Working with Anxiety and Depression in Muslim Clients Integrating Faith

🕊️ Workshop Overview

Join us for an inspiring professional development workshop exploring how Islamic faith, culture, and spirituality intersect with emotional wellbeing and mental health.

This training is ideal for counsellors, therapists, coaches, and wellbeing practitioners who wish to deepen their cultural competence and integrate faith-sensitive, holistic approaches into their practice.

Through reflective learning and practical tools, participants will discover how to bridge modern psychological understanding with Islamic wisdom and healing traditions, empowering them to support Muslim clients with compassion, insight, and authenticity.

🎯 Workshop Objectives

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
✅ Understand the interplay between Islamic culture, mental health, and professional interactions.
✅ Identify and address common misconceptions and biases surrounding Muslim clients and mental health.
✅ Learn evidence-based techniques to support clients in managing anxiety and depression using culturally relevant approaches.
✅ Explore holistic, body-centered, and spiritual methods to support healing and emotional regulation.

📘 Workshop Outline

1️⃣ Foundations of Islamic Culture

• Core Islamic beliefs and practices (prayer, fasting, modesty).
• Diversity within Muslim communities.
• The role of spirituality and tawakkul (trust in Allah) in coping with distress.

2️⃣ Anxiety and Depression in Muslim Clients

• Unique stressors: discrimination, Islamophobia, identity struggles.
• Guilt, shame, or stigma related to faith and mental health.
• Encouraging help-seeking and breaking stigma through compassionate engagement.

3️⃣ Understanding Anxiety and the Body

• How anxiety impacts the nervous system (Polyvagal Theory overview).
• Integrating psychodynamic, Gestalt, and ACT approaches.
• Restoring safety and balance through body awareness and grounding.

4️⃣ Islamic Holistic Approaches to Healing

1. Healing Body & Soul through Fasting
2. Healing Anxiety & Depression
3. Healing with Prayers
4. Dreams and the Subconscious
5. Oxygen & Breathwork
6. Healing Emotions & Discharging Negativity
7. Marriage as a Path to Healing
8. Healing with Colours & Elements
9. Boundaries & Emotional Balance
10. Gratitude and Connection with Allah

5️⃣ Relationships and Boundaries

• Supporting clients in setting healthy boundaries.
• Navigating family and cultural expectations with respect and wisdom.

6️⃣ Tools & Resources

• Recommended readings, faith-sensitive resources, and useful apps.
• Practical tips for maintaining cultural sensitivity in virtual and in-person sessions.

🌿 About the Facilitator – Amal Omran

Amal Omran is a highly experienced counsellor and therapist with over 25 years of practice. She is the founder of Counselling Tutorials Academy, an educational platform offering workshops and professional training for counsellors and therapists worldwide.

Amal’s work integrates Islamic spirituality, psychology, and holistic healing to create a balanced approach to emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Her teaching is known for being heart-centred, reflective, and deeply transformative, empowering both professionals and individuals to grow, heal, and connect with purpose.

🌸 Join Us

Join this enriching workshop and enhance your skills in working with Muslim clients from a faith-sensitive and holistic perspective.
Together, we’ll explore how healing can flow through both the mind and the heart, guided by wisdom, compassion, and respecting Islamic culture 🌿

What you can expect from this workshop:

• We aim to provide a safe space to explore the benefits of body-based meditation

• There’s a good mix of teaching, experiential practice, and discussion.

CPD certificate will be provided on request for a small fee.

Testimonials:

"I was drawn to this workshop to enable me to develop my empathic understanding of clients who practice the Muslim faith and also to gain an understanding of people who come from a different culture/heritage. I felt the course was well planned and relevant.

For me personally it would have been more helpful if the content was covered at a slightly lower pace. The workshop gave me a feeling of connection and gratitude.

I gained an insight into the Quran's teachings on health and wellbeing and gained an appreciation that clients who practice a faith may wish to work in a spiritual way and also that culture and faith can be different. I would definitely recommend this course."

"Thank you so much for the session today. You provided a wealth of information. I loved the holistic approach to dealing with anxiety, it makes so much sense to understand how anxiety manifests itself in the body and I really liked the breathing and body scan practises. You have given me lots to think about professionally, as a counselling student and personally."

"I really enjoyed it, it has been really good to experience an overview of tools and modalities that can be used. I like the way you have tailored it to my needs which was really personal and very effective"

“Really nice workshop, I liked the exercises, your warmth and openness, having to discuss exercises with new people”

“knowledge and explanation of reptilian brain and thinking brain”

“I liked the self-development aspect of the day. The meditation was fantastic. I really feel I was able to connect with my inner child and have been able to identify her needs, and how these impact my relationships, I would have liked the day to be longer”.