Zainab Farrukh

Zainab Farrukh is a clinical psychologist and trauma-informed therapist, and the sole practitioner behind Muslimah Wellness, an online therapy practice for Muslim women. Her own site presents the practice entirely through her: clients work one-on-one with her, in English and Urdu, over video sessions. ¹

She holds a master's in Clinical Psychology from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) and a second master's in Psychology from Quaid-e-Azam University, together with a diploma in integrative counselling and psychotherapy and certifications in trauma-informed practice, attachment theory and Internal Family Systems. She has more than seven years of clinical practice, including three years supporting patients in Pakistan and prior work with Telus Health on employee mental health programmes. Her practice serves women across North America, the UK, the Middle East and Pakistan, working with trauma, PTSD and CPTSD, anxiety, depression, grief and burnout through evidence-based methods that she describes as respectful of her clients' faith; she describes herself as a practising Muslim therapist. ¹

Alongside her clinical work she has written on psychology for About Islam, whose author profile describes her as a counselling psychologist inspired to bring about change at the individual, interpersonal and global levels, and lists the articles she published there in 2019. ²