Dr. Fahimeh Mianji, is a registered psychologist (CPBC#2773) in British Columbia. She received her first doctoral degree in Psychology, and earned her second PhD in Social and Transcultural Psychiatry from McGill University. Currently, she is a last year candidate in the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. She believes in person-centred, culturally informed, and gender-affirming care and offers clinical services in English and Persian (Farsi). She is one of the consultants of DSM-5TR, the Cross-Cutting Culture Group.
Dr. Mianji works with culturally diverse communities, with a speciality in minoritized populations including ethnic, religious, cultural, linguistic and gender minorities. Her areas of expertise include complex and intergenerational trauma, anxiety and mood disorders, relational problems, personality disorders, identity disorders, adjustment problems, ADHD, as well as problems with acculturation and integration. She utilizes integrative short, mid, and long-term evidence-based psychotherapy with special focus on systemic, cognitive, dialectical, behavioural, experiential, attachment and psychodynamic approaches.
Through her clinical work, she has collaborated with different clinical and advocacy groups in RIVO (Intervention Network for Persons Affected by Organized Violence) and Pride Therapy Network of Montreal, when she was a clinical member of Ordre de Psychologues du Québec (OPQ). In addition to her clinical work, she has done extensive research and advocacy work on: women’s mental health, medicalization, global mental health, intergenerational trauma, cultural, political, and social conflicts, as well as domestic and systemic violence, among other areas of work that require cultural and anti-oppressive lens to understand and help affected individuals.
