My research involves what you do when you can't go back, but you must stay alive--as a trauma survivor. I treat complex post traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) survivors with respect, love, and dignity and work to develop alternative therapies that bypass the western biomedical model of psychiatry. 

To do that, I take a Mad Studies/Decolonizing perspective to how we understand CPTSD using radical, psychospiritual approaches to healing that allow for full access to the bodymindspirits of trauma survivors. I develop secular and spiritual approaches to understanding trauma, although primarily I focus on using Islamic Psychology and Sufism to help Muslim trauma survivors on the Muslim periphery in the Global South as part of a larger project to contribute to an activist literature on Critical Muslim Geographies.