Nsimire Aimee Bisimwa

Highly Specialist Systemic & Family Psychotherapist

Nsimire Aimee Bisimwa is a Highly Specialist Systemic & Family Psychotherapist working at the Tavistock Centre in a CAMHS team. She is a UKCP registered Systemic Psychotherapist and an AFT accredited systemic supervisor and trainer. She is a fully qualified Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) practitioner and is particularly responsive to symptoms of trauma, multiple trauma and complex trauma in her work with people.
She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a course lead at the Tavistock centre. Nsimire lectures on various psychotherapy courses and offers specialist trainings extensively.
As an experienced clinician, she offers systemic psychotherapy treatment, supervision and systemic consultations for a wide range of highly complex emotional and psychological problems including neurodevelopment conditions as well as trauma and complex trauma. She works with children, adolescent, young adults, family and couple issues.
She has more than 25 years of experience working with refugees and involuntarily displaced people, including working in refugee camps as a medical doctor. She leads on refugee work in the Tavistock Family Mental Team and chairs a Tavistock monthly Refugee Hub.
Her work is mainly informed by evidence-based practices and research from systemic psychotherapy, narrative therapy, social constructionism models, trauma informed approaches, liberation psychology, community approaches, culturally sensitive and anti-oppressive practices. She believes that issues of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are crucial to good mental health and overall wellbeing.
She has co-authored two published papers in the field of working with refugees, and a paper on the Impact of intergenerational racism upon global majority family systems. She has also conducted research on the conceptualisation of mental health in refugee communities (unpublished)