Monique is the Managing Director and Principal Psychologist of Nasihah Consulting Group based in Essendon, Melbourne. She has delivered psychological services to Muslim clients for the past 28 years and delivered personal development and wellbeing programs to over 50 Muslim organisations across Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Turkey.

Monique is a certified Cultural Intelligence (CQ) Advisor (USA) and has trained staff from over 400 organisations in cultural safety. For 6 years she was the Lead Lecturer for ‘Multicultural Counselling’ and ‘Culture and Psychology’ at the Australian Catholic University and is a regular guest lecturer at other universities. She is the Author of the book Without You: rising above the impact of an abusive relationship.

Monique delivered ‘Culture eats individuality for breakfast’ at TEDx Docklands (2019) and is a commentator on the psychological impact of exclusion, racist bullying and the COVID pandemic for ABC news. She has been seen on Amazon Prime docuseries ‘Unheard’, ABC News and Lateline, featured in The Australian, The Age, The Herald-Sun, ABC and 3AW radio.

She is also the Founder of the Centre for Muslim Wellbeing (CMW).