Mental, emotional, physical, and community health care - rooted in cultural awareness.
Your story, your heritage, your whole self - welcomed here.
How We Work
You deserve care that sees the whole of you.
We honour the wisdom and healing traditions of the Arab World, African nations, all of Asia, and the Global South. We pair this deep respect and evolving understanding with the best approaches from Western/Eurocentric medicine and psychology.
In a rapidly changing world, our goal is to help you feel truly well and live a life of purpose and meaning.
Our team comes from 22 different countries, all bringing skill, integrity, and creativity to your care.
Whoever you are and wherever you come from, you will be met with respect and openness.
“To colonize is to capture, to take, to control, to disconnect, to disenfranchise, to deidentify. To decolonize is to reclaim, to reconnect, to honor, to recognize our interconnectedness with all living things.”
“To commit to love is to commit to a life beyond dualism.”
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“So many of us here come from somewhere else, carrying our ancestors in our nervous systems. We have been welcomed by those who have been shaped by this land. Community isn’t a concept here - it’s medicine.”
What We Offer
We meet every person as a complete, complex human being - woven from culture, memory, body, and community.
All services available in English, Arabic, and other languages by arrangement
Book a Clarity Call or SessionIn Alphabetical Order
Children & Young People
أطفالنا
“We wish two things for our children: the first is roots; the second is wings.”
Sudanese proverb
Every young person who comes through our doors is held not as a patient, not as a problem to be solved - but as a whole person who is still becoming, and who deserves care that sees them fully.
Our vision for young people
Many voices, many approaches - the same journey into becoming purpose-driven, loving adults who know exactly who they are.
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We work with children and teens as whole people - not diagnoses, not deficits. Our approach weaves together psychological testing, evidence-based therapy approaches, embodiment practices, nutrition & body-awareness coaching, and community belonging - to help young people thrive.
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ADHD, autism, dyslexia, sensory differences are different architectures of mind & body. Our clinicians specialise in current, evidence-based & holistic approaches that honour the unique strengths of neurodivergent children while supporting them to develop their relationships, focus & general flourishing.
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Comprehensive psychoeducational assessments to understand how a child learns, processes, and flourishes - providing the evidence schools need to put meaningful support in place.
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Learning to navigate friendships, social cues, group dynamics, and one's own emotional landscape is among the most important work of childhood. Our sessions & groups focus on embodied, play-based, and relational approaches.
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We bring our expertise directly into school settings. Our child & teen team offer in-school assessments and therapeutic support.
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Finding their voice
We aim to help every child and teenager we serve find their voice - and use it wisely. Our work is culturally sensitive and culturally intelligent, drawing from the rich history of each family's own traditions while supporting young people to become compassionate, grounded citizens of the world.
Child Development + Wellbeing
Your child’s struggles are not defects; they are signals.
We work collaboratively with schools and families, listening to the signals behind behaviour and turning them into practical pathways for regulation, confidence, growth and learning.
Three pathways of support
Ages 6–11Active, purposeful support that helps children strengthen the skills behind learning, independence, emotional regulation and social confidence.
Ages 5+Thoughtful, evidence-informed psychology services shaped around each student’s experiences, strengths, developmental context and school community.
Ages 14+A ten-week secondary-school programme bringing together career direction, study skills, mindfulness and practical strategies for academic pressure.
Executive function in school
School is where children use these skills all day-following instructions, beginning independent work, organising belongings, managing transitions, coping with frustration and solving problems with peers.
Tier 1 · 2× weekly
Core goals including working memory, impulse control, task initiation, planning, organisation, flexibility and regulation.
Tier 2 · 3× weekly
Adds communication, perspective-taking, social awareness, flexible thinking and peer problem-solving.
Tier 3 · 4× weekly
Our most comprehensive level, adding support for anxiety, coping skills, confidence, resilience and wellbeing.
Programmes are personalised around each student and school.
Programme Supervisor: Dr Haneen Jarrar · Assessments Supervisor: Dr Diksha Laungani
Team: Silvia Casciano · Mariana Jamra · Nityashri Bhatt
Specialists in child, adolescent & family care
The Atfalouna Podcast · Dr Haneen Jarrar
A parenting podcast for the modern parent. Dr Haneen, our Clinical Director for Children & Adolescents, speaks openly about raising emotionally healthy, psychologically strong children - in Arabic and English.
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Our own Dominic Watts takes you on a raw, honest and laugh-out-loud journey through the madness of modern fatherhood - and what mindfulness really looks like in the messy middle of it.
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For all women · 18 & over
The Women's Collective is a home within our home - a dedicated space for women's healing, creativity, leadership, and connection. This work is built on the conviction that women need spaces designed for them, held by women who understand.
Explore Women's CollectiveWhat we offer
The Team
Women's Collective Lead
Leadership
Hormones & Mood
Embodiment
Food Freedom
Our Podcast
Dana and Briar in honest conversation - about women's lives, mental health, the things we don't say out loud, and the radical act of being genuinely well.
Personal Development
Learning that happens through experience & in community.
Because that is how real insight lands and lasting change happens.
Taught by
Aseel AlSaleh - Nutrition & Wellbeing
Taught by
Dr Nakita & Dr Sophie
Taught by
Nathalie Khalaf
Taught by
Briar Jacques - Embodiment Facilitator, Consciousness Coach & Astrologer
Taught by
Briar Jacques - Embodiment Facilitator, Consciousness Coach & Astrologer
New Families
الرعاية حول الولادة
Welcoming a child - whether through conception and pregnancy, or the opening of the heart through adoption - is one of the most profound acts a human being can undertake.
We offer whole person, culturally intelligent perinatal care that draws from both the wisdom of Eurocentric psychology and the ancient knowledge of this time as spiritual and transformative - something every culture holds about birth in its own way.
Pregnancy and childbirth often get over-medicalised. Comments like 'I didn't have a choice' or 'I had to' have become common when women recount their birth stories.
Medical interventions can save mothers and babies when needed. But has the overall risk-management focus, the ability to test and control, gone too far?
Birth - no matter how your baby arrives - is one of the most powerful acts of courage there is. Vaginal. Caesarean. Adoptive. Each contains the warrior moment & each is a sacred rite of passage.
Your body was made for this. Your lineage has done this ten thousand times before you. We are here to help you remember.
The new families journey
Pre-Conception
Pregnancy
Birth
Postnatal
Early Parenting
Pre-Conception Therapy
Exploring your own childhood, your attachment patterns, and your emotional readiness. Building and cultivating wisdom as you prepare for parenthood.
Embodiment & the Fertile Body
Learning to listen to your body's cycles with reverence. Yoga, breathwork, and somatic practices that attune the nervous system and open the body to its natural intelligence.
Nutrition & Functional Wellbeing
Nutritional guidance rooted in both evidence-based science and the dietary wisdom of your own cultural tradition. Food as preparation, not prescription.
Functional Medicine Support
A person-centred entry point into physical wellness, overseen by our Medical Director. Investigating the root causes that affect fertility and hormonal health - through medical testing, integrative interventions, and a full-spectrum approach that sees your body as whole, not a set of symptoms to be managed.
Adoption Psychological Reports & Supportive Therapy
Specialist psychological assessments and reports for those pursuing adoption, alongside supportive therapy to hold the emotional complexity of the journey - the waiting, the uncertainty, and the profound courage it takes to build a family this way.
Prenatal Psychotherapy
Working through anxiety, fear, identity shifts, and the emotional complexity of what is coming.
Prenatal Embodiment & Yoga
Movement practices designed for the pregnant body - breath-led, trauma-informed, and rooted in the wisdom that the body knows how to do this.
Prenatal Homeopathy & Nutrition
Holistic support through every trimester - managing common challenges naturally and preparing the body and spirit for birth.
Birth Preparation
Practical, emotional, and spiritual preparation for birth - whatever form it takes. Releasing fear. Building trust in your body. Tuning into your deeper knowing.
Partner & Father Support
Fathers go through pregnancy too - often invisibly. We offer dedicated space for partners to prepare emotionally, to understand their own transformation, and to step into fatherhood with presence and intention.
Birth Story Therapy
Processing your birth experience - whether it was beautiful, traumatic, surgical, or something in between. Every birth story deserves to be witnessed and honoured.
Adoption as Birth
The moment a child enters your family through adoption is as profound, as rupturing, and as sacred as any biological birth. We offer dedicated support for adoptive parents navigating this extraordinary threshold.
Traumatic Birth Processing
For those whose birth did not go as planned, or whose body carries the imprint of a frightening experience. Somatic and EMDR approaches to heal what conventional debrief cannot reach.
Postnatal Therapy
For the joy, the overwhelm, the identity shift, the loneliness - and all the feelings that don't have names. Individual and group therapy.
Postnatal Depression & Anxiety
Evidence-based, holistic, and culturally-informed support for perinatal mood disorders. We also acknowledge that what is often called 'postnatal depression' is sometimes a portal - an invitation to heal something that has been waiting.
Postnatal Embodiment
Restorative movement, breath, and somatic practices for the postpartum body - meeting it with reverence, not urgency.
'Holding the Mother' — Six-Week Postnatal Course
An in-person six-week course led by Dr Nakita & Dr Sophie, focusing on supporting you as a person and as a mother as you adapt, adjust, and grow. Deep discussion, mental health strategies and tools, somatic therapies to learn to hold yourself with more grace - all within a small group built on sharing, community, and belonging.
Functional Medicine Support
A person-centred entry point into physical wellness for the postpartum body, overseen by our Medical Director. Addressing the root causes behind hormonal shifts, fatigue, and recovery - through medical testing, integrative interventions, and a full-spectrum approach that meets you where you are.
Parent-Infant Attachment Work
Supporting the development of the most important relationship of a child's early life - through play, attunement, and the gentle repair of ruptures.
Parenting Support & Training
Practical, evidence-based guidance for navigating the realities of early parenthood - delivered with warmth, cultural sensitivity, and the understanding that there is no single right way to raise a child.
Child Psychology & Play Therapy
Specialist psychological support for babies and young children, using play as the language of healing. Addressing early developmental concerns, emotional dysregulation, and the impact of difficult beginnings - gently and at the child's own pace.
Father & Partner Integration
For fathers and non-birthing partners finding their footing in the new landscape of parenthood - building presence, connection, and confidence in their own approach.
One minute you are holding a feverish child at 3am wondering if either of you will ever sleep again. The next you are standing at an airport doorway trying not to cry because the same child now is alive but no longer fully belongs to you.
You spend years saying text me when you get there. Did you eat well? Wear a coat. And underneath all of it, the ancient prayer: please let this world be gentle with someone I love more than myself.
No one tells you that motherhood is also an ongoing act of transformation. Your heart starts living outside your body permanently. I look at my children now and still see every version of them at once — sticky hands, impossible questions, slammed doors and laughter from the back seat. The people they are becoming.
Time is ruthless. Motherhood is the reason. The reason I forgive it.
To the mothers, the stepmothers, the grandmothers, the mothers who mother friends, community, students, patients, strangers. To the women grieving mothers, to the women grieving children, to the women still hoping and those caring. Love and loss side by side today. Love leaves fingerprints on a life. Motherhood leaves them everywhere.
Naima Sears
Led by Dr Nakita & Dr Sophie
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Course · 6 Weeks · In Person · Small Group
Led by Dr Nakita & Dr Sophie
A 6-week in-person course focusing on supporting you as a person and as a mother as you adapt, adjust, and grow. Includes deep discussion, strategies and tools for supporting mental health, somatic therapies to learn to hold yourself with more grace - all within a small group built on sharing, community, and belonging.
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Course · 6 Weeks · In Person · Small Group
Holding the Mother
Led by Dr Nakita & Dr Sophie
Supporting you as a person and as a mother as you adapt, adjust, and grow - through discussion, mental health tools, somatic therapies, and community.
We believe that the quality of care we offer parents in these earliest chapters has consequences that stretch far beyond any individual family. The nervous systems we shape in early childhood become the emotional landscape of the next generation. Supporting healthy parents is - quite literally - one of the most important things we can do for the future of this world.
Begin your new families journeyPerinatal & early family care
For Families
علاج الأسرة الجماعي
Families are not collections of individuals - they are living systems, with their own language, history, and patterns passed across generations. When one member struggles, the whole system feels it. Family therapy at Freespirit Collective creates a held, culturally aware space where the whole family can be seen individually as well as in the room together: speaking, listening, and beginning to understand each other anew.
Family group therapy brings family members together with two skilled therapists who understand the dynamics of belonging, loyalty, and rupture. It is not about blame - it is about patterns. We help families see the invisible forces shaping their interactions, and find new ways of being together that honour each person's needs.
When communication has broken down between parents and their children - whether young children, teens, or adult children - we create a space to reconnect and rebuild.
Navigating partnership, parenting differences, or the aftermath of separation while keeping the wellbeing of children at the centre.
Extended family dynamics, intergenerational trauma, cultural identity tensions, and the complexities of raising children between two worlds.
Loss, illness, or major life transitions that affect all members differently but require collective processing and mutual support.
Every family has its own wisdom. Our work is to help you find yours again.
Our approach
Our family therapists hold deep cross-cultural competence. We understand that family means something different in every culture - that loyalty, duty, silence, and expression are shaped by history, migration, religion, and community. We never impose a single model of the 'healthy family'. Instead, we work with each family's own values, strengths, and story.
Systemic & relational family care
Couples Therapy
Couples come together for so many reasons - love, friendship, adventure, for work, through fate and, of course, to grow as individuals. Our couples specialists help you understand your attachment patterns, needs, habits, values and goals - so you can show up fully in the relationships that matter most.
Understand each other's attachment styles, communication patterns and deeper needs — so you can meet each other where it matters.
Rebuild trust, strengthen bonds and navigate the transitions and tensions that naturally arise across generations.
Explore the relational dynamics that shape how you connect, collaborate and show up for the people around you.
A safe, non-judgmental space to unpack what has happened and decide, together, what form your relationship needs to take going forward.
Build the foundations your partnership deserves — exploring values, expectations, communication and family patterns before you step into this next chapter together.
Pre-Baby Therapy
Prepare for one of life's most profound transitions. Explore your parenting values, family dynamics and relational needs so you can step into parenthood as a united, grounded team.
We offer a safe, non-judgmental space - equipped with the skills and supports to help any relationship find its way forward.
Specialists in relational and couples work
Emma Cousland
Social Worker & Therapist
Emotionally focused, attachment therapy
Dr. Fahad Alhammadi
Counselling Psychologist
Arabic & English, relationships specialist
Emma Baker
Counselling Psychologist
Psycho-sexual & couples specialist
Omniyah Hasan
Counselling Psychologist
Arabic & English, Internal Family Systems therapy for couples
Dr. Nifemi Ajala
Clinical Psychologist
Family systems, couples & clinical psychology
Dr. Sophie Sterling
Counselling Psychologist
Couples, families & postpartum support
Puberty & Menopause
انتقالات الأنوثة
Every hormonal shift a woman moves through is not a malfunction to be corrected - it is a threshold to be crossed with knowledge, reverence, and community. Grace and self respect during these transitions are not gifts some women are given and others are not. They are a birthright. So much of whether we meet shifts with power or with suffering depends on our relationship with our own body within the stories we have been told by society. We want to help women claim their own healthy stories.
Explore Feminine TransitionsThe story most women have been told about perimenopause and menopause is a story of decline. Of deficiencies and symptoms to fix. Hot flashes. Mood fluctuations. Loss of vitality. Low libido. Brain fog. Women have been told these are problems to solve. That something is going very wrong. Or that this is just the inevitable course of ageing & we should just accept & resign ourselves to being a bit ‘less’ from now on.
We hold a totally different truth. These changes can all be challenges, but they are not symptoms of dysfunction. They are communications - precise and purposeful - from an intelligent body. A body that has perhaps been asking to be listened to for years. The body at menopause is not failing. It is transforming. Transformation can be intense, which is why our approach is to meet the complexity of this time with complex care, supporting women on every level - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual & social.
What the body is actually saying
When we stop trying to suppress what the body is communicating and begin to listen to it instead, the information is extraordinary. The ‘symptoms’ of hormonal transition are almost always the body asking - clearly, sometimes urgently - for a change of context. A shift in what we eat, how we move, how much we sleep. A change of who we spend our time with, what we say yes to, what we finally allow ourselves to say no to. The body at perimenopause and menopause is asking us, often for the first time with real authority, to stop living a life that doesn’t fit us.
The female body is cyclical. The modern world is linear. This incompatibility is at the root of so much of what women experience as 'hormonal problems.' A culture built on 24/7 availability, hyper connectivity, constant productivity, and the suppression of natural rhythms is not built for any body - but especially not the female body. One of the most powerful things we can do at any hormonal threshold is to reclaim permission to live in accordance with our own true nature & honour the fluctuating reality of life - rather than forcing ourselves to conform.
You are being called to your radiance
Every culture that has not had its wisdom erased has understood that the post-menopausal woman is one of the most powerful forces in any community. She is the one who no longer bleeds her life force outward each month. She holds it. She distils it. She becomes the living repository of everything she has learned, survived, and integrated. The invitation of menopause is not to manage the symptoms of ageing - it is to finally become, fully and without apology, who you have always been.
Own your 'no'
Boundaries are not selfishness - they hold the shape of a life lived with integrity.
Share your wisdom
What you know - from decades of living in a body, navigating relationships, surviving and thriving - is needed.
Step into your creativity
Many women find the post-menopausal years their most creatively alive. The inner fire that sustained reproduction now fuels creation.
Age as a privilege
To grow older as a woman is not a loss to be mourned. It is an extraordinary gift - to be held sacred.
Specialists in Women's Health & Wellbeing
Sacred containers
Sacred containers for the life stages that are rarely honoured - each one held, witnessed and protected.
Workplace Wellbeing
العافية في بيئة العمل
We've curated a comprehensive, straightforward menu of talks and workshops - grounded in research and designed to strengthen key areas of human functioning, relational health, and psychological resilience. Whether you're looking to build emotional agility, foster psychological safety, or enhance team dynamics, these offerings provide a meaningful and practical way forward.
Our menu is arranged into four key sections - The Mind, The Body, Culture, and Spirit - designed so that HR and team leads can quickly assemble a full programme that precisely fits their people, their goals, and their culture.
Treating mental health and general wellbeing as central to strategy - not as a peripheral HR function - results in a stronger organisational culture, higher resilience across the organisation, and measurably enhanced leadership effectiveness. The importance of a psychologically safe, wellbeing-focused work culture has been robustly established through research. Wellbeing embedded in culture is no longer discounted as soft-skills training, achieved through guesswork, or treated as a nice-to-have. It is a strategic imperative.
Oxford University - 'Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters', De Neve (2025)
$1,533
vs $1,479
Return on $1,000 invested in companies with the happiest employees
versus the same amount in an S&P 500 tracker over 3 years
Oxford University / De Neve, 2025
£45B
Annual cost of poor mental health to UK employers
Including absenteeism, presenteeism, and staff turnover
Deloitte
23%
More profitable - top quartile employee engagement vs bottom
Organisations with highly engaged employees consistently outperform
Gallup
Wellbeing literally compounds like interest.
The 12 Drivers of Wellbeing at Work
Oxford University - 'Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters', De Neve (2025)
The Mind
Psychological Literacy
Building the psychological knowledge and practical tools that help people understand their own minds, regulate their emotions, and navigate challenge with greater skill.
+ additional topics available on request
The Body
Organisational Somatics
Bringing the intelligence of the body into the workplace. The body holds stress, carries culture, and is the primary instrument through which we do all of our work - and yet it is almost never included in professional development.
+ additional topics available on request
Culture
Interpersonal Dynamics & Relating
The quality of our relationships at work determines the quality of everything we produce together. These sessions explore the invisible dynamics that shape how teams function, communicate, and either thrive or fragment.
+ additional topics available on request
Spirit
Self-Leadership, Consciousness & Inner Development
The dimension of work that no KPI captures - and yet which determines everything. These sessions invite people into deeper relationship with their own values, meaning, and inner life, and the extraordinary quality of work that flows from that.
+ additional topics available on request
We know the challenge. You receive the findings of internal wellbeing surveys, you're watching your teams navigate complex internal and external pressures, and you need to translate all of that into an impactful, coherent series of workshops and talks - both in-person and online - that actually land. We've built this menu specifically for you. We ask only that you trust our talented and passionate people to meet your people where they are - whether your organisation is small or large, private sector or public, school, university, or corporate leader. We've got you.
Our team
15
Countries represented
9
Languages spoken
4
Disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, education, movement science
100%
Culturally sensitive, practically grounded
Sessions delivered in English, Arabic, Hindi & Urdu
Meet the Team
Built to fit your team
Keynote Talk
45-60 min
High-impact, single-topic sessions packed with practical tools and research insight - ideal for all-hands events, away days, and wellness weeks.
Workshop
2-3 hours
Deep-dive interactive sessions with reflection, practice, and group work. Meaningful learning that sticks beyond the room.
Half-Day Training
4 hours
Extended exploration of a theme or multiple related topics, combining input, practice, and group dialogue.
Full-Day Programme
6-7 hours
Comprehensive team development days - combining multiple topics, formats, and modalities into a cohesive, memorable experience.
Ongoing Series
Custom
A curated sequence of sessions over weeks or months, building a culture of wellbeing rather than delivering a one-off intervention.
No matter the size of your organisation, your sector, or the complexity of what your team is navigating - FSC is here with up-to-date, culturally sensitive, thought-provoking and genuinely engaging sessions that help your people thrive, even on the busiest of days. We meet your team where they are.
Immersive Retreats
The meaning
You know that place in Savasana - the deep rest at the end of a yoga practice - when you are still conscious but no longer quite earthbound? You have gone somewhere. Not asleep, not away. Somewhere deeply nourishing for your whole self.
That place is Ashunya. And every retreat we offer is an invitation to find it - not just on the mat, but in your days, your relationships, your life.
Our retreats
A call to women
Dearest Women,
Our Mother Earth and her people are moving through a time of great upheaval. Systems that have stood for generations are cracking open. What was hidden is being exposed - hopefully so it can be healed.
Now, perhaps more than ever, we need to be in our bodies. In our consciousness. In our wisdom. Each of us needs to play our own unique role in building a safer, healthier, kinder world.
The Earth needs women who are free - truly free - from the time and energy-wasting traps laid by capitalist, patriarchal societies. We all need feminine passion, intelligence, nurture, and strength to rise at this time.
We want women to let go of the insecurities and rules that keep them trapped in endless cycles of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and self-criticism. We want women to feel they are becoming stronger and more alive in every decade. We want women to truly support each other.
If we women can truly be free of the habit of shrinking, we can join together to do the work this moment is asking of us.
All our retreats hold this wish at their core - true sisterhood in empowered feminine communities, to support unique, unstoppable, creative women.
A call to men
Dearest Men,
The world is asking something of you right now. Not performance. Not dominance or the armour of certainty. Something older, and far more demanding: the courage to go inward.
We live in a time when masks are coming off - not just in the political landscape, but in the internal one. The systems men have been trained to uphold are fracturing. This is not a threat. It is an invitation.
We want men to feel the full range of what it means to be alive - the grief that was never permitted, the tenderness that was trained out, the creativity that was called impractical. We want men to discover in each other the deep relief of brotherhood.
A man free from the compulsion to perform, to dominate, or to numb himself is a man who can truly lead - his family, his community, his own life. The Earth needs this kind of man now.
The world is not waiting for men to have it together. It is waiting for men to be real.
All our men's retreats are built around this: embodiment, self-sovereignty, and the radical act of coming home to yourself - in the company of other men on the same journey.
Day retreats · Multi-day immersions · Local & international · Women's · Men's · Mixed
Enquire about a retreatthe Somatic programme
Our classes support your nervous system, your emotional system & your mind by working directly with your body. Through movement, stillness & enhancing your ability to truly listen to what your body is saying, we aim to help you find more freedom & flow in all your daily interactions.
Our classes are meaningful therapeutic practices on their own or a powerful complement to your talk therapy.
For all bodies over 18.
"Movement is what we are, not something we do"
- Emilie Conrad
Meet the Team
Join a class
200 AED + VAT
per class
850 AED + VAT
5-class package · use within 2 months
2,500 AED / month
Unlimited classes · prepaid
Price inclusive of VAT · Available for a limited time only
Can be shared with up to 2 nominated friends
Full access to all somatic and movement classes throughout the month — every offering included.
Class sizes are limited to 8 people maximum. Booking your space is essential.
Our Therapist Collective
Every practitioner at Freespirit Collective brings their own culture and learning history to their work, along with their past and ongoing formal training.
We are committed to teamwork - learning from each other, supporting each other and challenging each other. The more we grow through being in our Collective - both professionally and personally - the more we can serve the community with high quality, contextualised care.
‘If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.’
Leadership & Directors
Clinical & Therapy Team
in alphabetical order
Assistant Psychology & Internship Team
Our Care & Support Team
in alphabetical order
Finance Team
Community Support Groups
Humans are not designed to heal alone. Our community programs create the conditions for collective healing - where witnessing and being witnessed transforms not just individuals, but entire communities.
Here are our current Free Monthly Support Groups.
The FSC Library
We don't believe in waiting rooms. So instead, we created a library - a gentle, welcoming space filled with carefully chosen titles across many different themes, constantly updated and ready to be explored.
Here, you are invited to slow down, wander, browse, and settle in. There is no rush, no pressure - only a quiet place to rest, read, reflect and feel at home.
Our collection includes titles covering
Monthly feature
Each month our library wall becomes a different living gallery, showcasing the work of one local artist. We chose this not as decoration, but as a statement: health and wholeness exist so that we can make creative contributions to the world around us. Art is not separate from healing - it is one of its most natural expressions.
The Art Wall also serves as a direct bridge between artists and our community. Every featured work is available to view, enjoy, and purchase. We believe in closing the gap between the person who makes beautiful things and the people who need them in their lives.
Featured Piece: 'Whispers of a Dream' by Fatima Sherjan
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The library is part of our physical home at City Walk, Dubai - a space designed as a true refuge from the city's pace. Settle into a chair, choose something from the shelves, let time slow down. No agenda required.
We only carry products designed to support mind, body and soul - made by dedicated craftspeople, herbalists, and designers from the region. Everything we carry has been chosen because it has been made with intention and love. Nothing here is accidental. Nothing here is mass-produced for the sake of it.
Featured Makers
Region-rooted
Every maker, grower, or creator we carry is from or deeply connected to the Arab World or our region.
Made with intention
We only stock what we use ourselves - what has been made slowly, with knowledge, with care, and with love.
Nothing extractive
We will not carry anything that exploits traditional knowledge without consent, or that reduces ancestral practice to a commodity.
The store is available in our City Walk home. To ask about a specific product or maker, reach out directly.
Get in touchThe Collective Journal
A space for our Collective to write, reflect, and contribute to the conversations that matter - on mental health, physical health, emotion, embodiment, identity, culture, and what it means to be human.
Our practitioners writing from inside and outside the consulting room.
Dr. Asmahan Saleh
Counselling Psychologist & Child Specialist
I've lost count of how many times a mother has sat across from me, phone in hand, showing me a reel from a parenting account with two million followers.
Read full piece→Silvia Casciano
Child Counselling Psychologist
A boundary marks separation, but not necessarily distance. It can protect and contain, offering children the security of a sufficiently predictable world from which they can explore, step by step, and build their own autonomy.
Read full piece→Aseel Alsaleh
Nutritional Psychology & Wellness Coach
Stress has become more than just an occasional experience; for many, it's a way of life! a toxic, slow drip that gradually takes its toll until we find ourselves facing fatigue, burnout, or chronic stress. To combat this, we must shift our perspective and treat stress reduction as a lifestyle, not an occasional experience.
Read full piece→Dominic Watts
Therapist & Mindfulness Practitioner
Nobody. Nobody ever actually says that. It's just implied. Assumed. And like all other assumptions, it hides in the background, like a bat in the darkness of a cave, only seen in rare and fleeting moments as it goes about its business.
Read full piece→Briar Jacques
Founder & CEO
'Sovereignty' - middle English (originally soverainte), meaning excellence, high rule or rank. It shifted in the 14th century to start meaning supreme status and superiority. The power of a monarch. In Arabic the closest equivalent to this word seems to be سيادة (pronounced siyādah).
Read full piece→Dr. Jayde Sayers
Clinical Psychologist
You find a vape hidden in your teen's bedroom. You learn they've been drinking at a friend's house. For many parents, these moments feel scary and overwhelming - but understanding why teenagers take risks can change everything.
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Therapy works best with continuity. Our packages make sustained care more affordable - and the depth and consistency they create is where real change happens.
Psychology & Therapy
AED 900 / session
Normal rate AED 950 per session
Prepaid · claimable on insurance as per your policy
Not applicable to psychiatry
A gentle beginning. Ideal for those exploring therapy for the first time or working through a specific moment in their life.
Psychology & Therapy
AED 880 / session
Normal rate AED 950 per session
Prepaid · claimable on insurance as per your policy
Not applicable to psychiatry
For those ready to go below the surface. Eight sessions allow real therapeutic momentum - space for genuine transformation.
Couples Therapy
AED 1,600.80 / session
Normal rate AED 1,740 per session
Four weekly couples therapy sessions, offering focused support to understand patterns, strengthen communication, and move forward together.
Couples Therapy
AED 1,566 / session
Normal rate AED 1,740 per session
Eight weekly couples therapy sessions for deeper, sustained work on communication, connection, and lasting relational change.
Family Therapy
AED 2,208 / session
Normal rate AED 2,400 per session
Four weekly family therapy sessions offering focused support to understand patterns, strengthen communication, and navigate challenges together.
Family Therapy
AED 2,112 / session
Normal rate AED 2,400 per session
Eight weekly family therapy sessions for deeper, sustained work on relationships, communication, and lasting change within the family.
Prepaid package
Includes multiple clinicians · claimable on insurance as per your policy
For times of crisis or significant change. A lead therapist coordinates a bespoke, integrated intervention - drawing in medicine, psychiatry, social work, parenting, or child specialists as needed across 5 sessions.
AED 800 / session
Normal rate AED 850 per session
Four sessions of therapeutic social work support - addressing practical, relational, and systemic challenges with a holistic, community-informed lens.
AED 750 / session
Normal rate AED 850 per session
Eight sessions of sustained therapeutic social work - building the foundations for systemic change, stronger relationships, and lasting personal resilience.
AED 700 / session (incl. VAT)
with Dana Al Sheikh, Yasmine AlZaben or Dominic Watts
Normal rate AED 750 + VAT per session
Price is inclusive of VAT
Five sessions of consciousness-led work - exploring the deeper patterns of mind, identity, and awareness that shape how we move through life.
AED 675 / session (incl. VAT)
with Dana Al Sheikh, Yasmine AlZaben or Dominic Watts
Normal rate AED 750 + VAT per session
Price is inclusive of VAT
Ten sessions for deeper, sustained consciousness work. Space for real inquiry into the nature of mind, presence, and lasting inner freedom.
Prepaid
Unlimited classes
Price is inclusive of VAT · Available for a limited time only
Full access to all somatic and movement classes throughout the month - every offering included.
AED 700 / session
with Aseel AlSaleh
Normal rate AED 750 + VAT per session
Valid for 3 months from start date
Ideal for those wanting to begin building awareness & skills.
AED 650 / session
with Aseel AlSaleh
Normal rate AED 750 + VAT per session
Valid for 6 months from start date
Ideal for those looking for continued support & deeper integration.
AED 600 / session
with Aseel AlSaleh
Normal rate AED 750 + VAT per session
Valid for 12 months from start date
Ideal for those feeling ready to commit to longer-term growth & transformation.
*Unused sessions do not roll over after the package duration. Packages can be put on hold at request for up to 4 weeks.
Community Care
Fund someone's therapy journey who cannot access care on their own - whether by sponsoring a full therapy package for someone needing professional support, or sponsoring practitioners working on the ground in challenging contexts.
4 Sessions
A complete therapeutic arc - enough to begin real work and establish trust.
8 Sessions
Eight sessions allow genuine therapeutic momentum - space for real transformation.
Thoughts on Working With Us
Working with Briar helped me transform my life, reconnect with my true self, and navigate some of my greatest life challenges. I owe her more than words can express, and I'll always be grateful for the profound impact she's had on my journey.
All testimonials shared with permission. Names withheld to protect privacy.
Free · 20 Minutes · No Obligation
Book a free Clarity Call with one of our therapists - a conversation to help you find the right doctor or therapist to work with, or support group, class or course that feels right to you.
In-Person & Online
Happiness St, City Walk, Dubai
Phone
+971 4 285 22 92
info@thefsc.earth
Hours
Everyday 8am-8pm
