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Faysal Ahmed Rafi

Founder & Chief Psychologist
Faysal Rafi and Associates

Faysal Ahmed Rafi is a young professional psychologist in Bangladesh, who has currently been working with the young adult population of Bangladesh since 2015. His expertise in mental health well-being and psychosocial education has been displayed in more than thousands of therapeutic sessions, hundreds of training and public events, and development programs. He has been working to provide capacity development training by conducting workshops and raising awareness regarding mental health in various districts of Bangladesh.
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Expertise

Faysal Ahmed Rafi has completed his higher studies in Psychology at the University of Dhaka. He has working experience with well-known organizations like Kaan Pete Roi, Cap Foundation, Bdlisteners, Moner School, House of Volunteers, etc. He is also professionally skilled in Nonviolent Communication, Mental Health First Aid, Early Response to Trauma, Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Basic & Advanced Skills in Counseling & Psychotherapy, Befriending Model, Suicide Prevention, Mental Health Education, etc.

Counseling and Theraphy

85%

Training and Workshops

90%

Program and Module Development

88%

Innovation and problem-solving skills

85%
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Experiences
Under his guidance and exemplary leadership, a team of professionals works sincerely to ensure mental well-being for the people who are in need of support. He is the founder and chief psychologist of Faysal Rafi and Associates, where people can avail of psychological services.

House of volunteers

Moner School

Faysal Rafi and Associates

Counseling Psychologist Teacher Student Guidance Center, University of Dhaka

Provided psychotherapy incorporating cognitive-behavioral, client-centered etc to treat wide range of psychological problems in clients who are students of the university.

Mental Health & Career Counsellor (Part Time)Bijay Ekattar Residential Hall,University of Dhaka

Develop & deliver awareness programs to help the students about psychosocial skills and mental health issues.

Outreach Executive Kaan Pete Roi

Assist outreach coordinator depending on need and especially in the following sectors: * Organize paid trainings at the Kaan Pete Roi office,

Program ManagerCAP Foundation

This position is the spoke person for the Mental Health Program on site. S/he is responsible to design, develop and implement mental health care services for the population of Sylhet District on behalf of CAP Foundation.

Chief Executive Officer, Bdlisteners

Setting strategies and direction according to the vision and mission of the organization.
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Research Experiences

Completed a research project as a part of Masters program in educational psychology, the title was “Effect of progressive muscle relaxation practice on working memory among adolescents.” in 2017.

Completed a research project as a part of bachelor program in psychology name “Emotional Intelligence and Life Satisfaction as a protective and predictive factor of Suicidal Ideation” in 2015.

Worked as a research assistant to administer tests and train enumerators to administer psychological tests in the adaptation process of bangla version of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) IV and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) in 2014-2015
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Teaching & Training Experiences

Conducted more than hundreds of trainings and workshops with different youth groups on mental health and psychological issues across Bangladesh since 2015.

Gave more than hundreds of lectures and speech in different public events, media and online platforms.

Took warm up classes to prepare newly admitted students of master’s program on personality trait and development, research and experiment. Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, University of Dhaka, 2018, 2019, 2022.

Taught basic and advanced counseling skills to the master’s students of industrial and organizational psychology, department of psychology, University of Dhaka, 2019

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Counseling and Therapeutic Experiences & Skills

More than one thousand therapy sessions conducted including one to one individual session, couple therapy, teen and adolescents counseling, group therapy etc.

Equipped with different therapeutic approaches including psychoanalysis, gestalt therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, transactional analysis, nonviolent communication, trauma management, problem solving models etc.

Expert in Suicide prevention, relationship crisis management, personality development, parenting and parent-child relationship, career counseling, emotion management etc.
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Volunteer Experiences

Helpline Volunteer, Kaan Pete Roi (July, 2013 - December, 2015)

Teacher, Shwapno Roth - School for Street Children (May, 2014 to October 2014)

Organizer, Grand Get Together of Psychology Students (2013)

Worked for different clubs and lead different projects in school and college level.

TESTIMONIALS

I was going through the worst days of my life and didn't understand what was happening until Allah sent you for the rescue! Thank you so much Faysal Rafi bhaiya for all that you had to put up with me and for being patient all along.

Alhamdulillah Allah has Healed me through you. I will be forever grateful for what you have done. May Allah bless you and I hope you can be there for the people who need you. Trust me, you are doing great, so just keep going! The best Psychologist!

See you soon, In shaa Allah! Take care of your mental health too!

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Client: Female

Age: 22 Years
Location: Sylhet, Bangladesh

Doctor, I just realized that doing these sessions with you, over the course of all these months, has probably reprogrammed my brain on a subconscious level. I was supposed to overthink about something today (I usually get triggered by something like this). But I didn't!

Even when I'm consciously trying to think about it, my mind is too relaxed and its getting distracted from my usual "overthinking pattern". I have developed the ability to truly disregard it as irrational thinking. And I'm automatically focusing on other things. You have literally done something magical to me! Thank you so much.

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Client: Female

Age: 21 Years
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Greatly appreciate Faysal Rafi Bhaiaa's support during my hardest time. I took his sessions after trying v with a couple more psychologists and found his ones so helpful for me. Bhala is always very patient to listen. According to me, this is very important for counseling. He listened to everything I had to tell him. And he would suggest me something which was doable and wouldn't create much pressure on me.

One more thing wants to add that I liked about his counseling that he went over my background, from the very beginning of my life, for understanding me better To my understanding every patient is different and this is very important to know where they have come from and what they have gone through in their past. He tried to know me first and after listening a lot from me he suggested me some solutions those perfectly worked for me.

I absolutely loved the way he handled my situation. I will be indebted to him for keeping me calm and patient during my most hard time of life. I wish him all the best with his career and all his future endeavors

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Client: Female

Age: 26 Years
Location: USA
I thought I am an angel for many one..but you are awesome...really real angel i am not going to thank you only i want to say be like this..Allah bless u.
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Client: Male

Age: 28 Years
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
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    public awareness program and lectures

    TESTIMONIALS

    I was going through the worst days of my life and didn't understand what was happening until Allah sent you for the rescue! Thank you so much Faysal Rafi bhaiya for all that you had to put up with me and for being patient all along.

    Alhamdulillah Allah has Healed me through you. I will be forever grateful for what you have done. May Allah bless you and I hope you can be there for the people who need you. Trust me, you are doing great, so just keep going! The best Psychologist!

    See you soon, In shaa Allah! Take care of your mental health too!

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    Client: Female

    Age: 22 Years
    Location: Sylhet, Bangladesh

    Doctor, I just realized that doing these sessions with you, over the course of all these months, has probably reprogrammed my brain on a subconscious level. I was supposed to overthink about something today (I usually get triggered by something like this). But I didn't!

    Even when I'm consciously trying to think about it, my mind is too relaxed and its getting distracted from my usual "overthinking pattern". I have developed the ability to truly disregard it as irrational thinking. And I'm automatically focusing on other things. You have literally done something magical to me! Thank you so much.

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    Client: Female

    Age: 21 Years
    Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Greatly appreciate Faysal Rafi Bhaiaa's support during my hardest time. I took his sessions after trying v with a couple more psychologists and found his ones so helpful for me. Bhala is always very patient to listen. According to me, this is very important for counseling. He listened to everything I had to tell him. And he would suggest me something which was doable and wouldn't create much pressure on me.

    One more thing wants to add that I liked about his counseling that he went over my background, from the very beginning of my life, for understanding me better To my understanding every patient is different and this is very important to know where they have come from and what they have gone through in their past. He tried to know me first and after listening a lot from me he suggested me some solutions those perfectly worked for me.

    I absolutely loved the way he handled my situation. I will be indebted to him for keeping me calm and patient during my most hard time of life. I wish him all the best with his career and all his future endeavors

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    Client: Female

    Age: 26 Years
    Location: USA
    I thought I am an angel for many one..but you are awesome...really real angel i am not going to thank you only i want to say be like this..Allah bless u.
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    Client: Male

    Age: 28 Years
    Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

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