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Consultant Clinical Psychologist · Corporate Trainer

Helping people heal.Helping organizations thrive.

Evidence-based psychology for individuals, leaders and workplaces — bridging trauma-informed clinical practice with the realities of executive performance.

Dr. Halima S. Qureshi, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Corporate Mental Health Trainer
PhD Clinical PsychologyCertified EMDR TherapistCertified CBT PractitionerMaster Practitioner NLPIFS-Informed Trauma Work10+ Years Practice

About

A clinician in the therapy room. A strategist in the boardroom.

Dr. Halima S. Qureshi has spent more than a decade helping people recover from trauma — and helping the organizations they work for become psychologically healthier places to be.

Her belief is simple and uncompromising: emotional wellbeing is not an HR initiative. It is a leadership responsibility. Her work joins evidence-based psychotherapy with practical workplace psychology, so that people recover and performance holds.

Dr. Halima S. Qureshi delivering a corporate stress management and productivity session
  1. Education

    PhD in Clinical Psychology

    Years of rigorous academic training in psychopathology, assessment and evidence-based psychotherapy, followed by advanced certification in CBT, EMDR and NLP.

  2. Clinical

    Thousands of therapy hours

    A decade of trauma-focused clinical practice with individuals recovering from PTSD, complex trauma, depression, anxiety and burnout.

  3. Academia

    University teaching & research

    Teaching clinical psychology at university level and researching the intersection of trauma, resilience and workplace performance.

  4. Enterprise

    Founder & CEO, Psychologists Hub

    Building one of Pakistan's most respected mental health platforms — a multidisciplinary team serving individuals, institutions and organizations.

  5. Corporate

    Boardrooms and leadership teams

    Designing psychological safety, resilience and leadership wellbeing programmes for banks, telecoms, healthcare, development sector and government organizations.

Signature philosophy

“Mental health is not merely about healing people. It is about helping individuals, leaders and organizations perform sustainably — while protecting human wellbeing.”

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For organizations

Programmes built for boards, managers and the people they carry.

Designed with HR and L&D leaders, delivered with clinical depth — and always measured against the outcomes your leadership team actually cares about.

Executive Coaching

One-to-one psychological coaching for senior leaders carrying decision fatigue, isolation and sustained pressure.

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Leadership Development

Emotional intelligence, difficult conversations, conflict and change — taught as clinical skill, not soft skill.

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Corporate Training

Bespoke workshops on stress management, resilience, burnout prevention and workplace communication.

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Mental Health Programs

End-to-end employee mental health frameworks: awareness, manager capability, referral pathways and measurement.

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Psychological Safety

Diagnosing and rebuilding the team conditions where people speak up, admit error and learn faster.

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Wellbeing Audits

Confidential organizational assessment with a board-ready report and a prioritised intervention roadmap.

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For individuals

Therapy that is careful, structured and genuinely evidence-based.

A confidential space for professionals, executives and families — where recovery is treated as a clinical process, not a conversation.

Trauma Therapy

Phase-based, trauma-informed treatment for PTSD and complex trauma, paced to the nervous system.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Structured, evidence-based CBT for depression, anxiety, OCD and low self-esteem.

EMDR

Certified EMDR for single-incident and developmental trauma, grief and intrusive memory.

NLP & Hypnotherapy

Master-practitioner NLP integrated where it strengthens regulation, focus and behaviour change.

Psychological Assessment

Comprehensive diagnostic, cognitive and personality assessment with clear formulation.

Online Therapy

Confidential sessions for clients across Pakistan and internationally, in English and Urdu.

TraumaPTSDComplex TraumaDepressionAnxietyOCDStressBurnoutEmotional RegulationSelf-esteemRelationshipsExecutive Stress

Signature framework

The HEAL Framework™

One method, applied at two scales — the individual nervous system and the organizational one.

Human Connection

Nothing changes without safety. Every engagement begins by earning trust — in the room, in the team, in the culture.

Stage 01

Evidence-Based Practice

Interventions drawn from clinical science: CBT, EMDR, trauma theory and organizational psychology. No guesswork.

Stage 02

Awareness

People and leaders learn to read their own signals — and the signals of the systems they operate in.

Stage 03

Lasting Change

Skills, structures and habits that outlive the session and the workshop, embedded and then measured.

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Why HSQ

Why organizations bring her into the room.

Clinical credibility, not motivational content

Sessions are grounded in diagnosis-level understanding of trauma, burnout and anxiety — because your people can tell the difference.

Fluent in the language of leadership

Psychological findings translated into retention, absence, decision quality and performance — the metrics your board reviews.

Designed for Pakistan's workplace reality

Culturally grounded, bilingual delivery that respects hierarchy, stigma and how conversations actually happen here.

Confidential and ethically bounded

Clear separation between organizational insight and individual disclosure. Trust is the deliverable.

Speaking

Keynotes for leadership summits, conferences and internal offsites.

Talks that leave an audience with a clinical vocabulary for what they have been feeling — and a practical decision to make on Monday.

  • Psychological Safety as a Performance Strategy
  • Burnout: The Leadership Failure Nobody Names
  • Trauma-Informed Leadership
  • Emotional Intelligence for Senior Teams
  • Managing Pressure Without Losing People
  • Building a Mentally Healthy Organization
Dr. Halima S. Qureshi presenting at a mental health awareness event
Keynote presentation · Islamabad

Trusted across sectors

Education

  • Public Universities
  • Private Universities
  • Schools Networks
  • Medical Colleges

Corporate

  • Banking
  • Telecommunications
  • Multinationals
  • Technology

Healthcare & Public

  • Hospitals
  • Government Bodies
  • Development Sector
  • NGOs

Named client engagements are shared privately on request, in line with confidentiality agreements.

Research & publications

Practice informed by research. Research informed by practice.

Active academic work alongside clinical and corporate engagement, with a focus on making global evidence usable in Pakistani contexts.

  • Trauma and post-traumatic growth
  • Burnout in high-pressure professions
  • Psychological safety in South Asian workplaces
  • Culturally adapted Cognitive Behavior Hypnotherapy
  • Mental health literacy in organizations
  • Emotional regulation and leadership decision-making
Google Scholar profile — on requestFull publication list & CV available for programme committees

Certifications

Credentials, verified.

PhD Clinical Psychology

Certified CBT Practitioner

Certified EMDR Therapist (Level I & II; Asia and Europe)

Master Practitioner, NLP (NFNLP, USA)

IFS-Informed Trauma Practitioner (FA, USA)

Cognitive Behaviour Hypnotherapy

Member, American Psychological Association

Certified Corporate Trainer

Testimonials

What organizations and clients say.

She spoke to our senior team without a single cliché. Within an hour, people were naming pressures they had carried silently for years.
Chief Human Resources Officer · Banking sector
The wellbeing audit gave us something no engagement survey had: a clinical read on why our best managers were leaving.
Head of Learning & Development · Telecommunications
Our faculty workshop was the most practical mental health training the university has hosted.
Dean of Faculty · Public university
Therapy with her was structured and calm. For the first time, recovery felt like a plan rather than a hope.
Private client · Executive, verified engagement

Media

Commentary, panels and press.

Available for expert commentary on trauma, burnout, workplace mental health and psychological safety.

Panel

Workplace mental health and the cost of silence

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Podcast

Trauma, recovery and the myth of resilience

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Press

Why burnout is a leadership metric

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Television

Mental health literacy in Pakistan

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Frequently asked

Questions we are asked most.

Contact

Start the conversation.

For keynotes, corporate programmes, executive coaching, media requests or therapy appointments. Enquiries are answered personally or by the Psychologists Hub clinical team.

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