Marlene Bastawros

 holder of M.B.B.CH faculty of Medicine Cairo University 

- holder of a Master degree in psychiatry and neurology Kasr El Aini Cairo University .

as well as Clinical Psychiatry diploma Abbasia mental hospital 

certified Psychiatrist and holder of a Master degree in psychiatry and neurology; as well as a clinical psychiatry diploma.


 Started my career at El Rakawy mental hospital followed by  El Abassia Mental and  Behman Psychiatric Hospital.


Founder of Towards functional families which provides multiple programmes to different family members with the aim to provide healthy parenting and 

marriage.



Starting 2009 till present running mother’s groups;  which facilitated the growth and development of a team of moms currently leading the training of different other moms.


•	Providing lectures and customized workshops for  different  organization and NGO as UNWOMEN ,UNFPA NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR WOMEN

Lecturing school teachers and parents in different french and english in Cairo.


Among my  main achievements: 

•	Launching her first parental program in 2011, inspired by the huge need she faced with mothers challenged with how to parent properly and best deal with the different phases of their children’s lives. The program was called “انا ام وعايزة اتعلم”, which in English means “I am a mom and I crave learning”. 

•	Launching another YouTube program called "أمومة سكول" ”, which in English means “Mothering school”: a set of episodes answering some of the mother questions and presenting few simple ideas in very little time. 

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Delivered parenting course all over egypt Cairo ,Alexandria ,Sohag Ismalia,Fayoom Menia ... and Dubai.


•	Currently leading a counseling school in Cairo at El Hayat organization: providing counseling training with the aim of preparing the attendees to become counselors themselves, course duration is for around 1.5 years. Together with 

Peer supervision to counsellors .




 

 

Since 2001 and till now, she has been working with children Teens and their parents in her private clinic through sessions .

•Dealing with moms  and  family as a whole having anger management problems, marital problems, divorced or widowed each having her own challenges. 

 

•	Working with moms through their own psychological baggage; the faulty parenting hey have been exposed to 


•	How to build their mother hood and how to control their anger 



•	Dealing with couples with marital conflicts or for premarital counselling. 


I do believe so much in change development, discovery and liberation of our inner child which makes a total difference in people lives .




I do follow a lot ,the humanistic school together with CBT as a way of recreating our own inner healthy empathic parent which in my experience lead to so much healing and development in the people I  worked with .