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

In this second stage of the progression route, students are invited into the world of nafsiyyat, the Islamic sciences of the self, as well as deepening their professional and personal understandings. Every aspect of the course is closely tied to theory in practice, so your heart is truly on a journey of service.Read 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

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

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

Nice to be published in the BPS Psychology Review – our articles came from talks that we gave which was looking at different concepts of well being across cultures. We spoke to Islamic concepts, but our emphasis was, as the titles indicate “How How do Muslims survive and thrive within secular and prejudicial spaces?Sabnum focused...Read More