Dr. Ahmad Aboul-wafa
About
Dr. Ahmad Aboul-wafa
Specialist Psychiatrist and Child and Adolescents Psychiatrist.
He graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University in 2007, and obtained a master's degree in NeuroPsychiatry from the same university.
He started his training and practice of psychiatry from the first day he graduated.
He worked as a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Dayman Ashab Center and developed it until he reached the rank of its medical director.
He also worked at Dar Al Mokattam for Mental Health and a number of NGOs working with violence victims and refugees.
He also worked in the General Secretariat of Mental Health and worked as a director of the Media and Public Relations Department and was one of the founders of the Mental Health Hotline.
He also founded Belaraby Initiative - the Arabic Psychological Awareness Project - which aims to create mental health awareness video content aiming to break the stigma of mental illness.
He received many specialized trainings in psychotherapy and has experience in applying the techniques of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (trained at Beck Institute - USA), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (trained at Linehan Institute - USA) and Couple Therapy (Emotion Focused Therapy) and Dynamic Therapy and Trauma Therapy in addition to his specialization in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Ahmed believes that psychotherapy is an art practiced collaboratively between the therapist and the client. He integrates all the techniques he masters to help the client reach his goals, heal, recover and build a better balanced life
