Arabic-Speaking & Culturally Competent Mental Health Care in Florida

Finding a psychiatric provider who speaks your language and understands your family is hard. Dr. Amira El Kholy, DNP, PMHNP-BC is a native Arabic speaker and a Muslim-American clinician providing telehealth psychiatric care across Florida — in Arabic or English, whichever you're most comfortable in.

Care in Arabic, without translating yourself

Describing anxiety, grief, or intrusive thoughts in a second language is exhausting, and nuance gets lost exactly where it matters most. With Dr. El Kholy you can speak in Arabic and be understood the first time — no interpreter, no flattening what you mean into simpler words.

Care that understands faith and family

Culture shapes how mental health is understood: whether it's discussed at all, what a diagnosis is assumed to say about you, and how a family responds when someone seeks help. Many patients arrive carrying real hesitation — their own, or their family's. That hesitation is treated as something to work with, not something to argue away.

Faith-sensitive care is available for patients who want it, including attention to religious practice, fasting, and family obligations when building a treatment plan. It's never imposed on patients who would rather keep faith out of the conversation.

Who this is for

• Arabic-speaking adults and teens anywhere in Florida who want care in their own language
• Muslim-American patients looking for a clinician who won't need the context explained
• Immigrant and first-generation patients navigating expectations between two cultures
• Teens whose struggles at home are tangled up with their upbringing
• Anyone whose family treats seeking mental health care as something to hide

What treatment looks like

The clinical approach is the same one the rest of the practice is built on: practical behavioral coaching paired with careful medication management, for anxiety, depression, ADHD, and related conditions. Genetic testing can help identify which medication is likely to suit you before spending months on trial and error. Appointments are secure video visits, with evening times available on most weekdays.