About Dr. Salama
Personal Story
Dr. Salama was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. Shortly after the Suez Canal War, she and her family became political refugees in Paris, France. Two years later, they migrated to the United States.
In her free time, Dr. Salama has a passion for traveling and has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Central and South America, Asia, Australia, and the Middle- East. She has a love of languages, is fluent in French and Italian, and has a conversational understanding of Spanish, Japanese, Hebrew and Arabic.
Medical Background
Dr. Sheila Salama, MD received her medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical School in New York City, and then completed her Internship, Residency in Psychiatry as well as Fellowship in Child Psychiatry at Kings County Hospital. She is also a certified Dream Builder Coach and Life Mastery Consultant by the Brave Thinking Institute.
Since the early 1990’s Dr. Salama has acquired several certifications in non-pharmacological modalities. These facilitate the healing from acute and chronic traumatic events, as well as many other disorders. She has worked extensively with veterans coping with war trauma, moral injury, and survivors of early childhood abuse.
Dr. Salama is also a strong advocate for human rights and participated in the United Nations meetings advocating for the Yezidi victims of genocide. She is currently on the clinical advisory board of Free Yezidi Foundation, and is a consultant to the psychologists that treat the Yezidi population in a displaced camp in Iraq.