Nashwa Tantawy, M.A.

Licensed Psychologist & Couples Therapist
Managing Director

“We are all similar, yet everyone is unique and special. Individualized support can be an invincible power that helps you to enjoy living, not just survive!””

Personal Experience & Biography

Nashwa is a CDA Licensed Professional Psychologist, Researcher, and Speaker with more than 8 years of experience in helping adolescents, adults, and couples with a diversity of disorders and life challenges in Egypt and the UAE.

Further, she has more than 12 years of experience in mentorship and leadership. She is a Master’s degree holder in Counseling Psychology from The American University in Cairo where she has received her education and training by western educated high-profile practitioners.

Nashwa is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and an Executive committee member of the Middle East Psychological Association (MEPA)

Over the course of her career, Nashwa has been offering psychotherapy for clients from over 150 diverse nationalities in academic and private practice in Egypt and UAE. And as a believer in human uniqueness, she is tailoring her therapy model to the most effective, individualized need of her clients with a focus on client-centered and research-based therapy models.

Over the last decade, Nashwa has gained extensive experience helping healthy individuals and couples manage life challenges and find purpose and passion. And she has had experience mentoring and consulting executives and clients in corporate workplace on work-related challenges and mental well-being.

She is a researcher and speaker in the field of psychology; she presented her work about Personality Assessments, Borderline Personality Disorder challenges and Domestic Violence at several conferences including MEPA Annual Conference and Expo, and International Psychology Conference Dubai (IPCD).

Offered Services:

  • Individual Therapy to Adolescents (16+)
  • Individual Therapy to Adults
  • Couples Therapy
  • Workshops and Seminars

Languages:

  • Arabic
  • English

Expertise:

  • Anxiety
  • Adjustment/ Life transitions
  • Depression
  • Personality disorders
  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Relationship difficulties
  • Family/marital conflict
  • Pre-marital counseling
  • Bereavement and grief
  • Body image issues
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Expatriate adjustment
  • Self esteem issues
  • Stress management
  • Workplace challenges
  • Helping healthy individuals in major life decisions, finding purpose, passion and self-discovery
  • Media expert for print, radio and tv

Tools

  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy
  • Client-centered therapy

Qualifications and Memberships

  • M.A. in Counseling Psychology, The American University in Cairo
  • Member of American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Executive committee member of Middle East Psychological Association (MEPA)
  • Community Development Authority Licensed Psychologist (CDA) – Dubai
  • Beck Institute certification in CBT for Depression
  • Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy by Gottman institute
  • Training in DBT therapy by DBT founder Dr. Marsha Linehan

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Offered Services

Individual-Therapy-to-adolescents-(16+)

Individual Therapy to adolescents (16+)

Individual-Therapy-to-Adults

Individual Therapy to Adults

Workshop and event

Workshops and Seminars

Couples-Therapy

Couples Therapy