Michel is a dual-degree in Medicine (MBBCh) and Psychology (BA), with a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology (MA) from The American University in Cairo. He is a mental health practitioner, and a university lecturer in Psychology. The medical and psychological background enforced a wholistic perspective of mental health issues, which is not skewed to either fully medical or extremely non-medical approaches.

Michel’s mental health practice spanned over individual and communal settings. Seeing individual clients, he’s dealt with attachment issues, family conflicts, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, crisis management, abuse, and trauma. He’s been trained in applying cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and humanistic-existential psychotherapy.

Furthermore, he has also worked with local NGOs for capacity building, training, and providing psychological support to service providers going through stress, and burnout

Working with multiple communities, such as refugees, service providers, university students, staff, foreigners, local NGOs, etc. has enforced a multi-cultural lens that is understanding, relevant, and context-sensitive. Even his master’s thesis was done on how cultural and religious values relate to mental health of the Arab population.