Child psychologist Mozhdeh Ghasemiyani shares her heartbreaking story of her family's refuge from Iran to Denmark where they met Valdemar, a man who changed their lives when he gave them the simplest of gifts: friendship. Mozhdeh Ghasemiyani is an experienced psychologist with specialist expertise in trauma, refugees and crises. She has worked in both government, local government and NGO’s in Denmark, the UK and the US to improve the treatment of refugees, especially children.

Mozhdeh’s work for refugees has been both on the political level aiming at educating the media and population at large, and on the human level seeking to alleviate the suffering of individual refugees.

Mozhdeh is currently a crisis psychologist for Doctors without Borders and the Danish Institute against Torture. She has written the Red Cross’ handbook, and also managed a project for the NGO Freedom from Torture in London, where she developed best-practices for work with unaccompanied minors who had survived torture.

Mozhdeh was born in Iran and her family came to Denmark in 1995 under the UNHCR’s quota system. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx