Resources
Listen or Watch
Links to our Youtube channel or any other emotional health audio and video content.
A Positive Approach to Reducing Screen Time
Ava discussed all things parenting around the screen and raising children in empowering, developmentally appropriate ways with Dr. Meghan Owenz
Interview: Françoise Bourzat
Françoise Bourzat, author of the best selling book Consciousness Medicine: An enlightening discussion on women's mental health and a guided meditation
Positive Energy Meditation
Ava guides you through a grounding 10-minute journey so you can reconnect with earth, receive positive energy and release anything that doesn’t serve you.
Meditation: Four Elements
Ava guides you through a brief 4-minute journey that helps reconnect you to the 4 elements of nature. Earth, water, air and fire.
Exercise: Pendulating Practice
Ava guides you through a somatic experiencing exercise called pendulating, developed by Pat Ogden and Peter Levine.
Meditation: Four Elements (Longer Version)
This is a slight variation from the 4 elements meditation. Here, Ava guides you through an 8-minute journey connecting you to the elements of nature within you.
Light Stream Meditation
Ava guides you through a journey that helps you receive the healing qualities of an unlimited stream of healing light.
Why Aurelia
Aurelia Psychology is a mental health blog and online resource platform created by psychologists Matleena and Ava to help guide you towards better 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.

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