Your liberation is my liberation!

I am a Licensed Certified Social Work Therapist and recently had the pleasure of working with Payam in alliance for a mutual client of ours who is working through severe childhood trauma.

I found Payam to be very skilled in helping my client expel a great deal of anger and pain with deep loving concern through his expertise with Plant and Earth Medicines as well as the IFS Therapeutic Model.

Payam and I met through virtual telehealth, for the duration of our client’s treatments, and maintained close and open communication. He expressed a very caring concern as to how my treatment went with our client after his own specialized work with this client had concluded.

Since then I have continued my own work, which has enabled my client to finally express catharsis and move much further past the trauma that has challenged them for a substantial part of their life. I am happy to recommend Payam with complete faith in his abilities and trust in a very respectful and helpful alliance with clinicians who work with traumatized clients.

— Lucy Barish, LCSW

Working with Payam has had an immense impact on my life.  I have experienced a profound transformation on the levels of consciousness, emotion, heart, body, mind, and spirit.  Payam opened his heart and mind to me, and fully dedicated himself to my healing process. 

He helped me find the tools to face both the dark and the light aspects within myself, and I have learned how to love myself and all of existence.  I have found the power that was always within myself. 

Payam’s ability to help me was deep, intuitive, compassionate, empathetic, and patient.  He has shown me how to open up to truth.  His love and concern for the total well being of all who work with him is incredible.  I’m so grateful for the new and beautiful path that this work has brought forth.

— Eli G.

Awareness and interest in finding ways to heal and grow has created a boom in the number of practitioners and therapy offerings out there. They are not all the same. As someone who has experienced a number of different therapies and transformational modalities I am grateful that my path has found its way to Payam.

Payam is someone who is as clear on his unique capabilities as he is a lifelong student of healing. He does not posture himself as a healer so much as he reaches to be a facilitator and conduit of healing that is already within you, that you yourself are the medicine that you need. This is not to say Payam doesn’t know his material. He absolutely does, and he is constantly learning through new coursework and experiences. What distinguishes Payam is his humility and a light, confluent touch that allows him to be open and integrative with what he knows rather than dogmatic or attached to any particular ‘way’. I have witnessed this dynamism on several occasions and have been amazed by his ingenuity and efficacy, but not as amazed as those it has served. This dynamism also extends into how Payam meets and interacts with who he works with; sometimes it is time for clarity, sometimes it is time to laugh, sometimes to exhale, sometimes another reaching. To me, this selfless dynamism is a testament to his commitment to healing.

This dynamism and non-attachment allows Payam to meet you where you are. This is essential given all the different ways we find our way towards doing the work we need to do on ourselves, to say nothing of what we think we are ready for, or not. I have been especially grateful that Payam has come from a worldview and lifepath similar to my own; one where my own idea of the legitimacy of my own value was based on external achievement and validation. His memory and journey from his own past made it easier for me to see how a new path of my own was not only possible, but exactly where I could head myself in a way of my own. 

Payam is the real deal. If you are ready to move forward with your own journey and healing, I would recommend you reach out and schedule a conversation. 

— Charles P.

It took me a long time to get up to writing about this. Thank you Payam for helping me get there and back.

The work that Payam performed on me was Deliverance. Thorough a very effective combination of suggestion, acupressure and Thai massage, he located incredible tightness in my back, heart, and throat, and with my participation, we worked them out. Time after time, he 'pulsed' the darkness from deep within me; “out, out, out.” "Not yours, not yours, not yours!" he repeated, as my whole body lifted from the floor -arched in a combination fish/full-wheel pose (back arched, crown of head and feet on the floor)- expelling bile from my mouth. Round after cathartic round, until there was no more. I was reset; empty and open.

What followed was the heaviest ceremony of my life. Empty and open, I took-on all of the pain in the circle, and then that of the world. It poured in. I saw that I could free the world from darkness if I simply ended the dream that is my life. Fortunately, I was surrounded by Payam and other brothers, who looked after me, chanted songs into my ears, and cradled me back from the depths of blackness into the light of a new day.

What I have today is first-hand perspective and understanding of duality; there will always be darkness for without it there is no light.

— Johnny S.

First of all, I thank the Universe for allowing me to cross paths with Payam.

I came to Payam as someone who had already started down the path of doing inner-work in conjunction with earth medicines and opening my consciousness and awareness.  Payam helped me take this to the next level and focus in on my pain, learn to sit with it, and accept the experience of it in a loving way. 

I've continued to attend the various workshops Payam set up and each session built upon the previous experience in a profound manner conducive to my healing. I've connected with so many people in Payam's community over the past year, all united in their individual journeys towards inner healing and growing awareness. It has been a source of strength and resolve to continue on this path. It has been a beautiful ongoing journey and I've been learning to love and forgive myself and this has been increasing my happiness on a daily basis. I deserved this and the world deserves the best version of me I can be.

Payam has been an instrumental part of my personal process. I consider him to be a healer, mentor, and friend. He's helped me heal, live more in my heart and get out of my head, become aware of my patterns, and simply be there for me. If you are serious about doing inner work and feel stuck in your progression and conventional means have not helped you, I'd advise you to speak with Payam, educate yourself about what he does, and follow your intuition. May the universe inform you it's time to step into your power. Payam can help you with that.

 — JT Lee

I am a 71-year-old mother, grandmother and wife, amongst other relationships.

I have never been one to take drugs in the years that were so popular.  Although I was part of the Hippie generation, I was very traditional.  I married during college and just celebrated my 50th wedding anniversary.

My husband and I met Payam through our son who felt that Payam had a unique ability to help people struggling in their emotional lives.

Our journey started because my husband has been severely depressed for years and we were hoping to find something that would help him figure out what he could do to have a better quality of life, to find some joy!  He has been on antidepressants (didn’t help much) for years.

Before working with Payam, he weaned himself off and is still not using them today.

He has seen numerous psychiatrists and therapists but he never really gets deep enough to discover the source of his angst. We have absolutely no problems financially, he is very healthy and has a wonderful support system, so the world should be something that he can fully enjoy, but something is preventing him from living his life as he would like to.

I did not expect to enter into this therapy realm with my husband but our son suggested that I do so, so that any experiences my husband had would be more understood by me, going through the same process.

I did not realize that I was also carrying deep pain from childhood experiences, nothing tragic but it nevertheless, has affected me through my life.  I actually look forward to my sessions because I feel that I am finding my true self.  I am seeing things that I buried deep and feel a release and an understanding of how I have reacted my whole life.  I understand and am working to undo unhealthy ways that I react and am more in touch with my ability to accept and forgive myself for not being as perfect and empathetic as I would like to be.  Through this work I can say I have felt the presence of the Divine, which I have never sensed before in my life.

Payam does offer some non-traditional therapy, but we have so much trust in him.  Therapy that might have sounded scary has turned out to bring more joy.  For me, it’s been a godsend.  My husband is still struggling to find his way but Payam has given him hope.  I don’t believe that my husband has ever felt as safe as he is with Payam… To look deep and try to find whatever it is that is holding back his joy.

Payam is an incredible healer.  He feels what his Seekers are feeling and he takes on more than anyone should be expected to.  He deals with some very difficult cases and he is all in with them, I know it can’t be easy. He is a true healer.

He is so full of love for people and gives his all, helping those who do not know how to help themselves. He is a gift to all who cross his path and take this journey with him.

— Anita B.