Madeeha Afridi , MA, M.Ed, MFT (US)

Madeeha Afridi, MA, MEd, MFT is a Counselor at our Dubai Healthcare City branch. She is also a Mindfulness & Meditation Practitioner and Emotional Intelligence Coach at The LightHouse Arabia. Madeeha provides meditation training, mindfulness workshops, healing meditations, and emotion coaching to help her clients remove emotional blocks caused by stress, fear, anger, worry, procrastination, and perfectionism. Through a collaborative approach, she creates an environment that is positive, encouraging, and open, in which her clients can unlock the answers within themselves. Madeeha has the ability to create a sense of agency in her clients which allows them to take the necessary steps to achieve their life goals. She also helps her clients develop skills for problem solving and values driven decision making, which helps them gain confidence to live a life that is full of meaning, purpose, and authenticity. 
 
Madeeha’s qualifications and expertise are in integrating a holistic model of care that blends Western science, and the healing practices and philosophies of the East. 
 
Madeeha has extensive training and experience in mindfulness and meditation, as well as a personal practice of meditation, which supports to enhance her work with clients. She is also a Licensed Counseling Psychologist in the United States since 2011.

Works with Clients:
Adults (21 yrs+)

Languages:
English

Services Offered

• Individual Therapy
• Coaching

Treatment Approaches

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Schema Therapy
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Existential Therapy
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
• Compassion Focused Therapy
• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Integrative Therapy
• Narrative Therapy

Presenting Concerns

General Concerns: 

• Personal growth and self-improvement
• Adjustment to recent life events or circumstances (Not trauma)
• Stress
• Anxiety
• Panic attacks
• Low mood or depression

Specific Concerns: 

• Obsessive, repetitive and ritualistic thinking and behaviour

Relationship Concerns: 

• General dissatisfaction or improvement of romantic relationships
• Non-romantic and non-familial relationship concerns
• Family and family relationship concerns

Trauma: 

• Trauma or traumatic events (past or historic)

Qualifications & Memberships

• Emotional Intelligence Coach Practitioner  
• Oxford Mindfulness Center Mindfulness In the 21st Century
• Mindful Schools Practitioner
• Divine Healing Meditation Practitioner and Trainer
• MA in Marriage & Family Therapy, Adler School of Professional Psychology, US 2009
• M.Ed in K-12 School Counselling, DePaul University, US 2011 
• Licensed by Dubai Health Authority (Counselor at DHCC branch)