HAUWA BELLO

MSc, C-PD, CGT, C-ASCDS 

PSYCHOTHERAPIST/ LIFE COACH/ CLINICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGIST/ ENTREPRENEUR

Popularly known as Mumtaz, Hauwa Bello acquired certifications to apply skills she has learned to improve individual and organisational physical and mental health. She holds a BSc in Human Anatomy from the prestigious University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, and Masters in Health Psychology from Walden University. Minnesota USA. She is currently a PhD student in the same university she earned her master's degree from and doing a second masters degree in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests are stigma related to mental health, adverse childhood experiences and the concept of shame in the African community. 

She is a mental health advocate, a Gottman couples therapist, a certified Neuro-Linguistic Master Practitioner (NLP), a Positive Psychologist,  an Ericksonian Hypnotherapy Expert, a Results Coach, a Life Coach, an Emotional Intelligence Coach, a Play Therapist, an Art Therapist, a Mindfulness practitioner, an Aromatherapist, a Color Therapist, a Trainer per Excellence, a Psychotherapist etc. She has attended and featured in numerous training, seminars, workshops, etc., on Education, Mental health, and Entrepreneurship. 

She is a faculty member of Sam Obafemi Behavioral Change Academy (SOBCA) and is the CEO of Mumtaz's mind and wellness studio and Mumtaz International School. She uses an individualised blend of psychotherapy such as psychodynamic / psychoanalysis therapy, humanistic therapy, behavioural and cognitive therapy to help people with mood disorders such as depression and anxiety, personality disorders, trauma, phobias, addictions, and other mental health disorders.  She is conversant with and trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), Positive Psychology, Emotionally Focussed Family Therapy (EFFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Gottman method, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) etc.  She especially loves to help couples thrive and ailing family recover and flourish. For couples therapy, she uses the research-backed approach to relationships of the Gottmans. This method is the most research, tested and trusted method to healing relationship troubles and creating long-lasting loving relationships. 

She does individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, among others. She works with all age groups. She is passionate about helping people move from where they are to where they want to be. Hauwa Bello is a member of the (APA) - American Psychological Association and (NPA) - Nigeria Psychological Association. She is a Speaker, Writer, and advocate of women's rights. She is happily married and blessed with children.

ZULIAKHA BELLO

EDUCATIONAL GUIDIANCE COUNSELOR

Zulaikha Bello is a Guidance Counselor with a specialty in Art and Color therapy and a certified listener on 7Cups (a website which provides online therapy and free support to people experiencing emotional distress by connecting them with trained listeners. The listener, trained in active listening, interacts with the person seeking help.

She is also an education for all activists, a girl child and woman right advocate, and a member of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Network Hub Abuja. Her focus is on understanding and promoting human rights, she is a lover of children and very interested in helping them achieve their dreams, she is interested in both Art therapy and Chromotherapy and she has made it her main focus, she is also a yoga practitioner and a natural beauty product advocate.