Episode 32 - Rasheed Latif - Licensed Psychotherapist & Coach

This week my esteemed guest is Latif Rasheed, a trained therapist who runs Western Sunrise Integrative Energy Collaborative in Silver Spring, Maryland.

A charming person who you would not guess to be an amazing conscious parent but grandfather as well. And most of all, a light of hope for his patients. A quote on his website says, "Is your life just good enough? Or does your life have enough of what's good? Above all the various strategies I may find the need to employ on behalf of my client, the most impactful of all of these is that of using the compassionate connection we build with each other as being a powerful catalyst to generate the flow of new possibility." -Latif Rasheed

Latif Rasheed has been working is a licensed Psychotherapist who has been working in the field of Mental Health for the past 23 years, and in the area of Emergency Mental Health for nearly 17 years most recently. He attended graduate school at the University of the District of Columbia obtaining a Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling in 1995.

Latif has been trained and certified in a number of therapeutic modalities, including but not limited to: EMDR, TFT-dx, Medical Qi-Gong, VKD, TIR, and Educational Kinesiology (Brain Gym). Latif was also certified as a Work-place Stress Prevention Facilitator by Yale University's School of Medicine in Sept. 2006 and was later certified as a mediator in the same year by a Bethesda Maryland based community organization (Mediation Matters).

For 14 years, Latif worked as a Crisis Interventionist for a grant funded agency, providing emergency mental health services in both Prince George's County and Anne Arundel County. Presently, he is the Program Coordinator and psychotherapist for the Employee Assistance Program for a local County Fire & EMS Department. He provides, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, and short-term therapy to all department personnel and sees private clients many of whom are Muslim in his private practice.

For more details, please visit his website : http://wesiec.com/