Ustadah Kawthar Ali

Dr Kawthar Alli is a Counselling psychologist with a doctorate in counselling psychology from the University of Manchester. She currently works in an inpatient NHS mental health unit in Manchester working with people with severe mental health  conditions such as schizophrenia and personality disorders. She also works with Ihsaan, an organisation that provides Islamically informed therapy. Kawthar has an interest in how Islamic psychological and Western approaches to therapy are utilised approaches by Muslim practitioners within the UK context. She conducted her Masters research on how Muslim therapists work with Muslim clients that attribute their symptoms to jinn possession. In addition, she conducted her doctoral thesis on exploring how Muslim therapists work with young Muslim children through an Islamically integrative approach