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Sabnum Dharamsi

Sabnum Dharamsi is Lead Tutor for the Diploma on Islamic Counselling and certificated courses. She is the Convenor of the Islamic Counselling module for Cambridge Muslim College and co-founded the Islamic Counselling Courses.

Her previous consultancies are diverse and include Chair of the Muslim Women’s Helpline, Trainer for Women into Work for University, European Partnership Programmes, Tutor for Bedford College Person-Centred Diploma, and International Head Facilitator for the Academy of Self Knowledge (ASK) leading on student learning methods and the training and supervision of a global team. She was Teenage Pregnancy Coordinator (Commissioning) for the Luton Primary Care Trust and has conducted research, policy and training on health and welfare issues. Key areas of work include young people and violence, sex and relationships, drug use and lifelong learning. Her focus on Learning and Development has led to extensive programmes for Learning Skills Councils (LSC’s), the Home Office Board of Visitors, and BT.

Stephen Abdullah Maynard

Stephen Abdullah Maynard Has been a counsellor for almost 40 years, he has worked in mental health, drugs counselling and HIV and private practice. In 1990 with Sabnum Dharamsi and the support of The Inner City Centre and The Lincoln Clinic he set up the Certificate in Counselling in the context of Racism, one of the first transcultural counselling certificate programmes in the UK. Together with Sabnum Dharamsi in 1996 He developed the therapeutic model Islamic counselling. In 2008 He wrote the Department of Health Muslim Mental Health Scoping Report and in 2010 founded The Lateef Project an Islamic counselling service working in Birmingham and London.