Rafu traces back through Persian to the Arabic root rafw — “to mend,” evolving in Urdu and Hindi, to mean ‘the mending of fabric, or the stitching of wounds.’
Urdu poets used rafū as a metaphor for this quiet, painstaking work. Ghalib and Mushafi wrote of hearts stitched back together thread by thread — mended again and again, and still whole — centuries before psychotherapy gave us the language to name what they already understood.
Life tears fabric we didn’t choose to weave. Becoming yourself means picking up the thread anyway — examining, mending, building a life that is unmistakably yours.
We call that work Rafu.
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I have been working as a therapist for the last 15 years. My training, supervision, art, and reading have all shaped — and continue to shape — how I see the world, how I listen for deeper meaning, and how I celebrate the uniqueness of each person who walks into the therapy room.
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