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SUMMARY:Navigating Mental Health in 2023 | Maristan
DESCRIPTION:Join Ustadha Dr. Rania Awaad and other therapists from this local non-profit organization Maristan as we launch this new initiative and discuss Muslim mental health and debunk myths around the topic of therapy and other help-seeking behaviors. \n\n\n\n1 p.m. to 3 p.m. | Saturday\, February 4 | MCC Prayer Hall | Free In-person or watch virtually at mcceastbay.org/live \n\n\n\nMCC is partnering with Maristan to offer mental health services to the 90\,000 Muslims in the East Bay. For mental health counseling services offered by Maristan at MCC: HTTP://mcceastbay.org/counseling \n\n\n\n\n– More Dr. Rania: HTTP://mcceastbay.org/rania\n\n\n\n– More mental health talks at MCC: https://mcceastbay.org/mental-health\n\n\n\n\nMake An Appointment\n\n\n\n\nMake an appointment online to see a Maristan Clinician at https://maristan.org/clinicians\n\n\n\nCall the Maristan Clinic Coordinator\, Jannah Sellars at (510) 380-7229\n\n\n\nEmail info@maristan.org\n\n\n\nHere are also other resources to help you get support.\n\n\n\n\nIf you cannot afford the therapy\, please let Maristan know. MCC has a standing commitment that the MCC covers any services provided in the four walls of the community center. \n\n\n\nAbout the speakers: \n\n\n\nSaha Jamshed\, LCSWSaha is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of California and currently practices as a Mental Health Therapist at Axis Community Health and Maristan. Saha provides support to individuals\, couples\, and families from diverse backgrounds presenting with symptoms of depression\, anxiety\, marital conflict and low self-esteem. She completed her master’s at University of Southern California and completed her training with a focus on Mental Health at John George Psychiatric Hospital. Saha utilizes a multitude of therapeutic intervention modalities based on the needs of the client\, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)\, Mindfulness\, Solution Focused Therapy\, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)\, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and stress management. Saha is certified as a Positive Discipline Parent Educator. She provides services in Dari and English. Simultaneously\, Saha has been working at NISA\, a Muslim domestic violence organization for over 15 years where she provides counseling and case management for survivors of domestic violence and abuse. \n\n\n\nNuzhath Quadri\, LMFTNuzhath is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She holds a Masters in Counseling Psychology from University of San Francisco. Most of her 10+ year career has been spent working with youth and their families through the Santa Clara Unified School District school-based therapy program. \n\n\n\nAlongside the school work\, her experience also includes working in community clinics with clients experiencing anxiety\, depression\, relationship challenges\, grief and personal life challenges. Her education focused on family systems approach but she pulls from various modalities\, including CPT\, DPT\, mindfulness-based interventions\, play therapy to meet her clients’ needs. \n\n\n\nHamed Fatahian\, AMFTHamed is a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Associate Professional Clinical Counselor who graduated with a master’s in counseling psychology from Palo Alto University. He works at New Paths (Couples Recovery Center). He specializes in couple therapy\, especially with the Muslim population. He has also trained in EFT over the past few years from ICEEFT (International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy). \n\n\n\nUstadha Rania AwaadRaised in the U.S.\, Ustadha Rania Awaad began her formal study of the traditional Islamic sciences when her parents permitted her to travel to Damascus\, Syria\, at 14. Her desire to continue studying the Deen resulted in multiple trips back to Damascus\, interspersed between her high school\, college\, and medical studies. She was honored to receive Ijaazah (authorization to teach) several branches of the Shari’ah sciences at the hands of many renowned scholars\, including many female scholars. She has received Ijazah to teach Tajwid in the Hafs and Warsh recitations from the late eminent Syrian scholar Shaykh Abu Hassan al-Kurdi. In addition to completing several advanced texts of the Shafi’i madhhab\, she is licensed to teach texts of Maliki fiqh\, Adab\, and Ihsan. Currently\, Ustadha Rania teaches online and local classes for The Rahmah Foundation\, Rabata\, and is on the faculty of Zaytuna College\, where she teaches courses in Shafi’i fiqh\, women’s issues in fiqh and has helped develop and co-direct the Tajweed and Hifz program. \n\n\n\nUstadha Rania is also a medical doctor with a specialty in Psychiatry. She completed her Psychiatric residency and fellowship training at Stanford University\, where she is currently on the faculty as a Clinical Instructor in the Stanford Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences department. Her medical interests include addressing mental health care concerns in the Muslim community- particularly that of Muslim women and girls. She has been awarded grants from the NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) to research this topic and has presented her findings at several medical conferences. Other ongoing endeavors include compiling manuscripts addressing female-related mental health and medical issues from a fiqh-oriented perspective. She currently serves as the Director of the Rahmah Foundation\, a non-profit organization that teaches Muslim women and girls traditional Islamic knowledge. In this capacity\, she also heads the Murbbiyah Mentoring Program\, which trains young women to teach and mentor Muslim girls and teens. Ustadha Rania is both a wife and a mother; she has been counseling and teaching women classes on Tajwid\, Shafi’i Fiqh\, Ihsan\, marriage\, and raising children since 1999.
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