A therapy practice for adults who feel stuck between worlds — carrying family history, cultural pressure, and the kind of exhaustion that a weekend off doesn't fix. Sessions online, in English, French, and Arabic.
Every client is met in the language their body knows best — not the one they learned to explain themselves in.
Online sessions with clients across the European Union, the Middle East, North Africa, and the diaspora beyond.
A structured clinical framework integrating neuroscience, somatic work, and postcolonial theory — developed in practice, not imported from a textbook.
What you're feeling is not a character flaw. It is a pattern the nervous system learned, in a body, in a history. Patterns can be changed.
You were raised between cultures and feel like you don't fully belong in either.
You're high-functioning on the outside — and exhausted on the inside.
You've tried therapy before, but it felt like it wasn't built for you.
You carry your family's pain without knowing where yours ends and theirs begins.
The NAP-D Protocol is a clinical framework built on four axes. It does not ask you to choose between what your brain needs, what your lineage remembers, and what the world put there. It works with all four at once, because nervous systems do.
The nervous system learned to survive something. We map those patterns — threat responses, memory consolidation, automatic loops — and use neuroscience-based interventions to help the brain build new pathways.
Family history, displacement, migration, and collective wounds live in the nervous system before you are old enough to name them. We make these inheritances visible — and workable.
Insight without action is incomplete. The third axis engineers measurable behavioural change — in relationships, at work, in the choices you can feel yourself making differently.
A lot of what feels like personal failure was put there — by family, culture, or systems that were never designed with you in mind. This part of the work helps you tell the difference between what is actually yours and what was handed to you.
Developed in practice since 2017. Not a replacement for psychiatric care.
Starting therapy is rarely the hard part — walking into the first conversation is. We've shaped the beginning to be as low-friction as possible.
We listen to where you are, answer your questions, and assess — honestly — whether NAL is the right fit. No commitment, no intake forms, no pitch.
A 90-minute conversation where Shainna listens to your full story — your patterns, your history, what you've already tried. You leave knowing exactly what the work will look like and where to begin.
Ongoing 60-minute sessions at your pace. Individual, couple, or family. Between-session support where clinically appropriate.
Anonymized by consent. No names, no before-and-afters. What remains is the shape of the change.
I've been in therapy for twelve years. This is the first time I could feel the work landing somewhere other than my head.
One shift: I stopped explaining myself before anyone had even asked me to.
She didn't ask me to translate myself. That alone changed what I thought therapy could be.
One shift: I started taking up space in conversations I used to disappear from.
It's clinical without being cold, cultural without being reduced to culture. That balance doesn't exist anywhere else I've looked.
One shift: I can feel the difference between my anxiety and my grandmother's now.
All testimonials shared and anonymized with written consent. Based on client self-report, 2023–2024.
Ethno-Neuropsychotherapist · Founder, Neuro Alchemy Lab
Therapy for people shaped by more than one world.
Shainna is a certified neuropsychotherapist specialising in intergenerational and transgenerational trauma, with a particular focus on ethno-decolonial approaches to healing. Her clinical framework — the NAP-D Protocol — integrates neuroscience, somatic work, and postcolonial theory to offer something rarely found in mainstream therapy: a space that understands where you came from as much as where you want to go.
She works with individuals, couples, and families in online sessions, reaching clients across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and beyond. Her practice is grounded in the belief that no healing can be complete without acknowledging the systems — personal, familial, and cultural — that shape the nervous system.
The NAP-D Protocol started with one question: why do so many smart, self-aware people hit a wall in therapy — not because the work is wrong, but because the framework can't hold everything they're carrying?
After years of clinical work across cultures, languages, and continents, one thing became impossible to ignore: your nervous system carries your family's history, not just your own memories. The NAP-D Protocol was built to work with all of it — without asking you to leave any part of yourself outside the door.
Conversations on neuroscience, ancestral memory, and decolonial healing — available wherever you listen.
Also available on YouTube →
NeuroscienceThe neural basis of anxiety isn't what most people think — and understanding it is the first step to interrupting the loop permanently.
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Trauma & HistoryThe stories we inherit aren't only in our memories — they live in our bodies, reflexes, and relational patterns. Here's the science.
Read more → HealingYour brain can change. Not metaphorically — physically. Here is what the science says and exactly how we use it in the practice.
Read more →Every session is a doorway. Choose the one that resonates with where you are right now.
A 20-minute conversation with no commitment. We listen to where you are, answer your questions, and assess if NAL is the right fit.
Deep, personalised sessions targeting your specific neural patterns across the three axes — brain, history, and present behaviour.
For couples and families navigating attachment wounds and systemic dynamics — with the same evidence-based rigour as individual work.
For those ready to commit to concentrated, measurable change. Eight weeks. One focused container. Results that hold.
Bespoke clinical programmes for teams navigating burnout, conflict, and high-performance pressure — at the neural level.
The most common ones — answered briefly. If yours isn't here, WhatsApp Shainna directly and she'll reply within 48 hours.
No intake form to start. No questionnaire to survive. Just one conversation, in the language that feels most yours, with the person who will do the work beside you.
No commitment. Just tell us a little about where you are, and Shainna will respond within 24 hours.