Maheen Hyder, MSW, RSW is a Registered Social Worker, psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor with more than 10 years of experience across community mental health, refugee-serving organizations, healthcare, humanitarian settings, and private practice in Canada and internationally.
Her professional experience includes work with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, Access Alliance Community Health Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital, the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, and the El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture**.
At ICA Counselling, Maheen provides dyadic and group clinical supervision to the clinical team, supporting therapists with case conceptualization, clinical judgment, ethics, risk, boundaries, and complex presentations.
Her areas of focus include complex trauma, PTSD, grief, migration, refugee mental health, attachment, anxiety, depression, and culturally responsive care. Her supervision is relational, trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and attentive to culture, identity, power, and the broader social conditions shaping clients’ lives.
