Dr. Omar Reda is a board-certified psychiatrist, a Harvard-trained trauma expert, and an author. He lives with his wife and three daughters in Colorado.

Dr. Reda graduated from Benghazi Medical School in Libya, obtained a Masters certificate in global mental health from Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, and then finished a residency in psychiatry at the University of Tennessee in Memphis.

Dr. Reda is the founder and director of Healing Trauma Institute. He had served as the psychosocial advisor for a number of international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), as a UN and WHO trainer and as Libya’s deputy mental health lead during the 2011 war.

Among his publications are On the Shoulders of the Prophet, Generation of ISIS, Untangled, The Wounded Healer, Healing Possibilities, and Silence is Betrayal.

Dr. Reda had conducted countless hands-on training sessions in the USA and abroad on the topics of psychosocial relief and the use of play and art therapy with traumatized populations.

He is an expert and a sought-after public speaker on issues of psychological trauma, Muslim mental health, refugee mental health, and caring for the caregiver.