Visual Artist | Egypt
Nourhan Eltoukhi
About the creator
Nourhan Eltoukhi
- Nourhan Eltoukhi is an Egyptian psychotherapist, expressive arts therapist, and multidisciplinary artist born in 1998, based in Egypt. Her practice bridges clinical psychology, body-based healing, and the creative arts, and her artistic work spans painting, photography, and embodied arts. For Nourhan, the act of creating is inseparable from the act of living.Her philosophy flows into both her artistic and therapeutic work. Through painting and photography, she creates layered abstractions and visual storytelling that give what words cannot capture. In therapy, she draws from multiple schools and traditions, respecting the wisdom in each. Yet she holds firmly that every client is the true expert of their own experience. Her role is to guide, to witness, and to offer tools that help people access their own inner healing.
Short Biography
Nourhan trained in psychology in Malaysia and the UK before completing long-form specialisations in art therapy and expressive arts therapy. Over seven years of training, supervision, and lived practice, she has developed a multidisciplinary approach that integrates clinical insight with somatic awareness, creative expression, and spiritual inquiry. She works bilingually in Arabic and English, with sensitivity to cultural identity and individual rhythm, and offers therapy through international wellness platforms including Spring Health, Modern Health, and O7 Therapy, as well as in-person centres in Egypt. She has collaborated with organisations including Mastercard, Sunderland, and Vitafluence, and leads group workshops, sound healing sessions, and retreat programmes. Her ongoing research investigates the relationship between autoimmune illness, the nervous system, and integrative healing, with a particular focus on Multiple Sclerosis and the role of expressive arts and alternative medicine in supporting wellbeing.
Education
Nourhan holds a Bachelor of Psychology with Honours from Taylor's University, Malaysia, where she graduated on the Dean's List, and an MSc in Clinical Psychology and Mental Health from London South Bank University, awarded with Merit. She completed a three-year diploma in Art Therapy at the College of Educational and Clinical Art Therapy and a two-year certification in Expressive Arts Therapy with the World Arts Organization. Her ongoing studies encompass somatic practices including Spinal Energetics, Somatic Experiencing, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Sufi Psychology, alongside holistic modalities including tuning fork therapy, crystal and sound healing, aromatherapy, dreamwork, energetic numerology, and movement medicine.
Artistic Style
Nourhan works across painting and photography, approaching both as forms of embodied inquiry rather than representation. Her paintings are layered and intuitive, built through texture, gesture, and emotional resonance, emerging from a process closer to sensing than to planning. Her photography attends to light, movement, and the overlooked details of everyday life, uncovering stories behind ordinary moments. Shaped by travel, solitude, and reflective practice, her work across both mediums invites viewers into spaces of softness and emotional depth, expressing what exists beneath the visible rather than replicating what is already seen.
Additional Information
Nourhan is currently developing 'Untold Stories of a Tree', a fine art photography series exploring the dialogue between nature and inner life, and is working on therapeutic journals that combine poetry, visual art, and self-reflective practices. Her group workshops bring together movement, voice, painting, and ritual, while her sound healing sessions use crystal bowls, tuning forks, and voice to support emotional release and nervous system restoration. She also delivers workplace wellbeing sessions focused on stress reduction and balance in professional environments.
Masterpieces by Nourhan Eltoukhi
