Relationship coaching & Consulting in NYC
Consult with Dr. Saliha Bava to create a more connected and meaningful personal, professional, and organizational life.
Practice Areas
Dr. Bava brings 30 years of experience to being a:
Therapist: Couple & Family; Organizations
Regenerate your relationships by breaking out of stuck patterns. Reexamine and make visible the social scripts constraining your creativity. Reignite the magic in the mundane. Relearn the value of disrupting hurtful patterns to write new scripts and design generative pathways for a richer life.
Consultant: Relationally Intelligent Leading
In an increasingly complex world, being an inclusive leader is not a noun or an adjective, but an action verb. Move beyond your "role" to harness the power of your vision and team as a relationally intelligent leader. Expand and execute for equity!
Facilitator: Creative Collaborative Team Building
In a rapidly changing culture, teams need agility, inclusiveness, and space for innovation. Dr. Bava leads teams in experiential processes to increase their sense of belonging, voice, and creativity. She designs customized processes for counteracting domination-based practices.
Trainer: Relational Practices for Inclusion & Belonging
Dr. Bava offers training for organizations and therapists on collaborative, dialogic, and relational practices for a connected and humanized life. She customizes engaged training for leveraging the power of uncertainty and disruption for inclusion, innovation and growth.
Dr. Saliha Bava
Dr. Saliha Bava, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, is interested in relationships and how relational play can help them grow. Her practice focuses on the “we spaces” between people in relationships, communities, and organizations.
Why Choose Dr. Bava
Consultancy is about the relationship and results! They are impacted by:
Experience
Dr. Bava has been committed to human development for over 30 years. Drawing on her experience from India, she brings an Eastern sensibility to the Western world she lives in. She has worked in the development sector, emergency response and recovery and in organization development/change. She has helped many relationships in personal and professional contexts. She is currently an Associate Professor of Marriage & Family Therapy at Mercy College for the past 10 years.
Approach
Dr. Bava approaches all consultation as a joint inquiry that builds on what works for you while attending to the context and the change you seek. Drawing on relational practices of collaborative-dialog and creative experiential methodologies, she designs the change process with clients. Her approach is to connect, contextualize, and co-create.
Focus
Dr. Bava focuses on the change you want and its relationship to your larger context. She listens with care and curiosity to your values, vision, and vulnerabilities from within your context to help you find a way that is personal and meaningful to you. She helps you map your strengths and gaps/opportunities. She helps you create the desired change where people want to belong because they feel seen and heard.
What Our Clients & Collaborators Say
Across contexts, Dr. Bava’s approach and skills to create transformation are well known. She has been called a “therapist for organizations” and therapist’s therapist.
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From Dr. B's Desk
Dr. Bava, a New York state Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, is interested in relationships and how relational play can help them grow. Check out the resources on the “we spaces” for people interested in relationships, communities, and businesses.
COVID-19: Learn how to Care for Relationships
Relational Play Podcast: The Conflict Game
Podcast: Preps & Check-ins During COVID-19
Book
Relational Intelligence Resources
Checkout the books authored by Dr. Bava to grow your relational intelligence in your personal and professional lives.
Audio
Relational Play Resources
Take a listen to grow your relational superpowers with your partner, children and friends. Practice tips included.
News
Trainings & Workshops
Stay tuned for the up coming workshops and trainings worldwide. Online training and supervision groups are also offered currently.
Intern with Dr. Bava
Are you a student? Want to be a research intern with Dr. Bava?
Dr. Bava runs a Play Lab in NYC where she explores the generative value of improvisation in emergence in everyday life of couples, leaders, and organizations. Contact her if you want to join her research team.