Rizna (she/they) is a queer Integrative Psychotherapist & Youth Worker. Their therapeutic approach is gentle, collaborative, rooted in cultural humility, grounded in a steady slowness that rests in curiousity, which aims to respect each person’s lived experience and ancestral history.

They have previously worked with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth within residential care in Djugun-Yawuru country and community-based mental health settings across the Kulin Nations.

Their work centres both the individual self, as well as the soul that belongs to a wider ecological weaving story that we are a part of in this human experience that we call life.

Rizna is a student of Sufism from an ancestral lineage in Islam and the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Dzogchen. They consider themselves as a soul-activist and grief tender. These traditions and practices deepen their commitment to presence, compassion, justice, truth, and advocacy for protecting the Earth.

Currently, they are developing their practice in Eco-psychology, Grief Ritual Leadership Facilitation, Integrative Attachment Therapy (IAT) and extending a deeper understanding of non-dual states through Islamic Mysticism.