Luma Muhtadie, Ph.D.

Dr. Muhtadie is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in PTSD and complex trauma, attachment issues, and adjustment to stressful life transitions. She integrates evidence-based, emotion-focused, and somatic approaches in flexible, attuned, whole person-centered ways. Dr. Muhtadie creates a warm, genuine, and collaborative atmosphere in the therapy room that centers deep listening and relationship in the healing process. For the past several years, she has been immersed in clinical work and program development focused on racial-ethnic identity trauma and is deeply committed to providing culturally sensitive and responsive care to diverse individuals.

Dr. Muhtadie has served as a Staff Psychologist on the PTSD Clinical Team at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and as an adjunct faculty instructor at numerous institutions, including the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics; the School of Nursing and Health Professions at the University of San Francisco; the Smith College School for Social Work; and the California State University, Los Angeles.

Dr. Muhtadie earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where her clinical work and research focused on the role of mind-body connections in stress, mood, and wellbeing. She later completed a clinical predoctoral internship at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and a postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Los Angeles Ambulatory Care Center specializing in women’s mental health and trauma recovery.

Dr. Muhtadie is a longtime practitioner of yoga and meditation. She has traveled internationally to study these disciplines and to co-facilitate workshops that blend Western emotion science with Eastern contemplative practice to foster self-awareness, psychological flexibility, and compassion. Dr. Muhtadie has co-authored more than a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals and contributed as an author and editor to several books.