Consultant Psychiatrist · Trauma Specialist · Dubai
Dr Millia offers specialist psychiatric care alongside advanced trauma-focused psychotherapies. She offers trauma-focused psychotherapies for adults, psychiatric assessment, medication management, assessment for ADHD, and holistic care tailored to each person’s needs.
An Individualised Approach
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Mental health difficulties do not always fit neatly into a single diagnosis. Symptoms may be influenced by biological factors, life experiences, relationships, trauma and the ways a person has learned to cope.
Dr Millia combines psychiatric assessment with psychotherapy to understand the wider picture. Depending on your individual needs, treatment may involve psychotherapy, medication or a combination of both.
The work will be delivered collaboratively, by providing comprehensive knowledge of what treatment and therapy entails, exerting patient-led choices, client-centered therapies and meeting where one is in their healing journey.
Specialist Care for Complex PTSD and Dissociation in Dubai
Dr Millia Begum has 25 years of expertise in working with PTSD, CPTSD and Dissociation.
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Who Is This Service For?
People seek help for many reasons. You may recognize some of your own experiences in the examples below. An assessment can help clarify your difficulties and treatment options available to you.
You feel caught in recurring emotional or relationship patterns, even when you understand them or have worked on them in therapy.
Explore Complex Trauma →Emotional Dysregulation
You continue to experience mood swings, anxiety, low mood or emotional overwhelm that affects your daily life, whether or not you have tried treatment before.
Trauma & Emotional Symptoms →Trauma & Dissociation
You experience trauma-related symptoms which may include numbness, feeling shutdown or feeling disconnected from yourself or your surroundings.
Learn About Dissociation →Chronic Physical Symptoms
You live with chronic pain or physical symptoms where stress or trauma may be contributing.
Discuss Your Symptoms →ADHD Assessment
You would like a comprehensive ADHD assessment that considers your developmental history, current difficulties and other possible explanations, including anxiety, or trauma-related symptoms.
Adult ADHD Assessment →Medication or Therapy
If you are unsure whether medication, psychotherapy or a combination of both may help. A psychiatric assessment can clarify the options and help you make an informed choice.
Arrange an Assessment →How Do Trauma Therapies Differ?
Trauma therapies differ in where they focus attention and how they work with distressing experiences. Some place greater emphasis on memories, thoughts and emotions; others begin with bodily sensations or automatic physiological responses. Many involve both.
The choice of therapy depends on your individual needs, preferences and the available evidence for treating your condition.
EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) focuses on distressing memories and their effects in the present. It uses a structured approach to processing these memories alongside bilateral stimulation, often guided side-to-side eye movements.
Learn more about EMDR →Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps people understand and relate compassionately to different parts of themselves, including protective parts and parts carrying emotional pain or vulnerability.
Therapy explores these parts’ fears, needs and experiences, supporting a more trusting relationship between the Self and parts that may have been kept outside conscious awareness.
Learn more about IFS →Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) focuses on early physiological responses to threat, particularly the orienting tension and shock that may arise before emotional and defensive responses become fully conscious.
By carefully attending to this early sequence, DBR aims to support the processing of traumatic experiences without requiring prolonged focus on the detailed narrative of the event.
Learn more about DBR →Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy (MABT)
Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy (MABT) focuses on developing interoceptive awareness: the ability to notice, access and sustain attention to internal bodily sensations.
Through guided awareness and, where appropriate, therapeutic client directed touch, MABT helps people explore how bodily sensations connect with emotions and personal understanding. Developing body awareness can help gain skills that can be used in healing from trauma and gaining agency over the body and mind.
Explore Trauma Therapies with Dr Millia
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
Dr Millia explains the DBR approach, including its focus on early bodily responses associated with traumatic experiences.
Watch the DBR Therapy Video →EMDR Therapy
Dr Millia explains how EMDR works with distressing memories and what the therapeutic process involves.
Watch the EMDR Therapy Video →Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Dr Millia introduces the IFS understanding of protective and vulnerable parts, and how therapy develops a more compassionate relationship with them.
Watch the IFS Therapy Video →Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Dr. Millia Begum?
Dr. Millia Begum is a British-trained Consultant Psychiatrist at First Psychiatry Clinic in Dubai, with over 25 years of clinical experience. She provides psychiatric assessment, medication management and psychotherapy, with a particular experience in trauma-related difficulties, and complex presentations.
What can Dr. Millia help with?
difficulties with childhood or attachment-related trauma. Dr. Millia works with adults experiencing PTSD, Complex PTSD, dissociation, ADHD, anxiety, depression, grief and attachment-related difficulties. Assessment considers your symptoms, history and circumstances to guide an individualized treatment plan.
How do I know if Dr. Millia may be the right psychiatrist for me?
It may be helpful to consider Dr Millia’s qualifications, areas of experience, treatment approach and whether you feel comfortable discussing difficult or sensitive concerns with them. An initial consultation gives you an opportunity to ask questions, discuss your goals and explore whether her approach fits your needs.
Can I see a psychiatrist who also provides psychotherapy?
Yes. Dr. Millia provides psychiatric assessment and medication management alongside psychotherapy, including EMDR, Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) and Internal Family Systems (IFS), and MABT where these approaches are appropriate. The treatment offered depends on your needs, preferences and the findings of your assessment.
Do you offer ADHD assessments?
Yes. Dr Millia provides adult ADHD assessments in Dubai that explore symptoms in childhood and adulthood, their impact on daily life and other possible explanations. The assessment may also consider whether trauma, anxiety, mood difficulties or other factors could be contributing to similar symptoms.
Do I need medication or therapy?
The most appropriate treatment depends on your difficulties, preferences and circumstances Some people benefit primarily from psychotherapy, while others may benefit from medication, therapy or a combination of both. Following assessment, Dr Millia will discuss the options with you and agree on a treatment plan together.
What trauma therapies does Dr. Millia use?
Dr. Millia uses EMDR, Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), alongside Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT). The approach is selected collaboratively, considering your needs, preferences and the evidence relevant for your difficulties.
Where is Dr. Millia based?
Dr. Millia consults at First Psychiatry Clinic, 975 Al Wasl Road, Umm Suqeim 2, Dubai. Appointments are available by prior booking.
About Dr. Millia
Dr. Millia Begum is a British-trained Consultant Psychiatrist and an expert trauma specialist with over 25 years of clinical experience in psychiatry and therapy.
She is an EMDRIA Certified Therapist™ and EMDRIA Approved Consultant™, an EMDR researcher, and a former board member of the EMDR Association UK. She is also an IFS™ Certified Therapist with advanced Level 3 IFS training and has undertaken advanced training in Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR).
Book a Mental Health Appointment
Arrange a confidential consultation with Dr Millia Begum at First Psychiatry Clinic in Dubai.
Villa 975, Municipality 363856
Al Manara, Umm Suqeim 2
Dubai, UAE
Office: +971 4 221 6000
Email: info@firstpsychiatryclinics.com