Background & Approach
Clinical background, credentials, and the framework behind the work
I am a clinical psychologist with over two decades of experience working at the intersection of psychology, healthcare systems, and professional education.
I hold a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD), have founded two clinical psychology practices and a wellness center, and have taught at multiple universities. I have served as a principal investigator on research studies, developed curricula for healthcare trainees, and served as faculty for medical residents.
My research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy and the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. I am also a recipient of a Templeton Foundation research grant, one of the most competitive awards in the psychology and human sciences fields, supporting my research in Sufi Psychology.
I am the founder of the Caring 4 Our Caregivers initiative, which supported over 360 hospitals across four countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the President of the Sufi Psychology Association.
How this Work Developed
My work with healthcare professionals began before the pandemic, but it was during COVID-19 that its scope expanded significantly. As healthcare systems buckled under unprecedented strain, it became clear that burnout was not simply a personal problem. It was organizational, structural, and systemic.
That insight shaped everything that followed: a model that addresses both the psychological needs of individuals and the organizational dynamics driving burnout, across every level of the healthcare workforce, from support staff to executive leadership.
For more on my healthcare work, visit the Healthcare page. For my research and teaching, visit Teaching.
My Approach
At the center of my work is a question that professional training rarely asks: what allows a person to sustain themselves in a demanding career over time?
In healthcare, clinicians are trained to focus outward- on patients, on performance, on productivity. Over time, this can erode self-awareness, accelerate burnout, and disconnect individuals from the meaning in their work. Addressing this requires more than symptom management. It requires building the internal capacities that allow people to remain regulated, aware, and connected to their work in a sustainable way.
This is the foundation of my approach to preventative psychology, developing psychological capacity before distress becomes entrenched, rather than intervening only after burnout has taken hold.
The Framework
A central component of this work is the self-knowledge framework of Sufi Psychology, a discipline that examines the full dimensions of human experience, including thoughts, emotions, the body, and deeper layers of awareness.
This framework is used not as philosophy alone, but as a practical method, integrated with clinical psychology, stress neurobiology, and trauma-informed approaches, to help individuals and organizations develop greater clarity, regulation, and balance.
The aim is not short-term stress relief. It is a more sustainable relationship to one's work, one's role, and oneself.
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