Salayeh’s journey was not built only through qualifications or professional training — it was forged through lived experience, survival, healing, and more than 25 years of deep personal development and transformational work.

Having navigated multiple traumas, her personal journey led her to become a Clinical Trauma Therapist, Creative Arts, Somatic and Expressive Therapist, Couples Counsellor, Relationship and Intimacy Therapist, Individual and Couples Sex-Therapy-Informed Practitioner, Social Worker, Counsellor, Executive Coach, and Experiential Therapist.

Her work supports individuals and couples navigating **relationship conflict, communication breakdowns, infidelity, affairs, betrayal trauma, trust repair, emotional disconnection, sexual difficulties, loss of intimacy, attachment wounds, separation, divorce, and relationship rebuilding**. She helps couples understand the deeper emotional, psychological, sexual, and nervous system patterns that influence how they love, communicate, desire, protect themselves, and connect with one another.

Salayeh's therapeutic approach recognises that relationship difficulties rarely exist in isolation. Unresolved trauma, shame, childhood experiences, emotional inheritance, attachment insecurities, protective behaviours, and unmet emotional and sexual needs can profoundly influence intimacy and conflict. Her work integrates conflict resolution, emotional regulation, relationship repair, sexual healing, conscious communication, and rebuilding emotional and physical intimacy, helping individuals and couples move beyond repetitive cycles towards greater understanding, safety, connection, and choice.

She is also undertaking postgraduate/masters studies in Modern-Day Slavery and Human Trafficking, deepening her commitment to trauma recovery, systemic change, and survivor rehabilitation.

Her work integrates both clinical and complementary approaches to healing, drawing from extensive training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, CBT, ACT, somatic therapies, Polyvagal Theory, nervous system regulation, inner child healing, shame recovery, attachment work, sexuality, trauma-informed practice, and transformational and experiential modalities. She is also trained as a Somatic Polyvagal Recovery Specialist and Certified Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Practitioner, bringing a deep understanding of coercive control, relational trauma, emotional abuse, and the long-term impacts of survival-based adaptation.

Alongside her private practice and transformational work, Salayeh works as a First Responder Crisis Counsellor supporting individuals experiencing domestic and family violence, sexual violence, coercive control, narcissistic abuse, trauma, suicidality, and crisis-related distress. This work places her directly on the frontlines of trauma support, where she witnesses both the devastating impacts of abuse and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.

Salayeh founded HeartArise from a much larger vision: to build creative rehabilitation, trauma recovery, and sexual empowerment centres that challenge the shame, silence, and secrecy surrounding trauma, sexuality, abuse, and pleasure.

Her long-term mission is to support survivors of sexual trauma, domestic violence, coercive abuse, and sex trafficking in reclaiming safety, dignity, healing, purpose, and power — while helping individuals and couples rediscover connection, intimacy, trust, authentic expression, and the capacity for healthy, fulfilling relationships.