ABOUT MONA
I’m a Level 3 and IFIO 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 this model.
Influencing and enriching my IFS work is my background, work experience and training in diversity and inclusion, hypnotherapy, shamanic practice, early childhood development, authentic relating, sacred intimacy, grief tending, women’s work, pregnancy, birth and end-of-life support.
I’m Palestinian, currently living in Scotland and working with clients of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, sexual, gender and/or neurodiverse identities and affinities, 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 challenges or if you are having or have had psychotic experiences, then I might recommend that you seek support from someone with more specific training. Please get in touch with me to discuss.