The Hummingbird Clinic DMCC

The Hummingbird Clinic DMCC Psychological services- adolescents/adults. Services are offered in French, English and Arabic.

✨No matter the stings or the noise around you, keep moving forward. Like a brave horse, stay true to your course and let...
11/01/2026

✨No matter the stings or the noise around you, keep moving forward. Like a brave horse, stay true to your course and let the distractions fall silent behind you. 🐎✨

This week for our "Neuro Insight" Series, Dr. Olivia Pounds shares her thoughts about memory concerns, mood, and cognit...
11/01/2026

This week for our "Neuro Insight" Series, Dr. Olivia Pounds shares her thoughts about memory concerns, mood, and cognitive health.

🧠 Many people worry about memory changes, especially as they age, but cognitive difficulties can have many causes.
🧠 While conditions like mild cognitive impairment and dementia can begin subtly, mood disorders such as depression, stress, sleep problems, hormonal changes, ADHD, or medical treatments can also affect attention and memory.
🧠 Importantly, mood changes can sometimes be an early sign of neurological change, so symptoms should never be dismissed.
🧠 A comprehensive neuropsychological assessment helps identify the underlying cause, establish a cognitive baseline, and guide early support, treatment, and strategies for resilience.

To schedule an appointment with Dr. Pounds, reach out to:

💌 drolivia@thehummingbirdclinic.com
☎️ + 971 4 566 5978
📍Al Thanyah Fifth, Mazaya Business Avenue AA1, Unit
1707, Dubai - UAE

✨As we step into the new year, we wish you a journey marked by health, emotional wellbeing, and inner peace. May it be a...
31/12/2025

✨As we step into the new year, we wish you a journey marked by health, emotional wellbeing, and inner peace. May it be a year of meaningful growth, supportive and authentic connections, moments of joy and fulfillment, and a steady sense of hope.

✨Above all, may the year ahead offer clarity, balance, and a deep sense of purpose as you continue caring for yourself and those you love.

✨We want to sincerely thank once again everyone who has contributed to the ongoing work of Hummingbird Clinic. We send our warmest wishes to you, and your loved ones, for a healthy and happy 2026.


✨As the year draws to a close, we pause with heartfelt appreciation for every patient who placed their trust in us. ⭐️Th...
30/12/2025

✨As the year draws to a close, we pause with heartfelt appreciation for every patient who placed their trust in us.

⭐️Thank you for allowing us to be part of your healing and growth—your strength, honesty, and dedication give meaning to everything we do.

✨This clinic exists because of you, and we are grateful to support you on your journey.
We move into the coming year carrying deep gratitude, hope, and respect for all that lies ahead.

Thank you to everyone who made this possible. 💌

28/12/2025

✨ As this year wraps up, remember:
So much of what people carry can’t be seen. Some are grieving someone they loved. Some learned how to survive their days in silence. Some kept being there for everyone else while feeling
hollow inside. Some smiled, even when everything felt unbearably
heavy.

If this year demanded more from you than you felt you had, please know this: you’re not alone.

We’re here to listen and to support.

✨Autism & Anxiety: Understanding the Connection 💡Anxiety is a common experience for many autistic people because their n...
27/12/2025

✨Autism & Anxiety: Understanding the Connection

💡Anxiety is a common experience for many autistic people because their nervous systems interact differently with the world. Sensory overload emotional regulation differences, heightened threat responses constant pressure to meet neurotypical expectations..can all increase anxiety.

💡When environments are unpredictable, overwhelming, or misunderstand autistic needs, anxiety can intensify.

💡Masking to fit in may help short term, but often comes at the cost of burnout, stress, and self-doubt.

✨ A neuro-affirming perspective reminds us: Autism doesn’t need fixing. Anxiety reduces when we increase predictability, reduce sensory threat, and respect different ways of communicating, connecting, and being.

✨Adjust the environment — not the person.


🎄✨Believing in Santa Claus isn’t just a fun holiday tradition: it's a window into children’s emotional and cognitive dev...
25/12/2025

🎄✨Believing in Santa Claus isn’t just a fun holiday tradition: it's a window into children’s emotional and cognitive development.

🎄Magical thinking is a normal part of childhood, helping kids practice patience, manage frustration, and accept limits. Psychologists like Winnicott describe Santa as part of a “transitional space” that bridges fantasy and reality, while Bettelheim reminds us that stories like these help children organize their fears, hopes, and understanding of generosity. Experiencing joy, anticipation, and the “gift from elsewhere” supports brain development, social understanding, and emotional growth.

✨🎄As children grow, they naturally come to understand the story’s limits—but this gentle transition preserves structure, meaning, and trust, rather than disappointment. Santa, in short, is more than a story.

❤️

✨This holiday season, we extend our warmest wishes to you and your loved ones for a Merry Christmas🎄 filled with hope, c...
25/12/2025

✨This holiday season, we extend our warmest wishes to you and your loved ones for a Merry Christmas🎄 filled with hope, comfort, and peace of mind.

⭐️We know that this time of year can bring a mix of emotions, and we want to remind you that caring for your mental health is just as important as celebrating the season.

✨May these days offer moments of rest, connection, and self-compassion, and may the coming year bring renewed strength, balance, and well-being.

❤️ ❤️

⭐️This holiday season, we extend our warmest wishes to you and your loved ones for a Merry Christmas🎄 filled with hope, ...
25/12/2025

⭐️This holiday season, we extend our warmest wishes to you and your loved ones for a Merry Christmas🎄 filled with hope, comfort, and peace of mind.

⭐️We know that this time of year can bring a mix of emotions, and we want to remind you that caring for your mental health is just as important as celebrating the season.

❄️May these days offer moments of rest, connection, and self-compassion, and may the coming year bring renewed strength, balance, and well-being.

❤️ ❤️

💌 We’re proud to share a few words from our Clinical psychologist, Dr. Olivia Pounds, DClinPsy, on what clinical psychol...
24/12/2025

💌 We’re proud to share a few words from our Clinical psychologist, Dr. Olivia Pounds, DClinPsy, on what clinical psychology means to her. 💬

💌 Dr. Pounds reflects on the privilege of being entrusted with clients’ experiences and hopes, and her belief that therapy is a truly collaborative process — one built on care, respect, curiosity, and shared understanding. Her aim is not quick fixes, but helping people make sense of their difficulties, build awareness, and feel empowered to navigate life’s challenges with greater confidence.

💌We’re also pleased to share that Dr. Olivia Pounds is taking on new patients starting January 6 2026.

💌 If you’re considering beginning therapy or returning to it, this may be the right time to take that step.

✨The passage is from Freud, Sigmund 1933a [1932], New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, trs. James Strachey from ...
24/12/2025

✨The passage is from Freud, Sigmund 1933a [1932], New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, trs. James Strachey from Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse: SE 22, GW 15.

✨It suggests that just as a broken crystal shows its internal structure, psychological breakdowns expose truths about human psychology that are normally invisible.

✨Here’s the interpretation step by step:

1. The crystal metaphor
⭐️When a crystal breaks, it doesn’t shatter randomly.
⭐️It splits along pre-existing internal lines (cleavage planes) that were already there, just invisible.
⭐️The break reveals the crystal’s inner structure.

2. Applying this to the mind
⭐️ Freud argues that when a person develops severe mental illness, their mind doesn’t fall apart randomly either.
⭐️Instead, it “breaks” along pre-existing psychological structures.
⭐️Mental illness exposes underlying conflicts, patterns, or divisions that exist in all human minds but are usually hidden.

3. What this means
⭐️The implication is that everyone has these inner structures.
⭐️Mental patients are not fundamentally different; they reveal, in an exaggerated form, things that exist in everyone.
⭐️Their condition makes visible what is usually concealed in psychologically healthy people.

4. Reverential awe
⭐️In the past, people sometimes treated the insane as possessing special insight or closeness to hidden truths.
⭐️Freud says we still feel a version of this awe—not because mental illness is mystical, but because it offers access to deep psychological realities.

5. Turning away from external reality
⭐️When one breaks down, there is a withdraw from shared, external reality.
⭐️But in doing so, one may gain heightened access to internal, psychic reality—emotions, drives, fears, and conflicts that others repress.

6. The core message
⭐️Breaking down is also a revelation.
⭐️What seems like chaos actually follows meaningful, underlying rules.

🔖Book: Akhtar, S. (2000). Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment. Jason Aronson, Inc. (Bloo...
23/12/2025

🔖Book: Akhtar, S. (2000). Broken Structures: Severe Personality Disorders and Their Treatment. Jason Aronson, Inc. (Bloomsbury Publishing). ISBN 978-0765702555

✨"Broken Structures" is an in-depth psychoanalytic and psychiatric exploration of severe personality disorders and their treatment. Akhtar integrates classical and contemporary theory with clinical insight to provide detailed profiles of personality disorders such as narcissistic, borderline, schizoid, paranoid, hypomanic, antisocial, histrionic, and schizotypal personalities. He emphasizes the role of identity diffusion — a fragmentation in the core sense of self — as central to understanding these disorders, tracing developmental origins with references to Freud, Erikson, Mahler, Winnicott, Kernberg and others.

✨Akhtar not only covers descriptive phenomenology but also discusses psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic treatment approaches, including initial evaluation, transference dynamics, and practical strategies for engaging severely disturbed patients in meaningful clinical work.

✨This book aims to bridge psychiatry and psychoanalysis, offering clinicians both conceptual depth and practical guidance.

A book (and amazing author) we highly recommend!

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Al Thanyah Fifth, Mazaya Business Avenue AA1 Suite 1707
Dubai
487782

Opening Hours

Monday 08:30 - 19:00
Tuesday 08:30 - 19:00
Wednesday 08:30 - 19:00
Thursday 08:30 - 19:00
Friday 08:30 - 19:00
Saturday 10:00 - 19:00

Telephone

+971559351898

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