Meet the MPP Family

I’m a Queer Lebanese Muslim Peer Counsellor and Project Lead at MPP. Over the past 7+ years, I’ve worked across 30+ teams within NSW Health, spanning hospitals and community settings, with a focus on lived experience practice and creative therapies. My work centres on child and adolescent mental health, forensic settings, drug and alcohol recovery, and suicide prevention.

I’m deeply grounded in Peer Counselling and the recovery model, holding space for safety, trust, agency, and choice. My approach is trauma-informed and culturally responsive, with a strong focus on QTBIPOC lived experience; because feeling seen and understood is where healing begins. I draw on CBT, DBT, ACT, and Narrative Therapy principles, guided by each person’s unique story.

I’ve developed poetry and music therapy programs, contributed to advocacy including banning conversion practices, and delivered lectures and training across Australia. I'm also a Writer/Director/Poet/Playwright/Musician and involuntary artist who’s running out of ways to express themselves.

I’m also a writer, director, poet, and musician. I believe in creating spaces where you feel safe, seen, and empowered to tell your story—softly, authentically, and on your own terms. I hope we can give you the tools and language to speak for yourself and tell your own story. If this sounds like what you need right now, I look forward to working with you soon- inshallah.

I'll be bringing my lived experience of mental health recovery into my practice along with my mixed cultural and mixed-faith background.I'm a registered counsellor who's worked in the disability, education, and drug and alcohol recovery spaces. I'm a passionate ally for the LGBTIQ+ community, having worked closely with South Asian and Muslim queer spaces over the years.

My therapist toolbox contains a range of modalities, including narrative therapy, art therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and acceptance commitment therapy. Importantly, my practice is trauma-informed and I’m always learning new and effective ways to hold space for pain and make room for healing.

When I don't have my 'counsellor' hat on, I'm usually sketching, dancing (badly) to pop music, or being held hostage by a sleepy lap cat named John.

I'm excited to foster deep community connections amongst our peers & fellow kin, setting up a foreground for our future generations to run freely. Through curating events, workshops & this digital realm, my role at MPP will be bringing us together. My background in volunteering as Digital Producer & Community Engagement for Race Matters on fbi. radio & studying Communications majoring in Media Arts & Production / Social & Political Science will inform my practice. I proudly identify as a queer Muslim & was born in Syria (I can speak Arabic relatively okay!). I love to dress up & dance with friends, play games, take photos, hang with my cats, Brick & Bilal.

I am an anti-oppressive Art Therapist with lived experience as an Arab/ Afro Trans person. I have a Master sin Art Psychotherapy, working with an emphasis on non-pathologising, anti-colonial therapeutic practice.

I believe deeply in the power of art making towards sustained, liberatory healing for both the individual and the collective. I therapeutically guide people towards their ancestral roots through clay-field, narrative and creative based therapy practices that induce ancestral and cultural memory. This approach seeks wisdom from grounded anti-colonial practices that heal the soul as well as the mind and body.

I am passionate about working alongside people, through art making and conversation, to heal trauma, understand their place in the world a bit better or generally build a stronger sense of wellbeing in life. They work with an anti-colonial and integrative approach that seeks to build community, celebration and safety for BIPOC and Queer people.

I enjoy the gift of queer SWANA community, making art for/ with friends or exhibitions and I’m always in pursuit of a body of water or a dancefloor to shake asssss.

I'll be weaving magic behind the scenes as Project Coordinator, helping us turn dreams into action, growing from the roots up. My work is dynamic: moving between helping produce events, finding grants for us to thrive, advocating for our work, or brewing a good pot of chai.

I love meeting you at events & having a yap, & am always thinking of ways we can create ecologies of care & do hard work with radical love. I bring with me 10 years of work in anti-racist & queer spaces spanning community radio (fbi + Race Matters), mental health & the creative arts. I am inspired by practices of emergent strategy, first nations systems thinking, ancestral wisdom, queer futurity, anti-caste & abolition. I try to honor - & continually learn from these - in all that I do.

I come from a lineage of mystics & warriors, proud of my mixed faith Tamil Bengali heritage a queer ancestors. I am honored to do this work & hope we can co-create spaces of joy, grief, curiosity & liberation.