Maheen Hyder is a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist with over a decade of experience in refugee mental health, trauma therapy, and humanitarian settings.
She works with adults experiencing PTSD, complex trauma, depression, anxiety, grief, burnout, relationship difficulties, and major life transitions. Many of the people she supports are living with the consequences of experiences that continue to shape the present long after they have ended, including childhood trauma, sexual violence, forced migration, family rupture, loss, discrimination, and prolonged periods of uncertainty.
Her approach is informed by narrative, relational, and trauma-focused therapies. She believes that our struggles rarely emerge in isolation; they are shaped by relationships, histories, communities, and the worlds we move through. Therapy offers an opportunity to better understand not only what has happened, but how those experiences continue to influence the way we see ourselves, relate to others, and make sense of our lives.
Having grown up across multiple countries and cultures, Maheen brings a cross-cultural perspective to her work. She has particular experience supporting immigrants, refugees, third-culture individuals, and people navigating questions of identity, belonging, culture, faith, and life between worlds.
She is interested in the stories people inherit, the stories they resist, and the stories they tell themselves in order to survive. Her work is grounded in the belief that understanding ourselves more fully can create new possibilities for how we live, relate, and move forward.
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Maheen Hyder is a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist with over a decade of experience in refugee mental health, trauma therapy, and humanitarian settings. She has worked extensively with survivors of forced displacement, torture, sexual violence, and complex trauma across clinical, community, and humanitarian contexts. Her supervision approach is relational, reflective, and trauma-informed, creating space for clinicians to deepen their clinical thinking, navigate ethical complexities, and develop confidence in their practice. She has a particular interest in supporting therapists working with trauma, migration, refugee mental health, and cross-cultural clinical work.
