About Trainer

Fateh Sohrabi is a clinical psychologist with a master’s degree in psychology and has an interest in health psychology. Fateh has worked as a student counsellor at various universities as well as a clinician with crisis intervention in severe and chronic mental health disorders in a psychiatric setting.

His research has involved evaluating the effect of MiCBT on depression, blood sugar levels, and treatment adherence in diabetic patients. During his master’s degree, he began using mindfulness and was initially trained in MBCT and later in MiCBT under the supervision of Dr. Bruno Cayoun. Since 2012, he has been using MiCBT and translated the main MiCBT resources into Persian, including the self-help book for clients and the Clinical Handbook of MiCBT for therapists, both of which have been published in Iran. He also translated and recorded all MiCBT audio instructions for mindfulness meditation in Persian.

Mr Sohrabi is currently doing research as part of his PhD in clinical psychology at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran. The research examines the differential efficacy of the desensitization model of MiCBT and the standard behavioral model on anxiety symptoms. His main interest is in evaluating the transdiagnostic methods and structures of psychotherapy comprised in MiCBT in different populations. He is co-director of the Persian Chapter of the MiCBT Institute and is currently undergoing his MiCBT trainer training under the supervision of Dr Cayoun.