WHAT IS MEHFOOZ?

Mehfooz is an Urdu word synonymous with safety, comfort, and dependability. It reflects our aim to create a safe space beyond societal restrictions set around minorities of caste, religion, sexual orientation, and gender norms. We aspire to expand upon the emotion and warmth that comes from feeling Mehfooz.

 

Our therapeutic approaches are eclectic in their need to be customised to what the client’s concerns are. Therefore, all of our therapists at Mehfooz are trained in multiple relevant therapeutic modalities. Our therapeutic interventions build around a trauma-informed and queer-affirmative lens.

 

​We intend to have Mehfooz be a welcoming space, not only for our individual therapy sessions, but also with our Mehfooz Library where we share blogs, poetry, and newsletters as a dearth of resources written by mental health advocates. Mehfooz also holds events, support groups, group therapy sessions, case discussions, therapist supervision, and other beautiful learning opportunities for all of us to understand ourselves better.

 

If you would like to know more about our pedagogy, contact us. We would be happy to answer any questions you have about what we can do for you.