Dr. Myrna Chawbah

Dr Myrna Chawbah is a skilled Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the Jumeirah branch of Medcare Medical Centre. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Psychology from Balamand University in Lebanon. Subsequently, she acquired a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis from the prestigious Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France. She is affiliated with Forum Du Champ Lacanien Du Liban (FCLL) and has been their President in the past. She is also affiliated with Internationale des Forums (IF) and a member of the Psychotherapy Committee of the Lebanese Order of Psychologists.

Dr. Chawbah has spent more than a decade in private practice, as a Clinical Psychologist. She commenced her career, working in the Psychological Emergency Unit for Syrian Refugees at USAID and then with the Watan Organization for Syrian Refugees. Here, she learnt the importance of nurturing and developing support for children through psychological and social means. She briefly worked for the Belgian Lebanese Infertility Center (CBLI) while teaching all along, as a Doctor of Psychology (assistant professor) at the Lebanese University and the Antonine University. She later moved to the UAE, to join Thrive Wellbeing Center by Dr. Sarah Rasmi in Dubai.

Dr. Chawbah’s area of expertise covers depression, stress, anxiety and phobia, psychosomatic symptoms, health concerns, family and couple dynamics, couples therapy, separation and divorce. She also provides infertility counselling, giving psychological support during IVF, pregnancy and post-partum challenges like perinatal loss and attachment difficulties. She has successfully managed cases of conduct and behavioural disorders whose origins are traumatic as well as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).          

She speaks Arabic and French fluently.