Adam Ghemraoui is a School and Clinical Psychologist (M.A.) who has co-founded a mental health practice in the Grater Toronto Area. His work with youth involves helping parents better understand how to meet their children’s emotional needs. He assesses and provides treatment for children for learning and attention disorders, as well as adults for a range of mental health issues such as depression, anxiety and OCD. He has consulted with school teams and families across Canada on children’s behavioural, emotional, and academic issues.

Adam is very passionate about grassroots initiatives to help address local communities’ issues. He has taken part in various mentorship-type roles including counselling youth as a Camp Counsellor as well as providing academic counselling to those seeking to enter the field of mental health. He also hosts various support groups including for fathers and those experiencing grief. When he isn’t working to address our communities mental health challenges, he is busy running around after his two toddlers.

Asim Siddiqi (M.Sc, M.Eng.Design) is  a dynamic individual with a passion for making a difference. With a solid background of Masters Degrees in both neuroscience and engineering design, Asim combines his expertise to create innovative solutions that transform lives. He previously founded an autism healthcare startup, focused on improving the lives of individuals on the spectrum and their families, and now as a senior product manager, Asim continues to drive impactful change, overseeing the development of groundbreaking products and services in the incentive marketing space.

Farah Islam, PhD, is a mental health advocate, educator, and researcher. Dr. Islam holds an Honors Bachelor’s of Science in Neuroscience (University of Toronto), a Master’s in Neuroscience (York Univeristy), and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology (York University). She explores mental health and service access in Canada’s racialized and immigrant populations using mixed methods research and orients her research and community work around breaking down the barriers of mental health stigma. Dr. Islam is the the Director of Psychospiritual Studies at the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and teaches in the Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University.

Isa Abdur Rashid is Corporate Immigration Law Clerk at Rekai LLP where Isa assisted attorneys on Canadian and US work permit, visa and other Immigration applications. Prior to that Isa was an Analyst for US Immigration Case Management at Garson Immigration Law LLP.

Kamela is a Registered Psychotherapist and currently running her practice in Guelph which serves clients from all over the province. She works with individuals, couples, and families. She was a counselor with Youth Services of Peel where she worked for two years supporting youth and their families. She also did a lot of service navigation – working in collaboration with youth services, hospital/school social workers, psychiatrists, Children’s Aid Society, and poverty support program. Additionally, she also ran a 6 months Dialectical Behaviour Therapy program to support youth struggling with self-harming behaviour/suicidal thoughts. 

Kamela is currently wrapping up a diploma in Islamic Psychology offered by Cambridge Muslim College in the UK and am part of the very first cohort. The program teaches Muslim clinicians to best support Muslim clients by providing psychotherapy services in a way that is both in line with and respects classical Islamic teachings. 

Kamela runs an Instagram page called mindful.mend where she provides psychoeducational on navigating trauma and abuse in relationships