Hi! I'm Elaina
- MS in Human Service Counseling with a specialty in Crisis Response and Trauma Care
- Trained in EMDR
- PMH-C
- Over 12 Years of Cross-Cultural Experience
Hello, my name is Elaina (or Lena), and I’m an American expat living in Riyadh and also working in Jeddah. I’m here to be a trusted friend and support for you. Regardless of where you’re from, all women have parts of their stories they wish they could change or erase. Although I can’t change the past, I can help you process and find hope again after grief. One of my greatest joys is seeing women find hope and healing despite their circumstances. I’m here to hold out hope for you when your grief is heavy and your hope seems lost. I offer online and in-person sessions to help you process your best, and find hope and joy again.
Specialized and safe Arabic translators now available if you'd prefer sessions to be fully in arabic.
Healing and Hope with Lena
Your Healing Journey Begins
Welcome to Creative Healing with Elaina, a safe space and community dedicated to healing. Join sessions that are individual, or group, and/or attend unique retreats designed to help you navigate life's challenges with support.
Find Community and Support
As a trauma specialist and EMDR therapist, I offer in-person and online topic group sessions, providing a nurturing environment for personal growth and healing during difficult times.
Why Get Help Now?
Why focus on the difficult or hard things?
Why focus on the difficult or hard things?
To experience some of lifes greatest joys, you have to press into some of the difficult things in your life. We are whole people and we can't erase parts of our past. What we do have control over, is how we respond and how we choose to heal.
Emotional Trauma Care is helping normal people deal with abnormal hardships within their lives. Trauma Care is like the psychological EMT for counseling. I help people get back to a new normal using creative and personalized paths to healing and wholeness.
Sounds Intimidating and Scary...
You’re right! This concept of pursuing healing is somewhat of a newer concept in the Arab world, however when you’re doing it in a safe context… it’s a way to honor your story and care for your emotional well-being. Everything shared and processed is completely confidential. Each woman has a unique story, so I will come up with an individualized path of healing for her. I am not a counselor, I am a Trauma Specialist. Because of that, I help people over a shorter period (usually just a few sessions) to help them regulate their minds and bodies to process what may have happened to them. I help them create support systems and rhythms of health so that they can experience joy and hope once again.
Healing Services Offered
Explore individual, group sessions, and unique retreats for hope and healing during challenging life seasons.
What Others Are Saying...
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Jessica Smith
“The sessions I did with Elaina were beyond what I thought some counseling could do for me. She is unique in her ability to see you as a whole, hear and feel with you, while simultaneously quickly picking up on your gifts and strengths. I felt empowered to process my emotions, encouraged in my natural giftings and ready to continue onto the next season of my life with peace.”