Dr Farkhondeh Farsimadan is a chartered counselling psychologist. She obtained her Doctorate in Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Psychology from the University of Surrey.

Currently she works in a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit with clients with severe and enduring mental health problems.

She has a great deal of experience working with ethnic minority clients in the UK. Her research interests include the process and outcome of therapy in ethnically similar and dissimilar therapeutic dyads, and the experiences of ethnic minority clients in therapy.