Sahar Marawi

I am a Middle Eastern therapist, holding a license as a professional counselor. I am pediatrician in middle east spent ten years working as a pediatric hospitalist there. I have been working in the field of mental health since April 2023, following my graduation from the University of Phoenix with a Mental Health Counseling. I have received training in EMDR at the beginning of the year of 2023 and started then working as a trauma/PTSD therapist treating adolescents, adult, veterans and many kinds of trauma and abuse; also, I am trained in DBT, CBT, CANDIS program addiction and is currently doing IFS training.

I treat trauma/ PTSD, depression, anxiety and other mental issues, experienced in both individual and group therapy. and I work both in person and online. I utilize the weekends to spend time with my family and take care of myself. I am accessible some weekdays on evening, and on the weekends, and work with both adolescents and adults.

My approach in trauma therapy which I am passionate about, is first to build an empathetic rapport with my client and to make sure that my client is prepared well by providing DBT coping skills and grounding techniques before starting trauma therapy using EMDR.

It depends on my client's treatment plan goals; so if the clients seeking trauma therapy, I would like to make sure that they have the resources of healthy coping skills from DBT or CBT before we start trauma therapy using EMDR or TF-CBT. If the client is not familiar with DBT, I would like to start with DBT skills, then trauma therapy. I might integrate IFS theory as well.

Connecting and active listening with empathy to know my client, building rapport, setting client's own treatment plan goals.