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Khalil aims to create an inclusive and safe space as a student clinician through an empathic approach accentuating the therapeutic alliance and fostering a collaborative relationship between client and practitioner, dissociating from a hierarchical standpoint. He aims to do this by applying a multicultural lens and acknowledging the intersecting identities of clients and how these create unique problems. Through his practice, he hopes to centralize the existing strengths of his clients and empower their self-efficacy to recognize the sources of their demoralization in life and how to process unrecognized trauma.

Khalil is an African-American, inner-city BIPOC man, and a fervent community mental health advocate fixated on developing higher accessibility of psychoeducation and emotional literacy amongst inner-city communities. He is profoundly driven towards developing dialogue with inner-city BIPOC boys and men from communities in which vulnerability has been historically stigmatized and seeks to assist in articulating emotions and fostering a sense of oneness amongst BIPOC men in their mental struggles. Khalil aims to take the competencies and clinical skills from his formal education to develop as a clinician and facilitate critical discussion around the social determinants of BIPOC mental health.

Khalil is currently studying towards his MA in Mental Health Counseling from the City College of New York and received his BA in Psychology from the same institution in 2022. He seeks to implement psychodynamic, Adlerian, and person-centered approaches into his practice in hopes of developing a mutual interpretation with his clients as they develop the fluency to intellectualize their problems and use actionable insight to reorient themselves into healthier lifestyles. He's served as a workshop facilitator through a community organization known as Gente Healing and firmly believes that community-based interventions are some effective forms of public wellness.