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About Us

Your Guide To Emotional Health

Our Philosophy

Welcome to Aurelia Psychology: A platform outside of psychotherapy, by psychologists, to help guide you towards better emotional health. 

Perhaps, you have never done any psychotherapy, but you would like some guidance and support. Or, you need boosters in between your psychotherapy sessions. Or, you just want to learn more about yourself and your relationships.

Here, you can find the support you may need, to work through your most important relationships. 

Yes, we are talking about your relationship: 

  1. With yourself; 
  2. In your love life; 
  3. As a parent; 
  4. With your work.

 

We believe that optimal emotional health and well-being is not only necessary but also achievable. We also believe that your emotional health reflects in how you relate to yourself, to others, and to your work. So, we are here to guide your most important relationships.

If you like to reflect on the way you’re living and you are open to change, then you have come to the right place!

About us

We are human beings first and psychologists second. We are working mothers living a life not that different from yours. 

We believe in your innate human need for connection, your inner wisdom and your natural ability for transformation. We are here to support you to connect with yourself and others more consciously, to access your inner wisdom, and to live a more fulfilling life.

We draw from our collective knowledge of all the years of work with our clients, our own inner work, and psychological research. We create services and content to provide you with readings, exercises, workshops, videos, and more to guide you in the areas of your life that you want to improve. 

We will continue to work hard to share Aurelia Psychology with you. Take what you find useful here and leave what’s not. Please, be in touch with us to tell us what you find transformational. Also, don’t hesitate to get in touch with questions. We would love to hear from you! 

Dr. Ava Ghasemi Holdich

Clinical Psychologist

Ava is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and EMDR therapist in Dubai, UAE where she has been living since 2014. Ava has a special interest in trauma and works with adults with a range of psychological difficulties and emotional health challenges.

Matleena Vanhanen

Counselling Psychologist

Matleena is a licensed Counselling Psychologist with over 20 years experience working in Europe and the Middle East. She has a practice of couples and individual therapy at the MapleTree Center in Dubai.

Areas of Emotional Health

Dr. Ava Ghasemi Holdich

Clinical Psychologist

Ava is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and EMDR therapist in Dubai, UAE where she has been living since 2014. Ava has a special interest in trauma and works with adults with a range of psychological difficulties and emotional health challenges.

Ava is a writer and passionate advocate for raising mental health awareness. Over the years, Ava has provided numerous educational talks on mental health for many organizations, namely Kempinski Hotel, Masdar, the Canadian Business Council, Cigna Insurance Middle East, and the Middle Eastern Psychological Association (MEPA). She has also collaborated both locally with companies such as KCAL and internationally with blogs such as Extra Lucky Moms. She has been interviewed on the Dubai Eye on Afternoons with Helen Farmer and has been a contributor to Gulf News.

Ava is a mom of two and she enjoys bike riding, painting, decluttering and listening to podcasts in her free time.

Matleena Vanhanen

Counselling Psychologist

Matleena has worked both as a Clinical Psychologist and School Psychologist in Finland. She worked with children, adults and older adults, couples and families in kindergartens, schools and at health centres. After moving to the UK, Matleena worked both in private practice and as a Specialist Counselling Psychologist for the National Health Service (NHS).

In 2006 Matleena moved to Cyprus where she worked in private practice and for an online counselling and coaching service provider.

Matleena has been in Dubai since 2011. She now works with adolescents, adults and couples as well as offers supervision for other clinicians. She is both a Certified Gottman Therapist and a Certified Discernment Counsellor. Matleena teaches workshops and gives talks about well-being and mental health to corporations and organisations.

Matleena holds an MA in Psychology from Jyväskylä University, Finland and a MA in Counselling Psychology and Post-MA in Existential Counselling Psychology from City University, UK.

Matleena is a member of the Finnish Psychological Association and the British Psychological Society. She is licensed by the National Authority of Medicolegal Affairs in Finland and the Community Development Authority (CDA) in Dubai.

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