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Stephanie Ghanem

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Stephanie Ghanem

Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Trauma focused therapist and Writer Specialized in integral therapy for autism and other related conditions.

Mental health professional, Clinical Psychologist, Licensed Psychotherapist working with Children, teens and adults. Offering counseling services, psychological tests and psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families. Founder and owner of MISHA ngo working with children and young adults with special needs. Writer at Rassef22 and Tv / radio guest speaker since 2015 about mental health.

متخ

صصة في علم النفس العيادي ومعالجة نفسية تحليلية مرخصة من وزارة الصحة، تعمل مع الأطفال، المراهقين والبالغين.
تعمل في تشخيص الإضطرابات النفسية من خلال اختبارات نفسية محددة و متعددة.
متخصصة في علاج متكامل لاضطراب التوحد واضطرابات النمو الأخرى.
مؤسسة و مديرة جمعية MISHA لتعليم و تأهيل الأشخاص من ذوي الإحتياجات الخاصة.
كاتبة في رصيف٢٢ و تحل ضيفة على كافة الإذاعات المرئية والمسموعة بهدف الإرشاد النفسي والإجتماعي.

09/08/2026

Some anger is not asking to be resolved.
It is guarding a grief that has not yet been mourned.
مش كل غضب بدّه ينحلّ…
أوقات بيكون عم يحرس حداد بعد ما عشناه.

05/08/2026

Sometimes healing doesn’t begin with an answer.
It begins with an experience:
being held in what once felt unbearable,
being understood without having to become someone else,
and slowly learning to hold yourself.
Healing happens in relationship.

يمكن أعمق شي بيصير بالعلاج النفسي،
مش إن حدا يعطيك أجوبة…
هو إنك تلاقي علاقة
تقدر تحط فيها شي من وجعك،
تفكّر فيه،
وتتعلّم شوي شوي
كيف تحمله بطريقة مختلفة.
أوقات، الشفاء بيبلّش من تجربة:
إنك ما تعود وحدك مع اللي جوّاتك.

03/08/2026

Seeking therapy isn’t a sign of weakness.
Sometimes, it’s the first step toward meeting the version of yourself you’ve been disconnected from.

يمكن أقوى قرار بالحياة…
مش إنك تتحمّل أكتر.
يمكن أقوى قرار…
إنك تسمح لحدا يرافقك
وأنت عم ترجع تلاقي حالك

31/07/2026

One of the greatest myths about psychotherapy is that therapists simply “switch off” when a session ends.

They don’t.

Psychoanalysis has long recognized that every therapeutic relationship affects both people within it. This is what we call countertransference: the emotional responses, thoughts, bodily sensations, and inner reactions that arise in the therapist during and because of the therapeutic relationship.

Countertransference is not a mistake. Nor is it about the therapist making the therapy about themselves.

When therapists engage in their own personal analysis and ongoing supervision, these reactions become valuable clinical information. They help them understand the patient’s inner world more deeply while remaining grounded in the patient’s needs.

A therapist may remember something you said, think of you when hearing a song, or silently hope that your surgery, exam, interview, or difficult conversation goes well.

This doesn’t make the relationship less professional.

It makes it profoundly human.

Professionalism is not the absence of feeling.
It is the capacity to contain one’s feelings without asking the patient to carry them.

The therapeutic relationship heals not because the therapist has no emotions, but because they know how to think about them and use them in the service of the person sitting across from them.

29/07/2026

Self-overcoming was never about becoming fearless.
It was never about silencing your wounds or forcing yourself to “move on.”
It is the lifelong practice of refusing to let yesterday’s pain become tomorrow’s identity.
Healing doesn’t ask you to become someone else.
It asks you to become more than what your suffering expected you to be.

،
ولا إنك تقمع جروحك
أو تجبر حالك “تتخطّى”.
كان يقصد إنك،
كل يوم،
ترفض تخلّي وجع مبارح
يصير هوية بكرا.
التعافي ما بيطلب منك
تصير شخص تاني.
بيطلب منك تصير
أكبر من النسخة
اللي خلقها وجعك.

27/07/2026

Freud described the Unheimlich, the uncanny, as the moment when something deeply familiar suddenly feels strange. Not because it is new, but because it carries traces of what was once known, then forgotten or repressed.
In therapy, we often discover that what feels inexplicably “off” is not irrational. It is an emotional memory. The unconscious recognizes patterns long before the conscious mind can explain them.
Sometimes we don’t remember the past.
We feel it.

فرويد وصف الـ Unheimlich أو “المألوف المُقلِق” إنّه الشعور اللي بيطلع لما شي مألوف فجأة بيصير غريب ومزعج. مش لأنّه جديد… بل لأنّه بيحرّك شي قديم جوّاتنا، شي انكبت أو اندفن باللاوعي.
يمكن نحنا ما منتذكّر الماضي دايمًا… بس الماضي بيتذكّرنا. وأوقات، بيرجع كإحساس، قبل ما يرجع كذكرى.
هيدا هو الـ Unheimlich: لما الماضي يلبس شكل الحاضر، ومنحسّ بشي ما منعرف نفسرو… لأن اللي عم يحكي، مش الوعي… بل اللاوعي.

24/07/2026

Healing doesn’t always begin with a diagnosis.
Sometimes it begins by understanding our suffering.

يمكن التعافي ما بيبلّش من اسم التشخيص…
يمكن بيبلّش من إنّو نفهم وجعنا.

22/07/2026

Addiction isn't always driven by desire. Sometimes, it's an attempt to escape pain we never learned how to face...
التعافي الحقيقي ما بيبلّش بالمنع... بيبلّش لما نفهم شو كان عم يدفعنا نهرب من الأساس.

16/07/2026

Sometimes the deepest wound isn’t what happened… it’s having to protect the person who hurt you.

أوقات أكبر وجع…
مش الأذى نفسه،
هو إنّك تضطر تحمي
الشخص اللي وجعك.

13/07/2026

Real connection begins where performance ends.
القرب الحقيقي بيبلّش… لما تبطّل تمثّل

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