“A healer a soul therapist is someone who walks beside the suffering, helping them find a container in which their pain can take shape and become visible.”
– Stephen Levine
My name is Yasmin. I was born and raised in Iran, and at the age of 19, I left everything behind to begin a new life in the Netherlands with my mother. Arriving here felt like starting over like being a child again in an unfamiliar world. It took years before I felt at home. As a newcomer, I often felt like an outsider not fully belonging anywhere.
For a long time, I searched for home in people, places. One day, I made a quiet decision:
Home is not something outside of me. It’s something I have to feel inside.
And slowly, through deep inner work and creativity, I began to build that safe space within myself. Throughout it all, art was always there.
I studied graphic design in Iran, and after arriving in the Netherlands, I followed several art-related studies and courses. I didn’t complete them all, but each one brought me closer to myself.
At age 30, I experienced a deep personal crisis one that became a turning point. I began a journey inward, using therapy and art as tools to rebuild, remember, and reclaim who I am. That journey helped me grow into my identity as an Iranian-Dutch woman, rooted in both softness and strength.
But I want to be honest my healing journey has not been easy and it’s not over. I’m still healing. Still peeling back layers. Still coming home to my essence.To the part of me that believes we are more than our roles, histories, or labels and that true connection begins with radical inclusion: of all parts of ourselves, and all parts of each other.
This belief lives in my work.
It allows me to hold space with depth and humility not as someone who has all the answers, but as someone who knows what it means to be in the middle of the process. From this place, I chose to study Art Therapy, where art becomes a bridge to self-awareness and healing. Now in my fourth year, I bring this into the world not just in theory, but in practice.
I guide group and 1:1 sessions that invite people to create, reflect, and reconnect.
Spaces where silence is sacred, where art becomes language, and where healing unfolds gently, together. Through Kabila Healing Arts, I walk beside others not to fix or lead, but to be present. To offer a space where what’s hidden can become visible. Where you are welcome, just as you are.
