Psychotherapists help Yazidis heal layers of trauma in Iraq

At a community centre in northern Iraq, Yazidi women from a nearby camp for internally displaced people attend a psychotherapy session [Lynzy Billing/Al Jazeera]

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Duhok, northern Iraq – Rawnaq Abdulrahman peeks out of the door of her counselling room and invites Ahmad in. The slim 37-year-old settles across from the psychotherapist, his leather jacket melting into the comfortable leather armchair. A lamp floods the room in a warm glow. Photographs of waterfalls and forests on the walls and a colourful rug on the floor transport him to a place far from the displacement camp where he lives.