-racist, neurodiversity affirming and anti-oppressive framework, maintaining a critical self-consciousness that considers sociopolitical and biopsychosocial contexts to individual concerns.

As a cisgender South Asian immigrant to Canada, Rakshanda has been privileged to work with individuals of all genders and orientations, and from diverse backgrounds. She has over 8+ years experience working with children, youth and families. As a parent of a neurodivergent child, she has both lived experience and training in helping children, teens, adults, and families find strength, strategies, and resilience.

Rakshanda has experience and interest in areas including sexual, physical and emotional trauma, anger issues, depression, anxiety, parenting support, chronic illness or pain, self-harm, burnout, codependency, relationship issues, grief and loss, racial/cultural identity, self-esteem, social anxiety, interpersonal trauma, childhood trauma, intergenerational trauma, body image, divorce, life transitions, learning, developmental or intellectual disabilities.
 

Rakshanda practices ongoing therapist self-reflection and reflexivity, cultural humility, a client-centered approach that is contextual, and advocacy for systemic change.

In her spare time, Rakshanda enjoys swimming, long walks in nature, reading, drawing comics and other forms of artmaking. She is also slowly building a Fluevog collection.