Reflections, stories, articles and perspectives from across the Health Vision community, including our alumni, trainees, volunteers, project contributors, collaborators and wider network.
Beenish reflects on how her clinical training at IQ shaped her understanding of rapport, confidentiality and ethical practice, and how those lessons continue to inform her work in mental health advocacy.
Beenish Afzal · IQ Alumna · 2025
Beenish reflects on how her clinical training at IQ shaped her understanding of rapport, confidentiality and ethical practice, and how those lessons continue to inform her work in mental health advocacy.
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Ammarah Sakrani · Neurodevelopmental Training Alumna · February 2026
Ammarah reflects on her first neurodevelopmental clinical experience and what it taught her about rapport, flexibility, and responding to the child in front of her rather than the session she had planned.
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Tayyaba Rehman · Neurodevelopmental Disorders Intern · 2025
Tayyaba reflects on how her clinical training at IQ helped her understand non-verbal communication, supervised observation, and the patience required when working with clients with neurodevelopmental needs.
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Samar Arif · IQ Alumna 2026 · Community Based Project Lead
Samar reflects on leading the final Community Based Project at IQ, where a planned inpatient activity became a lesson in flexibility, patient-led participation, and person-centred care in practice.
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Laiba Qasim & Arwa Arif · IQ Volunteers · 2025–26
Laiba and Arwa reflect on three months of co-facilitating creative arts sessions at IQ, and what they learned about patience, participation, flexibility, and working within an inpatient setting.
Read Their Story →Mariam Hammad · Occupational Therapy at IQ
A bracelet-making session at IQ became an opportunity for creativity, concentration, connection, and peer support, while giving an occupational therapy student the chance to plan and facilitate a supervised group activity.
Read Story →Quratulain Tahir · Clinical Psychology in Mental Health Care · July 2025
Quratulain reflects on learning to move beyond information-gathering in clinical interactions, and how supervision helped her develop skills in validation, paraphrasing, thoughtful confrontation, and responding to different clients.
Read Reflection →Abiha Fatima · Neurodevelopmental Care · August 2025
Abiha reflects on learning to adapt during clinical interactions, use silence more thoughtfully, and remain composed when sessions did not unfold as expected.
Read Reflection →Ummul Huda · BS Psychology Student
From mood tracking and self-help exercises to round-the-clock availability, AI tools are becoming increasingly visible in mental health support. Ummul Huda considers where these tools may be useful, where their limits become important, and why human clinical care still matters.
Read Article →Huba Alvi · Clinical Psychology in Mental Health Care · July 2025
Huba reflects on moving from classroom learning into supervised clinical training, and how roleplay, documentation, feedback, and case-based learning helped her build confidence in applying psychological skills.
Read Reflection →Reflections from psychology students and graduates who have trained at IQ Institute of Neuropsychiatry.
Beenish Afzal · IQ Alumna · 2025
Beenish reflects on how her clinical training at IQ shaped her understanding of rapport, confidentiality and ethical practice, and how those lessons continue to inform her work in mental health advocacy.
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Ammarah Sakrani · Neurodevelopmental Training Alumna · February 2026
Ammarah reflects on her first neurodevelopmental clinical experience and what it taught her about rapport, flexibility, and responding to the child in front of her rather than the session she had planned.
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Laiba Qasim & Arwa Arif · IQ Volunteers · 2025–26
Laiba and Arwa reflect on three months of co-facilitating creative arts sessions at IQ, and what they learned about patience, participation, flexibility, and working within an inpatient setting.
Read Their Story →Some community projects begin with an idea developed by trainees, volunteers, staff, or collaborators. These reflections document what went into planning and carrying out that work, what participants learned, and what they would take forward from the experience.
Laiba Qasim & Arwa Arif · IQ Volunteers · 2025–26
Laiba and Arwa reflect on three months of co-facilitating creative arts sessions at IQ, and what they learned about patience, participation, flexibility, and working within an inpatient setting.
Read Their Story →Mariam Hammad · Occupational Therapy at IQ
A bracelet-making session at IQ became an opportunity for creativity, concentration, connection, and peer support, while giving an occupational therapy student the chance to plan and facilitate a supervised group activity.
Read Story →Former Clinical Practicum trainees, volunteers, project contributors, and collaborators may submit a reflection about their experience with Health Vision, IQ Institute of Neuropsychiatry, Dr. Aisha’s Health Vision Hospital, or one of our community initiatives.
Submissions may be edited for clarity and length before publication.
Important note
Stories and reflections published in this section represent the individual experiences and perspectives of their authors.
Submissions involving clinical settings must maintain patient confidentiality. Identifying patient information, photographs, diagnoses, case details, or other confidential clinical information will not be published.
Publication is subject to review and approval by Health Vision.
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