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What our Community has to say about us
I worked with a therapist from Beit Insan for almost a year, and I can’t but say she is one of the most caring, compassionate, and professional therapists I’ve ever met.
Through our sessions, I learned so much about myself and was given the necessary tools to become a better person. Therapy helped me control my anger and negativity, especially living in Lebanon and dealing with its daily problems. I would’ve been in a completely different place had it not been for therapy.
They have my gratitude as well for respecting the pace I choose to progress with my self-healing. They are mature, patient and empathic listeners at emotional and spiritual levels.
When I wanted to go into therapy, I was terrified for many reasons ranging from monetary to the actual process failing me. I left myself for too long without help due to that.
It was by chance that I found my therapist, and I was so lucky that I did. I am able to delve into whatever I find myself wanting to delve into, to whatever degree I want to do that. My fear subsided little by little (and still hasn’t completely disappeared by any means), but the level of her professionalism while maintaining a human connection is amazing.
When we go through tough times, we don’t need to be medicated or told about some ideal way that is supposed to help us. What we need first and foremost is understanding, and that’s what I found. In this space, I am valid, my emotions are valid, and my thoughts are valid. I’m not just another case looked at by a person rushing to deal with their next patient, I am not put under a microscope with every word dissected in order to reach some diagnosis, but I’m allowed to exist in multitudes.
I just wanted to share some good news with you, I have been accepted to multiple medical schools. I don't know which one yet, results come out on Thursday, but the difficult part is over. I wanted to thank Beit Insan once again for healing me during the time I needed it.
أثق بها وأثق بقدرتها على مساعدتي بالوصول إلى بر الأمان والرجوع إلى طبيعتي وهي قادرة على الحوار الفعال وتساعدني بالتعبير عن نفسي بشكل أسهل ولقد شعرت بتغيير في حياتي وتحسن بوضعي وتعززت ثقتي بنفسي من أول جلستين
They provide not only a safe space but a warm and welcoming one. Therapy, in essence, seeks to establish a safe space but in my experience with most other practitioners, this simply means a judgement-free zone.
Beit Insan adds to that by removing the focus from pathologization and its inherent stigma, shame, and pressure to conform to "normal" standards and eradicate behavioral differences or coping mechanisms.
Having had therapy across several different modalities and interviewed at least 10 therapists in Lebanon in leading hospitals as well as various alternative and independent practitioners, I think the biggest and best difference in their approach is the lack of power play and hierarchy. Gatekeeping in all healing circles is a very unfortunate reality.
I've recommended Beit Insan to plenty of people and they've all found it to be a life-changing experience. I have been going to therapy there for over three years and it has changed my life.
I’d kind of given up on psychology and therapy before starting therapy at Beit Insan. I’d tried to go to four different therapists since I turned 13, and I really did not like any of my experiences with them. One of them really hurt me, two just really bothered me, and one just wasn’t the right fit for me. I really tried with them, but after four tries it was just very difficult to put myself in a position where I’m vulnerable enough to open up to a new therapist and give them the sort of power that comes with knowing someone intimately. This summer I really made a decision to try to work on myself for the last time and stop repressing everything that was bothering me and keeping me from living a normal life, and I ended up with my therapist at Beit Insan.
I will always remember how a practitioner from Beit Insan contacted me one night before bed simply to check on me after I had been through a really bad experience. She always goes the extra mile for her patients and that always makes me feel safe sharing my stories with her.
I really can’t imagine what my life would look like without Beit Insan this past year- a year full of uncertainty, trauma, and pain in the country: revolution, economic collapse, pandemic, and then literal urban collapse. The therapy I’ve found at Beit Insan is not like any other place I’ve sought mental health support.
The humanistic approach is so empowering - I always feel heard and held, and deeply supported in the changes I’m making. For me, Beit Insan is a place that fosters community because she cares not just about her clients and the fabric and well-being of the community in Beirut as a whole. As a queer person that has been nurtured by the space, it is also a place that welcomes and celebrates diversity - real diversity in many forms.
My journey to wellness started with suicidal thoughts and attempt. To save myself, I needed a helping hand and this was what Beit Insan offered me.