Dr Shadi Nowruzali is a general practitioner with a specialist PhD in counselling, and a counsellor at Moeen Counselling Centre. Medical training and counselling expertise meet in this work: supporting adolescents, children and parents, and giving psychological support to patients and families living with serious and chronic illness.
Education
- PhD in Counselling, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Doctor of Medicine (general medicine)
Areas of practice
- Adolescent and child counselling
- Parent counselling and communicating with teenagers
- Individual counselling, including depression and anxiety disorders
- Personal growth, goal setting and planning
- Counselling, education and psychological support for people with chronic illness and their families, including cancer and MS
- Psychological services for people with disabilities and for parents of children with disabilities
- Communication skills and managing family conflict
Academic and research interests
- Self-esteem in children and adolescents
- Education for parents of teenagers
- Psycho-oncology (psychotherapy for people with cancer)
- Brain performance and nervous system function
- Challenges facing schools and education
- Counselling for people affected by social harms, and for orphaned and neglected children
Professional and academic experience
- Counsellor at Moeen Counselling Centre in personal growth, depression, parenting and communicating with teenagers
- Psychological services at Moeen Counselling Centre for people with cancer or MS and for parents of children with disabilities
- Collaboration with the counselling centre of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Part-time teaching at the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Two years as a rural family physician
- Executive board member and scientific speaker, first National Congress of Rehabilitation Counselling of Iran
- Founder and secretary of the student scientific association for rehabilitation counselling
Publication
- Children and parents living with MS (book), co-authored with Dr Bahman Bahmani
Workshops and courses
- Courses for parents and adolescents, and psychology workshops for parents in Tehran schools
- Workshop on psychological care for parents of children with cancer, with MAHAK Hospital
- Workshop on rehabilitation counselling for people with cancer and MS
- Workshops on healthy lifestyle, personal growth and premarital understanding in the women’s dormitories of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Course on improving brain performance
- Psychology classes on preventing depression and healthy living, with the Seyyed Khandan neighbourhood health house
Voluntary and community work
- Board member of the Emrooz Chand Ghadam charity, which offers counselling to people with MS and spinal cord injury
- Central council member of the Hamyaran-e Zendegi charity (counselling in deprived areas on the outskirts of Tehran)
- Volunteer at a State Welfare Organisation-affiliated home for children without guardians
- Volunteer counselling for families affected by the war, with Tehran Municipality
To arrange counselling with Dr Nowruzali, please contact Moeen Counselling Centre.