Salma Parveen

Salma Parveen is a Senior Clinical Psychologist with more than 21 years of practice in Bangladesh, and a faculty member of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Dhaka. She is one of the most experienced psychologists at Chum Wellness for couples and families, and for depression, anxiety and OCD.

She holds a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, and an MS and an M.Phil in Clinical Psychology, all from the University of Dhaka, and is a member of the Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Society (BCPS, G03003).

Couple and marriage counselling. Salma works with couples on constant arguments, communication that has broken down, lost trust, an affair, pressure from in-laws and extended family, and hard decisions about the future of the marriage. She uses Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) alongside CBT, so both partners understand the pattern they are stuck in and learn to respond to each other differently.

Family therapy. She helps families through conflict between parents and children, in-law and joint-family tension, separation and divorce, and big changes such as illness or loss. Sessions can include the whole family or a few members at a time.

Depression, anxiety, OCD and trauma. Much of her career has been in trauma care. She worked as a clinical psychologist with the psychosocial unit of the Acid Survivors Foundation from 2005, supporting survivors of violence through long-term therapy and assessment. She is a panel psychologist with PRIO at CREA Society and trains other professionals in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). She also works with substance use and relapse prevention, and with behaviour and emotional problems in children and teenagers, using CBT, trauma-informed therapy and mindfulness.

Sessions are in Bangla or English, in person in Moghbazar, Dhaka, by appointment, or online from anywhere in Bangladesh or abroad. Individual sessions are ৳5,500, online or in person. Couple and family sessions are ৳7,500 for 1.5 hours.