Sultana Karim

Sultana is the Owner & Licensed Therapist at Karim Counseling Services, PLLC. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Maryland, Virginia, DC, and Michigan, a Certified EMDR Therapist, IFS Level 1 Practitioner, a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) and a Certified Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C). She has over 12 years of clinical experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in various settings, including outpatient mental health, child advocacy centers, domestic violence shelters, family services, hospital, and adoption agency. She specializes in treating sexual and domestic violence, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, NICU, pregnancy and infant loss, birth trauma, and childhood/attachment trauma in her private practice. She co-facilitates monthly healing circles for moms with Villa Advocacy Group. She is one of the founding members of the Virginia Maternal Quality Care Alliance. She is a member of the Perinatal Mental Health Coalition of Virginia and the PUSH Coalition. In these organizations, she strives to advocate and educate the community on maternal/perinatal mental health, maternal mortality, community-based collaboration and solutions, trauma-informed care, cultural humility, and implicit bias. She is an Approved Clinical Supervisor in Maryland and Virginia for those working towards their LPC. She has presented on the topics of racial and ethnic disparities in perinatal mental health, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), infertility, mindful parenting, self-regulation, healing your parts with the use of internal family systems, minority mental health, cultural humility, impact of domestic violence on children, child sexual abuse, play therapy, perception on seeking counseling, bullying and cyberbullying on mental health, and perception of race and gender.