Rifa Wahl is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Pennsylvania with a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She works with adults and couples navigating relationship challenges, intimacy concerns, grief, trauma, and identity development. Her work often focuses on helping clients develop a stronger sense of self while making sense of the emotional and relational patterns in their lives while feeling less alone in the process.

Rifa’s approach is integrative, relational, and trauma-informed. Her work draws from psychodynamic and existential perspectives while incorporating evidence-based approaches such as DBT, ACT, narrative therapy, parts work (IFS), and somatic practices depending on each client’s needs. Much of her work centers on relational therapy with individuals and couples, supporting clients in developing healthier communication, deeper emotional awareness, and more secure connections in their relationships.

Before becoming a therapist, Rifa worked in finance and later gained clinical experience working at higher levels of care with individuals struggling with eating disorders and body image concerns. This work shaped her understanding of how closely emotions, identity, and relationships are intertwined, and how deeply human beings need connection to thrive.

Rifa works with adults from diverse backgrounds and approaches therapy with thoughtfulness, and a collaborative framework designed to support meaningful and lasting change.

Outside the therapy room, Rifa enjoys traveling, discovering new places, sunsets, scuba diving whenever she gets the chance, and listening to house music — something she finds both energizing and grounding.