about

Farah built a renowned background in the field of visual journalism. Her career covering war zones in her ancestral homeland informed her trauma work as a psychotherapist. At the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, Farah lectured and co-created a course that taught students storytelling through an empathy-based approach. Her engaging lectures inspired students to reach their goals and discover their creative capacity.

Farah is mother to two teenage boys. She is of Iraqi Arab ancestry and was born in Edmonton. She has lived in Vancouver, New York, and on and off on Haida Gwaii since the 1990s. Her home is the forest in Tllaal. Farah holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology; she completed her practicum at the Skidegate Health Centre. She has basic training in EMDR, recently completed her Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certificate Program (MMTCP) through the Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and is currently awaiting her Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) license through the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC).