Komal Hamid

Komal is a Chartered Senior Clinical Psychologist with over 9 years of experience providing clinical services in hospital, private practice, and organizational settings. She has worked with a diverse range of individuals across various age groups, addressing numerous psychological, health-related, emotional, and interpersonal challenges.

Komal specializes in both short and long-term psychotherapy, utilizing an integrative approach that is tailored to meet each client’s unique needs. Her goal is to support clients in exploring the complexities of their internal world and to help them gain an understanding of, and find relief from, distressing feelings, thoughts, behaviors, and interpersonal difficulties. She believes that painful emotions and challenges are an inherent part of life. Through psychotherapy, Komal aims to address the pain, grief, and growth that stem from these challenges, helping clients to understand how they have arrived at their current situation and how to make positive changes moving forward.

Qualification and Memberships

• Relationship and Couple Therapist (Canada)
• Registered Behaviour Therapist (US)
• Masters of Science-Clinical Psychology (Pakistan)
• BS (Hons.)-Clinical Psychology (Pakistan)
• Member of Middle East Psychological Association
• Life Member of Pakistan Psychological Association
• Member of American Psychological Association

Areas of expertise

• Anxiety (generalized anxiety, panic attacks, phobias to extensive OCD)
• Mood disorders (Bipolar, Depression)
• Stress
• Self-esteem
• Anger management and assertiveness training
• Couple counselling and relationship difficulties
• Psychosis
• Eating disorders
• Social emotional problems of children and teenagers
• Parenting difficulties
• Educational and career difficulties
• Neuro-cognitive and personality assessment

Work Experience

• As a Clinical Psychologist my experience in mental health services are with a wide range of people who have varied psychological, emotional and interpersonal difficulties. I have practiced in varied settings, i.e., Hospitals, Rehabilitation and Medical Centres.

Therapeutic Tools

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• HEART Approach
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
• Individual and Group Therapy
• Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Mindfulness
• Psychometric assessments
• Personality assessments (MMPI, SIT, TAT, CAT)
• Neuro-cognitive assessments.

Language Spoken

• English
• Urdu
• Hindi