As the CEO of Hayaa’ Network and Alternative.Minds, Ustazah Liyana Musfirah has guided both organisations through a thoughtful and necessary evolution from a women’s spiritual learning platform to a larger ecosystem of care, research, and practice.

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What began in Hayaa’ as a space for women to reconnect with faith has grown into a wider movement that recognises the need to integrate scholarship, therapy, and spirituality. Under her leadership, Hayaa’s emphasis on accessible, dignified, and context-aware Islamic learning laid the foundation for the birth of Alternative.Minds.

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Ustazah Liyana has been instrumental in shaping this transition. She recognised early that the realities faced by the community today require more than knowledge alone they require attuned care, ethical practice, and research-informed healing.

 

Her leap of faith into Alternative.Minds reflects her commitment to ensuring that Hayaa’s work remains scholarly, grounded, and relevant, while expanding into a research-based service that documents, studies, and strengthens the psychology–spirituality bridge.

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Through her vision, Alternative.Minds has become not only a continuation of Hayaa’s heart, but its natural progression — a place where learning, therapy, and community care come together to serve the needs of our time.

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A seasoned family systemic psychotherapist and clinical consultant with over 25 years of experience in therapy, supervision, and community-based work. Her practice brings together neuroscience, trauma-informed care, Islamic contemplative wisdom, and relational systems thinking — offering a model of healing that is grounded, ethical, and attentive to the fullness of the human condition.

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Clients and practitioners often describe Maimunah’s presence as steady and attuned. She listens with depth, holds complexity with ease, and attends gently yet precisely — creating a safe, reflective space where difficult truths can be explored without fear of judgement. Her thinking is sharp and insightful, yet always delivered with kindness, spaciousness, and humility.

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As the founding mind behind Alternative.Minds, Maimunah has been instrumental in shaping its direction, ethos, and identity. She carries a constant belief that communities deserve alternative realities — ones where care is relational, culturally anchored, spiritually alive, and informed by lived practice rather than imposed models. Her leadership reflects a commitment to building systems of care that learn from their context, honour cultural complexity, and remain deeply human.

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At Alternative.Minds, she leads the development of decolonial, spiritually grounded, and culturally attuned approaches to psychotherapy and practitioner learning across the region.

A family systemic psychotherapist and Senior Director at Alternative.Minds and Hayaa’ Network. With over two decades of experience, she has supported individuals, couples, and families through some of their most challenging emotional, relational, and spiritual seasons.

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People who meet Fajariah often describe her as grounding, compassionate, and deeply attuned. She brings a steady, thoughtful presence that helps clients feel seen, understood, and gently held — especially when life feels overwhelming or uncertain. Careful and reflective in her practice, she attends to people with patience, integrity, and a rare ability to hold complexity with kindness.

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Fajariah has been instrumental in the development of Alternative.Minds, shaping

its ethos with her commitment to relational healing, cultural wisdom, and the belief that care must be both ethical and human. Her work draws from lived experience, systemic inquiry, and an unwavering belief that healing happens through relationship.

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Whether you are navigating conflict, loss, anxiety, family challenges, or a quiet ache you cannot yet name, Fajariah offers a safe and nurturing space to slow down, make sense of your experiences, and find a way forward.

 

Her approach is gentle yet insightful, inviting clients to rediscover clarity, connection, and the possibility of change — one conversation at a time.