ABOUT MONA

I'm a Level 3 qualified Internal Family Systems practitioner and I first came across IFS as an effective model to work with trauma when I read Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps the Score. At the time I was deep into a personal inner inquiry about my own childhood trauma while holding fast to an intuitive belief that healing was possible - healing and transforming the root causes of pain and suffering rather than endless efforting to change my behaviour or attempts to bypass, dismiss or avoid my wounding. As I read more and educated myself about IFS, I knew I'd found something which aligned with my core beliefs and I opened to therapy, fully, in a way which I hadn't experienced before.

IFS brought such transformational shifts to my life and that's been the main inspiration behind my desire to learn, study and work with the model.

Influencing and enriching my IFS work is my background, experience and training in hypnotherapy, shamanic practice, early childhood education, authentic relating, sacred intimacy, grief tending, women's work, pregnancy and birth support.

I'm Palestinian by origin, currently living in the UK and working with clients of different backgrounds in English and Arabic.

PLEASE NOTE...

... that I'm not a conventionally trained psychotherapist and that there might be challenges you're experiencing which are outside of my expertise. If you're currently on medication for mental health issues or if you have psychotic experiences then I might recommend that you seek support from someone with more specific training. Please get in touch with me to discuss.