Nsimire Aimee Bisimwa

Systemic and family psychotherapist

Nsimire Aimee Bisimwa is a highly specialist systemic and family psychotherapist and supervisor. She leads on refugee work in the Tavistock Family Mental Team. She offers systemic psychotherapy treatment, supervision and systemic consultations for a wide range of highly complex emotional and psychological problems as well as trauma and complex trauma.

Nsimire is also a Fellow of the High Education Academy and is involved in teaching in the Directorate of Education and Training at The Tavistock and Portman, where she lectures on various courses and leads the Master’s degree in Refugee care (M35), delivered in partnership with The University of Essex. She also is a visiting lecturer at University College London.

Nsimire has more than 25 years of experience working with people who have experienced trauma, refugees and involuntarily displaced people, including working in refugee camps as a Medical Doctor.

Her work is 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.

Nsimire has conducted research on the conceptualisation of mental health in refugee communities, and 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.