Working As Muslim Clinicians

Aisha Abbasi, MD (she/her) is a Geographic Rule Training and Supervising Analyst at the Florida Psychoanalytic Center in Miami and a Supervisor of candidates at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is a member of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, and the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society. Before moving to Oregon in 2023, Dr. Abbasi was a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute (MPI) for over 22 years and a past president of MPI. She is a Recipient of the Master Teacher Award, presented by APsA's National Candidates' Council. She's the author of The Rupture of Serenity: External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique, and the co-editor of the book Privacy: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms. Dr. Abbasi has been on the editorial board of JAPA and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is now the vice president of the Board of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She has authored several papers in analytic journals, book chapters, and presentations. She is also the proud Founder of Let's Talk: Exploring the Depths of the Mind, an online platform dedicated to the teaching and learning of all the insight-oriented psychotherapies, including psychoanalysis. She's also a published poet in her native language Urdu.

Sodah Minty, PsyD (she/her) is a clinical psychologist, a person of color, an immigrant, and identifies as Muslim. Sodah uses she/her pronouns, is able bodied, holds privilege as a citizen, and a cis gendered person. Sodah was born and raised in apartheid South Africa and draws upon her heritage of resistance to inform her work in the therapy space. Sodah is a co-founder of the Inclusive Muslim Mental Health Alliance, an intersectional mental health community for anyone who identifies as Muslim (spiritually, culturally, religiously or otherwise). She has just finished writing her first book on queer Muslim mental health, through Fernwood Publishing.