Nawal Muradwij, PhD

Dr. Nawal Muradwij is a New York State Licensed Clinical Psychologist and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine. She works in the Student Trainee Mental Health Program at Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Muradwij has worked with individuals across the lifespan and specializes in the treatment of trauma-related disorders. She utilizes an approach that integrates psychodynamic, relational and skills-based treatments (e.g., Dialectical Behavioral Therapy). She treats substance use disorders through a harm-reduction model (i.e., the transtheoretical model for change). 

Dr. Muradwij completed her undergraduate degree at the American University of Beirut with a major in Psychology and a minor in Creative Writing. She then earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University before earning her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center/John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital where she worked with youth and their families in an inpatient, outpatient, and therapeutic school setting at the Child & Family Institute and the Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service (CARES). Dr. Muradwij then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service (CARES) at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital where she provided individual, group, milieu, and family therapy services to high school students presenting with mood, anxiety, and/or substance use disorders.