“To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling”
– bell hooks, all about love

Sanah Ahsan is an award-winning poet, writer, clinical psychologist and educator. Sanah works in the cracks, revering our messy emotional landscapes, and the wild edges of falling apart. Their psychological practice is rooted in liberation and community psychology, drawing on embodiment, therapeutics and poetics as life-affirming practices, to support racialised and marginalised people. Their published research is on the deconstruction of whiteness within UK clinical psychology.

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Sanah's work centers compassion and embracing each other's madness; they have written regularly for The Guardian and presented a Channel 4 documentary on the over-medicalisation of people’s distress. Some of Sanah's media work includes delivering a TEDX talk and giving a keynote for Google and ADCOLOUR in LA. Sanah is the lead psychologist at several healing justice-led organisations, such as Art Against Knives and Beyond Equality. Sanah is working on a non-fiction book about the politics of distress, and society’s relationship with unruly emotions. Sanah’s debut poetry collection "I cannot be good until You say it" is forthcoming with Bloomsbury in March 2024.