Covering over your own truth - With Dr. Abdallah Rothman - Episode 83

Our guest today is Dr. Abdallah Rothman is the founder of Shifaa Integrative Counseling, co-founder and Executive Director of the International Association of Islamic Psychology, and the Principal of Cambridge Muslim College. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC), working at the intersection of Islamic spirituality and mental health practice. Dr. Abdallah holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology and his clinical practice as well as his academic research focus on approaching psychotherapy from within an Islamic paradigm and establishing an indigenous Islamic theoretical orientation to human psychology that is grounded in the knowledge of the soul from the Islamic tradition. He is a student of Professor Malik Badri and in addition to his academic training has studied privately with a number of traditional Islamic scholars throughout the Muslim world.

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http://www.shifaacounseling.com/blog

https://www.cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/about/people/principal/

https://www.islamicpsychology.org/

In this podcast we spoke about:

- The relationship between human psychology & Islamic spirituality

-Taboos surrounding mental health

- Spiritual bypassing

- Grief Management