Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre
Growing up in Istanbul, Turkey, and living in different cities around the world has allowed me to see the world through an intercultural lens. As a result, I have always been fascinated with communication across cultures, and this is why I value my work at Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre, where I practice psychotherapy with an intercultural focus.
Nafsiyat’s founder, Jafar Kareem, established intercultural therapy as a way to:
‘take into account the whole being of the patient – not only the individual concepts and constructs as presented to the therapists – but also the patients’ communal life experience in the world, both past and present. The very fact of being from another culture employs both conscious and unconscious assumptions – both in the patient and in the therapist.’
(Kareem, 1987)