Mental Health and Wellness

You may have arrived here if you…

  • Tried seeking support for your mental health and well-being via secular psychotherapy but felt stigmatised and dehumanised by the non-Muslim professionals.
  • Unsure or feel ashamed to reach out to your community for assistance. Feel disconnected from your community, family, and friends as a result.
  • Want faith to be an important component of your life’s journey, but you’re fearful of ways that faith has been used as a tool to foster shame and blame.
  • Are not sure how to live a full life that reconciles faith with your mental health.
However, you arrived here, I’m so glad you’re here. Read on to see if my Mental Health and Wellness services might help you.

You might cope with these tensions by hiding parts of your Muslim identity in therapy and hiding your Mental Health and Spiritual Wellness struggles from your community.

Growing up in a secularised society your experiences in your Muslim identity isn’t understood and growing up in your Muslim community your mental health struggles aren’t understood.

 

You feel you need to hide these aspects of your faith in secularised therapeutic contexts. It creates a disjointed sense of identity.

 

..Or you may have coped by shutting down an entire portion of your mental health and wellbeing for the sake of remaining connected to your family and community.

I believe this estrangement and identity crisis– both feelings of not (truly) belonging anywhere are the root cause of your mental health and spiritual issues.

Unfortunately, this discretely fosters internalized hatred towards the parts of yourself that you’ve kept hidden.

 

If this is, you: you need a place where all aspects of who you are welcomed and celebrated in one space.

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I welcome all aspects of who you are.

I help you hold space between these tensions and create a space where all aspects of you are seen and validated.

In this space, I help you identify any sources of pain that may be keeping you from living a full life and help you reconcile all aspects of who you are so you can live a full, wholehearted life.

Generally, when we think of Mental Health we tend to focus on the physical aspects like the mind. However, the center of the body’s functioning is the heart and the heart is more than a piece of flesh in the body. When your heart is not at peace you can experience a multitude of psychological problems or difficulties, as well as physical ones.

At Nafs Counselling my approach is to work with you to achieve a sense of peace in your heart known as “Nafs Al Mutamainna” (peaceful-content soul) thus helping you to heal the points of dis-ease that have accumulated from your life experiences, with no more conflict, doing the right things by nature, not by compulsion and Insha’Allah you will be happy with the will of Allah SWT.

Services include:

  • Mental health: ADD & ADHD, PTSD, depression, anxiety, suicide prevention/behaviour/loss/ideation.
  • Emotional Health: grief/loss/bereavement, suicide bereavement, death doula, loneliness, social isolation, mindfulness, stress, burnout, anger.
  • Physical/Medical Health: illness and disability, cancer, chronic pain, miscarriages, infertility, post-partum, sleep.
  • Trauma: Intergenerational, narcissism, co-dependency, spiritual abuse, parental abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and Domestic violence abuse.
  • Addictions: Substance (Drugs and Alcohol), sex, pornography, gaming, gambling.
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A note on Mental Health and Wellness from an Islamic Perspective vs. Muslim Perspective

It is important to note that there is a difference between a Muslim Counsellor and an Islamic Counsellor. It is possible if one finds a Muslim counsellor, psychotherapist, or Mental Health professional they may not have been trained or offering their services with an Islamic Psychology lens and may be using paradigms rooted in other frameworks.

 

I utilise an Islamic guided and Prophetic framework inspired by the Quran, Sunnah, Hadith and the traditions of the scholars, while also incorporating modern Western interventions such as cognitive behavioural therapies (CBT), and narrative therapies that yield active and accommodative coping strategies that address your needs.

 

The BEST of BOTH worlds!