Professional profile / Riyadh / 2026
Senior Clinical Psychologist · Writer · Leadership Advisor
I work with individuals, leaders, and organizations to understand the psychological forces shaping how they decide, relate, perform, and become.
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Profile
Not every psychological difficulty announces itself as a crisis. Sometimes it appears as repetition, distance, restlessness, or a life that continues to work while no longer feeling entirely inhabited.
My work begins beneath the visible problem. I pay attention to the person’s lived experience, relational patterns, language, contradictions, and the meanings carried by what cannot yet be said directly.
My clinical experience extends across hospitals, outpatient care, private practice, and national training programs in Saudi Arabia and the United States. This depth-oriented perspective also informs my work with leaders and organizations, where behaviour is shaped by identity, authority, belonging, ambition, and the system around the person.
Services
Each engagement is shaped around a real question, not a generic package. The work may be clinical, developmental, or organizational, but it remains attentive to both the person and the system around them.
For individuals
For people who are functioning on the outside while something essential feels unresolved within.
A more coherent understanding of what is happening, why it keeps returning, and what a more honest way forward may require.
For leaders
A psychologically informed space for leaders whose decisions, relationships, and authority carry real consequence.
Greater clarity under pressure, a more deliberate leadership presence, and fewer decisions governed by unseen personal patterns.
For clinical clarity
A structured evaluation when symptoms, cognitive concerns, personality patterns, or treatment questions require more than a brief clinical impression.
An integrated clinical report that brings test findings, history, observation, and context into a coherent formulation to inform diagnosis, treatment planning, or referral.
For organizations
Advisory work for organizations seeking to understand the human experience beneath performance indicators.
Clearer diagnosis of the human problem, stronger intervention logic, and systems that account for how people actually behave.
The Birkman Method
Behaviour is visible.
Need is often hidden.
Birkman is not used here as a colour report or a list of personality labels. It becomes a structured conversation about the gap between how a person usually behaves, what they need from the environment, and what others may see when those needs remain unmet.
The strengths and interpersonal style others are most likely to experience.
The less visible conditions required for energy, trust, and sustained performance.
Predictable shifts that appear when needs are overlooked or pressure accumulates.
The work, roles, and environments toward which motivation naturally moves.
What the consultation can reveal
Individual interpretation, contextual analysis, and practical next steps. Team and leadership formats are available.
Two sessions to understand the central pattern: strengths, needs, stress, and the question currently requiring direction.
Three sessions translating the profile into career direction, role fit, communication, and a practical development plan.
Four sessions examining authority, impact, conflict, decision pressure, and how leadership is experienced by others.
Method
I do not begin by forcing experience into a ready-made explanation. The work develops through careful inquiry, psychological formulation, and practical movement that remains faithful to the complexity of the person.
Clarify what is happening, what it means to the person, and what may be hidden by the first explanation.
Trace repetitions across relationships, decisions, stress responses, and the roles a person has learned to inhabit.
Turn understanding into choices, language, boundaries, and behaviour that can survive outside the consulting room.
Experience
Saudi Commission for Health Specialties · Residency & Fellowship Programs
Well-Being Center · Private Practice
King Fahad Medical City · Hospital Contract
Marifi Medical Center · Private Practice
Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group
Prepare to Change Clinic · Newport Beach, California
King Saud University · Expected 2027
Pepperdine University · 2020
King Abdulaziz University · 2012
Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis · 2021
Birkman International · 2025
Certified trainer and instructor · 2022
Clinical foundations
Psychological data becomes useful only when it is interpreted within the person’s history, current context, observed functioning, and the clinical question that brought them to assessment.
Experience administering and integrating Stanford–Binet, MMPI-2, Rorschach, TAT, ACE-III, and neuropsychological measures.
Findings are translated into differential understanding, treatment implications, and a structured report for the person or referring team.
Hospital and institutional work alongside psychiatric and medical teams, including complex case review and pre-surgical psychological screening.
Training mental-health specialists, mentoring junior psychologists, and facilitating structured support groups for healthcare trainees.
Writing
Published work
A literary exploration of loneliness, alienation, inner fracture, and the quiet ways a person attempts to return to himself. Written for those who have lived through something they could feel more clearly than they could explain.
“Sometimes the light does not disappear to leave us in darkness. It disappears because the eyes have postponed seeing for too long.”
Arabic translation published in 2019 under exclusive rights granted by the American Psychological Association.
Text & media discourse analysis
Language does more than carry a message. It organizes identity, distributes power, manages distance, conceals anxiety, and tells the audience how a person wishes to be seen. I analyse the psychological architecture of texts and public speech without turning interpretation into diagnosis.
Close analysis of recurrent language, omissions, contradictions, metaphors, emotional movement, and the relationship between what is said and what the text is trying to protect.
Clarifying the central idea, the order of disclosure, the hidden question, narrative tension, and the point at which information should be revealed for maximum meaning.
Turning written thought into credible spoken language: openings, pauses, pace, difficult transitions, memorable lines, and a conclusion that feels earned rather than performed.
Examining whether vocabulary, tone, claims, and emotional signals support the intended public identity — and identifying language that may create unintended readings or reputational risk.
Designed for
Speaking & media
Available for selected keynotes, professional workshops, media conversations, and leadership forums on psychotherapy, therapist language, workplace wellbeing, human behaviour, and the psychology of leadership.
Private consultation · Advisory · Speaking
For selected engagements in Riyadh and online. Share the nature of the request, the context, and what you hope the work will help clarify.