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Administrative Board

Lina Ibrahim

President

Approved EMDR Consultant

Certified EMDR Therapist

Lina Ibrahim, MA, is an Educational Psychologist who received her degree from the American University of Beirut. She has a private practice and has more than 20 years of experience in psychoeducational testing and in the treatment of school-age children who have learning, intellectual, behavioral, social, and emotional problems. She is a certified EMDR therapist and has been using EMDR therapy with children, adolescents, and adults for the past several years. She is also an EMDRIA approved consultant in EMDR working with therapists trained in EMDR to improve their therapy skills. Ms. Ibrahim is also a former part-time psychology instructor at the Lebanese American University and the American University of Beirut.

Marlene Maroun​

Accountant

EMDR Trained Therapist

Marlène Maroun, MA, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, who received her degree from Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK). She is certified as a psychotherapist in the Psycho-Organic Analysis approach for individuals, groups, couples, and family. She has trainer certificate in child protection from the British Council. She does psychological testing and diagnosis for children, teenagers, and adults. She has been working in several schools as a school psychologist since 2004. She has private practice where she works with children, adolescents, and adults with different types of psychological disorders including ADHD, anger/stress management, attachment disorders, psycho-somatic disorders, depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD, and emotional problems.

Christine Nassar​

Treasurer

EMDR Trained Therapist

Christine Nassar, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who received her “Doctorat d’Etat” in 1984 from Paris 5 university-Rene Descartes, Sorbonne, Paris. She is a Professor in the Lebanese University, and after retirement, she is still supervising Master’s theses and Doctoral dissertations. Moreover, she does psychological testing and diagnosis and uses different psychotherapeutic approaches in her psychological treatment, among which, are Cognitive Behavior Therapy CBT, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy ACT and, more recently, EMDR therapy. Dr. Nassar has written and published more than 15 books and has written many articles in different journals. She has participated as a lecturer in many national and international conferences.

Maureen Mahfouz​ Bejjani

Secretary

Certified EMDR Therapist

Maureen Mahfouz Bejjani, MA, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist who received her degree from Saint Joseph University. She is trained in Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and EMDR Therapy. She has a private practice where she works with adults struggling with different types of psychological disorders, including depression, PTSD, and different types of anxiety disorders. Ms. Mahfouz also works with an international organization, for Lebanon and Syria, as MHPSS technical coordinator. Furthermore, she trains people on issues of Trauma, Resilience, Psychological First Aid, WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP), and Self-Care.



Rachelle Dagher Bassous

Vice President

Certified EMDR Therapist

Rachelle Dagher Bassous, MA, a licensed Clinical Psychologist who received her degree from Haigazian University. She is a certified EMDR therapist also trained in CBT therapy. She has a private online practice where she works with clients from different parts of the Middle East and Gulf area, including Lebanese Expats. Some of the issues addressed are: Trauma, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Grief and relational difficulties. Rachel also works with a Lebanese NGO and has had experience in working with Trauma Healing with Yazidis, Iraqi and Syrian groups. She has also offered training for various NGO field staff in Crisis Debriefing, Vicarious Trauma and Burnout, as well as Self-Care methods.

Vera Chakour​

Board Member

EMDR Trained Therapist

Vera Chakour, MA, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist who received her degree from the Lebanese University. She is, primarily, a certified therapist in psychoanalytic therapy techniques, and she has more than 10 years’ experience in treating children, adolescents, and adults. She has her own private practice, and, in her treatment, she uses EMDR Therapy, art therapy, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), sex therapy, and suicide prevention therapy.

Jacqueline Saad

Board Member

Approved EMDR Consultant

Certified EMDR Therapist

Jacqueline Saad, PhD, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist who received her degree from Saint Joseph University USJ and got specialized in Ethno-psychiatry. She is a professor at the Lebanese University since 2012 and has more than 20 years of experience in psychotherapy. She worked as a psychologist with the adolescents of juvenile prison for 9 years. She has a private clinic where she treats adolescents and adults, by using cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), EMDR therapy, and Ethno-psychiatry. She presented several lectures nationally and internationally and has several publications and research studies.