Linah Kareem

“Therapy is not about fixing you. It is about creating a space where you can feel, understand, reconnect with your strengths, and heal at your own pace, moving forward with greater compassion, awareness, and choice.”

Personal Experience & Biography

Linah Kareem is a Canadian-trained psychologist and psychotherapist with over 10 years of experience supporting individuals across Canada and the Middle East. Throughout her career, she has worked across community mental health, private practice, higher education, research, and executive wellbeing, supporting adults, couples, families, young people, university students, newcomers, and professionals from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Linah is a licensed Psychologist with the Community Development Authority (CDA) in Dubai and is also professionally licensed/registered in Saudi Arabia through the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS). Her professional background also includes Canadian psychotherapy credentials and membership with the Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association.

At the heart of Linah’s work is the belief that meaningful therapy begins with warmth, safety, and genuine human connection. She combines this compassionate approach with evidence-based psychological tools to help clients better understand their emotions and patterns, process difficult experiences, build practical coping skills, and reconnect with their strengths.

Her clinical training and therapeutic approach integrate EMDR, CBT, DBT, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, Narrative Therapy, trauma-responsive practices, ACT, and Play Therapy. Her work is holistic, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and tailored to each person rather than following a one-size-fits-all approach.

For Linah, therapy is not about fixing a person. It is about creating a space where people can feel, understand, reconnect, and heal at their own pace—moving forward with greater compassion, awareness, and choice.