This article first appeared in the July 2026 issue of Thresholds, published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Thttps://www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journals/thresholds/ ©BACP 2026. The Myth of Therapeutic NeutralityDownloadRead More

Identity and empire proofThis article first appeared in the January 2026 issue of Thresholds, published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. https://www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journals/thresholds/ ©BACP 2026.Read More

I’ve been battling colonial values my whole life. In therapy training, they arrived dressed as neutrality. There’s something almost elegant about that disguise. Neutrality sounds like fairness. Like an empty room, waiting. But rooms are never empty. They are furnished by whoever built them — their assumptions about what a self is, what healing looks...Read More

‘This article first appeared in the July 2025 issue of Thresholds, published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Thttps://www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journals/thresholds/ ©BACP 2025. The shadow of silence DownloadRead More

I am pleased to share these research outcomes on Islamic Counselling (the Dharamsi-Maynard model) from an evaluation carried out through The Lateef Project. The full report is in the paper published last month by Abdul Rauf, Noor and Maynard in Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. This infographic summarises the outcomes.Read More

Asalaamualaikum everyone! This article first appeared in the April 2025 issue of Thresholds, published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Thttps://www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journals/thresholds/ ©BACP 2025. Final Thresholds April 2025_DharamsiDownloadRead More

Final Thresholds January 2025_Dharamsi Asalaamualaikum everyone! This is the first of a regular column, called ‘Walking Lightly.’ I hope you enjoy..This article first appeared in the January 2025 issue of Thresholds, published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. https://www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journals/thresholds/ ©BACP 2025Read More

Another beautiful blog about OCD. May they help those with OCD, their families and friends and those for whom finding meaning is a struggle. “Hoover”. When my sister hoovers her home, she just “hoovers”. However, when I hoover my own home, I am thinking about the areas of my home that I need to clean,...Read More

Bismillah Hir Rahman Nir Rahim This beautiful blog is written by an anonymous beautiful soul whom I encouraged to share – I knew that what she shared would be so helpful to many of you. May Allah make this a sadaqa ijariya for her, and help all of those who struggle to find peace in...Read More

All peoples who need help deserve our support. This was the key message from the talks we gave at a recent fundraiser, as well as sharing how important it is for counsellors and psychotherapists to understand that the idea of neutrality is very often simply duplicating euro-centric ideas and values without question. Islam is so...Read More