Intro

Jalal Hamdan is a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Specialist, holding a Master’s degree in Mental Health with a specialization in Psychotherapy. He has professional experience across the healthcare, humanitarian, and community sectors. He has worked with healthcare institutions, humanitarian organizations, and community-based programs, providing psychological assessments, counseling, psychotherapy, crisis interventions, and psychosocial support to individuals, families, and vulnerable groups.
His experience include working in hospitals, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Women’s Counseling Center, and juvenile justice programs, where he contributed to the delivery and development of mental health and psychosocial support services. He has worked within multidisciplinary teams, supervised programs and services, and implemented individual, group, and family interventions based on evidence-based practices.

He has completed specialized training in trauma-informed care, Psychological First Aid (PFA), the World Health Organization’s Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP), in addition to other advanced mental health training programs. He believes in providing psychological and humanitarian services that are grounded in respect for human dignity and focused on enhancing the quality of care.