What We Do

We ensure refugees and displaced people have access to the mental health and community support they need to heal, rebuild their lives and strengthen community resilience.

Our work goes beyond immediate support. We focus on healing, resilience, and long-term solutions.

How we work

We Prioritise Mental Health

Mental health support is often overlooked in refugee response, yet displacement is deeply traumatic. We ensure refugees have access to the care they need to grieve, heal and rebuild their lives.

We Create Islands of Safety

Beyond survival, inner safety, grief care, healing and hope-building are key to long term wellbeing and breaking cycles of trauma. We provide safe spaces where displaced communities can connect, restore, and move forward.

We Support Refugee Leadership

Founded by a former refugee, and with past and present colleagues with lived experience of conflict and displacement across are team and board, Amna is committed to refugee leadership and centering lived experience. We prioritise partnerships with organizations led and delivered by those with lived experience, who are experts of their context, to create truly impactful support.

We Incorporate Creative Healing Tools

We use creative tools such as art, movement, storytelling and cultural practices to facilitate safe, emotional expression, healing and connection.

We Promote Collective Healing

Conflict and displacement are both collective and individual experiences. Amna creates spaces where communities heal together, while supporting each person to process their experiences on their own terms.

We Scale for Greater Impact

Our goal is to reach five million refugees in the next five years. By building a therapeutic workforce , we are building a global network of healing.

We Advocate for Change

We are working to make community mental health care a core part of refugee response worldwide – because every person forced to flee deserves the chance to heal.

Building a Global Movement of Healing

Our work is driven by four key pillars, which together create lasting, systemic change for displaced communities:
Community Partnerships
We invest in local organisations - first responders with deep knowledge of  and access to their communities - by providing two years of funding and capacity-building support. Through these partnerships, we are building a sustainable, locally led system of psychosocial care across MENA, South Asia and Europe.

Current Partners: Lebanon, Jordan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and across Europe.
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Emergency Responses
In times of crisis, mental health support is often overlooked. Amna provides accessible, adaptable training to frontliners responding to acute crises. We resource local communities affected by displacement, conflict and natural disaster with skills to navigate loss, grief, uncertainty and trauma. Our responses have supported people experiencing earthquakes, floods, and violent conflicts, ensuring they receive urgent wellbeing care when they need it most.

Recent Responses: Palestine, Lebanon Turkey, Syria, Morocco and Libya.
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Strengthening Systems of Care
Environments and encounters can alleviate or exacerbate trauma. Toxic stress can be reinforced through harmful institutional practices. Amna works with institutions across health, education and legal systems that offer services to displaced communities and trains them to offer trauma-informed care.
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Global Healing Network
To sustain a global therapeutic workforce and drive a network of global partners committed to high quality, community led therapeutic care, Amna unites our global partners including community organisations, mental health practitioners, researchers and funders to continue providing and advocating for identity and trauma-informed psychosocial care for refugees worldwide. Through collaboration, we drive systemic, transformative change.
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What People Say about us

Amna’s work in supporting refugees in Jordan and Lebanon is reshaping the ways in which assistance is offered to these vulnerable communities. It highlights the importance of trauma- and identity-informed programming and creating safe spaces for refugees to share their experiences.-External Evaluators, University of Virginia
Amna has a unique footprint in serving refugee communities in Greece, with a deep understanding of community needs. It has been able to create a series of trauma informed programmes for young children, youth, women, men and communities.-External Evaluators, Harvard University

Everyone deserves to a chance to heal.

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