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Holding Our Own Space, to Hold Client Space, in Negative Societal Change

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Stephen Abdullah Maynard

Psychotherapy in context of the individual relationship, the organisational reality, and negative/ cultural/ societal impact

Stephen Abdullah Maynard Has been a counsellor for almost 40 years, he has worked in mental health, drugs counselling and HIV and private practice. In 1990 with Sabnum Dharamsi and the support of The Inner City Centre and The Lincoln Clinic he set up the Certificate in Counselling in the context of Racism, one of the first transcultural counselling certificate programmes in the UK.

Together with Sabnum Dharamsi in 1996 He developed the therapeutic model Islamic counselling. In 2008 He wrote the Department of Health Muslim Mental Health Scoping Report and in 2010 founded The Lateef Project an Islamic counselling service working in Birmingham and London.