Fazeela Mohammed, M.S., M.A.

Fazeela Mohammed is a master’s level clinician at Sasco River Center. She works with children and adolescents of all abilities and their families. She provides individual, group, couples and family therapy to address a wide range of psychiatric, substance use and dual-diagnosis treatment needs. 

She has extensive training in a full range of evidence based and research supported therapeutic interventions and modalities. These include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Play Therapy, Narrative Enhancement Cognitive Therapy, Child Parent Psychotherapy, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, and mindfulness. She takes an integrative and collaborative approach when working with clients to help them reach their therapeutic goals. The clinical frameworks she formulates from are the Developmental Individual Difference and Relational Model, Relational Cultural Therapy, and Client Centered Therapies such as Narrative Therapy. 

Additionally, Ms. Mohammed applies a humanistic, ecological and family systems lens to her conceptualizations of clients to fully understand their world and perspective. She sees the client as the expert and recognizes the self as a powerful force that can promote agency. The therapist’s role is to witness transformation through guidance, empowerment, and psychoeducation. The ultimate goal being to meet clients where they are through the practice of cultural humility. She honors the diversity of her clients’ cultural backgrounds, gender identities, relationship structures and sexuality. She has experience working with marginalized communities and active awareness of the privileges she holds is paramount to her work. 

Ms. Mohammed utilizes advanced competencies to promote whole person health and well-being as a team member, consultant, and through direct service to individuals and families across the lifespan. Ms. Mohammed will receive her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University New England (Psy.D.). Additionally, she holds an M.S. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University New England and an M.A. in General Psychology from CUNY City College of New York. She completed her pre-doctoral internship in Integrated Healthcare Psychology at Wheeler Clinic where interns functioned as behavioral health specialists within a fully integrated, multidisciplinary healthcare setting.