Amal is a licensed mental health counselor with more than 20 years of counseling experience, specializing in trauma, personal growth, relationships, and professional therapy. A collaborative, solution-focused therapist, Amal provides personalized support and practical feedback to help clients effectively address personal life challenges, build on their strengths, and attain the personal growth they are committed to achieving.
Her approach includes both Solution and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, while incorporating Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness and Play Therapy techniques to lead to a more individualized approach to client care.
In addition to maintaining a private practice in Bonita Springs, Florida, Amal has worked with non-profit organizations as both a sexual victim and offender counselor and was the Lead Therapist for a group home for adolescents and the Specialized Therapeutic Counselor for an in-home therapy agency providing services to at-risk children in foster care. She has worked with children, teens, and adults in the areas of attachment, trauma, depression, anger management, anxiety, and domestic violence. In addition, Amal has conducted psychological evaluations and assessments, participating in Judicial Review Hearings and providing supervised visitation for displaced parents and children.
Education and Training. Amal earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications and Family Studies from the University of Kentucky and a master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from San Diego State University. She continued on to post graduate studies in the Joint Doctoral Program with the University of San Diego. She participated in the Accelerated Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School and completed additional post graduate studies in the Mental Health Counseling Master’s Program at Florida Gulf Coast University. Amal is a Clinical Member of both the National and Florida Associations for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers and is a Professional Member of the American Counseling Association and the Association for Play Therapy. She is completing specialized training as a Certified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reorganization (EMDR) practitioner and training to become a registered Play Therapist.
Professional Awards and Recognition. Amal is a Golden Key Honour Society and San Diego Workforce’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award recipient in addition to being twice nominated Woman Business Owner of the Year by the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce. She founded and operated five vital businesses and successfully grew one of my companies to be recognized and featured as #1 in the country’s “Top 100 US Fastest Growing Companies”; a nationally recognized industrial magazine.
Community and Global Service. Amal is an avid Domestic Violence Victim Advocate and peer counselor and serves as a spokesperson for the Naples Shelter for Abused Women and Children. She also is a strong proponent and supporter of the Tahirih Justice Center in its international efforts contributing to the Forced Marriage Initiative and ending human trafficking. She participates in humanitarian missions to war-torn countries counseling and advocating for displaced families transitioning into foreign cultures as refugees and has been a keynote speaker at several nationally recognized human services organizations and foundations.
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