Hazim Al-faouri, Canadian Certified Counsellor, Counselling Therapist (AB), Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) (ON)

Hazim provides client-centered therapy for individuals, couples, and families. With extensive experience working across diverse cultural backgrounds and age groups in both clinical and voluntary settings, he recognizes the profound ways our unique experiences shape our emotional and psychological well-being.

Background

Hazim works with children, teens, and adults, integrating EMDR, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Narrative Therapy to create a therapeutic space tailored to each client’s needs, goals, and lived experiences. His areas of focus include trauma, mood disorders, addiction, ADHD, anger management, and couples therapy.

Your therapeutic experience with me

Hazim has worked alongside people from all cultural backgrounds and of all ages in a variety of clinical and voluntary settings. I speak both Arabic and English and provide therapy in both languages. Focus Area I offer mental health counselling using a trauma informed lens with cognitive therapies (primarily SFT and CBT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Therapy area of focus: Trauma, Anxiety, depression, phobias, couples therapy, Grief and Loss, Anger Management and Behavioural Concerns, and more.

Areas of expertise

These represent my core areas of expertise, backed by specialized training and extensive clinical experience.

Complex Trauma

Couples Therapy (high Conflict Couples Or Couples Where One Or Both Partners Are Experiencing PTSD Symptoms)

Anxiety & Worry

Grief & Loss

Depression

Anger Management

I also provide skilled support in these additional areas and welcome clients seeking help with these concerns.

Emotional Distress

Emotional Regulation

Self Esteen & Self-worth

Assertiveness & Boundaries

ADHD

EMDR

Guilt & Shame

Obsessive–compulsive Disorder

Attachment

Therapeutic approaches

These are my primary therapeutic approaches, backed by specialized training and extensive clinical experience.

EMDR

EMDR supports individuals by facilitating the brain's natural healing process for traumatic or distressing memories. It uses bilateral stimulation, like eye movements, to help clients reprocess these memories, reducing their emotional impact and allowing them to develop healthier perspectives.

Solution-focused Therapy

Solution-focused therapy (SFT) helps clients by shifting the focus from problems to solutions, empowering them to identify and utilize their strengths to achieve their goals. It's a collaborative, future-oriented approach that emphasizes building on past successes and creating a vision for a desired future.

Acceptance Commitment Therapy

This modality helps clients by teaching them to accept difficult thoughts and feelings, rather than trying to control or avoid them, and to commit to actions that are aligned with their personal values. This approach fosters psychological flexibility, enabling individuals to navigate life's challenges with greater resilience and live a more fulfilling life.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

(CBT) helps clients by teaching them to identify and change negative or unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, leading to improved emotional well-being and coping skills. It focuses on the present, empowering clients to manage current challenges and develop strategies for dealing with future difficulties.

Client communities & cultural expertise

These are the client communities and cultural backgrounds I have specialized experience supporting.

Client populations I serve

Adults

Children

Older Adults

Young Adults

Parents

Cultural expertise

Middle Eastern

Indigenous Community

Newcomer And Refugee

First And Second Generation Immigrants

First Responders

Professional credentials

Canadian Certified Counsellor
- No.10008967

Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association

Counselling Therapist
- No.2865

The Association of Counselling Therapy of Alberta

Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
- No.13931

College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario

Educational background

Masters of Counselling psychology

Adler University, Canada

Practice locations & services

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