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Mission
About Our Practice
Empathic Resonance provides adult, child, and adolescent psychiatric consultations and services grounded in empathy-centered, neuroscience-informed practice. Founded by Firas A. Nakshabandi, M.D., a double board-certified psychiatrist trained at Harvard and the University of Chicago, the practice integrates psychotherapy and medication management for a highly individualized and holistic approach. Our mission is to promote empathy through clinical care, education, and consultation, helping individuals understand themselves in relation to others and supporting meaningful growth and resilience, moving beyond healing to thrive.
Vision
What
What
What
Our vision is to elevate empathy as a foundational force in mental health and society. We aim to expand awareness, education, and clinical understanding of empathy so individuals, families, and communities can thrive with deeper connection and emotional resilience
How
What
What
We advance this vision by applying Empathic Resonance as a core framework for therapy, psychiatry, and education. Through neuroscience-informed practice, public education, and accessible clinical care, we help people strengthen their empathic capacity and transform how they relate to themselves and others.
Why
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We believe that cultivating empathy has the power to heal not only individuals, but entire systems. When people understand and resonate with one another, suffering decreases, relationships deepen, and communities grow stronger. Empathic Resonance exists to help move the world in that direction. “Empathy is a path to understanding oneself in the context of others.” – Firas A. Nakshabandi, M.D.
Areas of Expertise
Empathic Resonance–Based Interventions
Psychotherapy for Physicians, Residents, and Fellows
Psychotherapy for Physicians, Residents, and Fellows
A unique, empathy-centered therapeutic approach integrating neuroscience, emotion regulation, relational healing, and expanded circles of concern.
Psychotherapy for Physicians, Residents, and Fellows
Psychotherapy for Physicians, Residents, and Fellows
Psychotherapy for Physicians, Residents, and Fellows
Confidential, medically informed psychotherapy tailored to the unique pressures of medical training and practice. Support includes burnout prevention, impostor syndrome, perfectionism, identity development, and navigating high-stress clinical environments.
Supervision-Informed Clinical Consultation
Psychotherapy for Physicians, Residents, and Fellows
Supervision-Informed Clinical Consultation
Consultation for licensed mental health professionals navigating complex cases, transference/countertransference dynamics, burnout, or professional identity development. Integrates psychiatric insight with relational, psychodynamic, and empathy-centered approaches.
Trauma & PTSD
Faith, Culture, and Mental Health Integration
Supervision-Informed Clinical Consultation
Healing-focused therapy for trauma, including EMDR and trauma-informed approaches. Develop safety, grounding skills, and long-term emotional recovery.
Grief & Loss
Faith, Culture, and Mental Health Integration
Faith, Culture, and Mental Health Integration
Compassionate support for navigating grief, bereavement, and profound emotional loss. Learn to process emotions while honoring what matters most.
Faith, Culture, and Mental Health Integration
Faith, Culture, and Mental Health Integration
Faith, Culture, and Mental Health Integration
Culturally informed care that respects religious identity, spiritual values, and community expectations. Ideal for Arab, Muslim, and immigrant populations balancing tradition with modern life demands.
BIO
About the Founder
Firas A. Nakshabandi, MD, FAPA
Founder & CEO
Dr. Nakshabandi draws from 10 years of psychiatric training experience across a wide range of settings including Harvard Medical School, The University of Chicago, The Department of Veterans Affairs and over 40 different sites across two continents. He is double board-certified in both Adult as well as Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and is a former clinical associate at the University of Chicago. He has undergone extensive training in a wide array of therapeutic techniques, medication management algorithms, and complementary approaches to treatment. His treatment approach is rooted in empathy and strives to heal by evoking it.
The result is a highly individualized approach that draws on a wide range of disciplines and tackles the challenges at hand from multiple angles, ensuring the highest probability of success.
"I do not believe that there is just one glove that will fit everyone. I have dedicated almost two decades of my life to learning various treatment modalities because I believe the more tools I have the better I am able to help you, and the more tools I am able to pass on to you the better you are able to help yourself". "Treatment is just the beginning, I want to help you look beyond and to thrive".