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Who Are We

Current start dates available:

Wednesday 31st May – presenter Munur Shah
Thursday 15th June – presenter Munur Shah
Saturday 17th June – presenter Munur Shah

There are limited spaces available. To find out later course dates please join our waitlist.

Our Story

Rebel Therapies was created in response to the difficulties we saw being encountered from the unregulated wild west of the digital online world. Since the 2010’s and the emergence of smartphones and tablets, we have seen an unimaginable change in the way we communicate. The impact of this technology coupled with digital apps has had a devastating impact on many elements of our society, with some of us being more directly impacted than others.

Our Journey began in 2013 when Munur Shah, an entrepreneur, business mentor and life coach, experienced first-hand the difficulties created by the addiction to screens in his own family. This led Munur to research and understand the drivers of the intrusive technologies which play increasingly significant roles in shaping and changing our emotions, thoughts and behaviour!

Our team is a group of specialists and parents who believe in sharing our knowledge and experiences to create greater awareness. We are determined in building a more sustainable, respectful and healthy online world, and approach to screen life by fully understanding the underlying causes of the harmful technology we are exposed to on a day-to-day basis.

We are focused on creating a happier, healthier, more inclusive world for everyone
including our children and future generations to come!

Munur’s Story

The journey started early-to-mid 2010’s when Munur realised he was so engrossed in his phone he lost valuable time with his family and friends. He wanted to understand why he was so addicted to FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram as well as playing games like Candy Crush! It was devouring so many hours in his day, that he hardly had time for anything else. He had his phone with him and was constantly checking it whether that was having dinner with the family, watching TV, in the bathroom, first thing in the morning, and for hours at night!

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It left him drained, irritable and low on many occasions. He noticed that this behaviour was rubbing off on his children and once they were given a smartphone, he saw the same patterns, if not worse, in them. What was it that was so intriguing about these little machines that compelled him to want to interact with them more than interacting with family and friends? Having gone through the addiction “thing” with his phone, and seeing his children incredibly addicted and negatively impacted by phones, tablets, gaming consoles, he decided to act.

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He acted the way he thought best to help his family out of the screen addiction nightmare, and through trial and error, as well as years of research, training and coaching, he found a number of techniques that if implemented over a period of time, would drastically reduce the addiction to these devices.

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Over and above that, he also found out the many different levels that are associated to the addiction to screens, and how many organisations use specific strategies and techniques to initially snare us and keep us invested in what they do by triggering us in just the right places. If you, like him, want to make a substantial change in your life and also help to reduce the addiction and reliance on screens for your children, take massive action today!

Combat Screen Addiction
Current Course Start Dates:

Wednesday 15th January 2025
Saturday 25th January 2025
Monday 10th March 2025
Wednesday 19th March 2025
Tuesday 6th May 2025

*Limited spaces available in each 5-session programme

If you would like to know more about this, how it works, and what you can do to stop the addiction to screens, please join me and my colleagues live on one of the Combat Screen Addiction courses. Find out more about the courses, modules and takeaways here.

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“Combat Screen Addiction taught me to build a better relationship with my children regarding how we talk to each other about their social media and gaming habit, and how we can all make informed choices about what we do online.”

Amy Robins, mum of 2 teenage girls

Meet the Team

Munur Shah

Founder & CEO

Petra Salva OBE

Coach & Mentor

Shabazz Nelson

Coach & Mindfulness Specialist

Richard Bell

Coach & Mentor

Melanie Shah

EFT Therapist & Coach

Martin Watson

Psychoanalyst

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Munur Shah

Munur has dedicated the past few years in researching the impact of screens and their addictive nature on the unsuspecting world population.  His knowledge and expertise in this area has naturally directed him to create a programme to help understand and combat the problems screen addiction poses.

An experienced mentor and coach, Munur is passionate about ‘awakening’ your senses to how organisations create applications with their number one requirement and desire being capturing your attention at any cost.

Screen addiction is an ever-increasing problem and now at an epic scale, especially among teens and young children. Anxiety, stress, loneliness, bullying, harassment (mental and physical), polarisation, misinformation, racism, sexism, hate, self-harm, and suicide are some of the by-products of screen addiction.

As parents and guardians, now is the time to take responsible action to help your children take back control of their lives, rebuild relationships, and create a positive, happier, healthier lifestyle.

Over the past few years, he has spent his time helping parents and their children overcome their addiction to screens.

Munur has created this programme using his experience alongside in-depth research to help parents coach their children to take back control of their time, and their lives.

Petra Salva OBE

Petra Salva began her career in youth and community work after graduating with a BA Hons in Community and Youth Studies in Lancaster. Since then, she has accumulated 30 successful years’ experience working with young people and adults. She is best known for her work and contribution working in the third sector in the UK and abroad. Specifically leading and designing projects within Homeless charities and influencing the Government, local authorities, and the London Mayors Office around national and local rough sleeping strategies and has significant experience in leadership roles and managing large scale change.

She has been at the forefront of developing services that directly support some of the most destitute people in our society and in 2019 she was awarded an OBE for her years of contribution and impact in this field.

Petra is passionate about helping people and organisations to grow and develop their skills and aspirations. She is a qualified coach and mentor with many years of experience in delivering training and working one to one or in groups.

Shabazz Nelson

Shabazz has over two decades of working as a behavioural change specialist and coach to hundreds of academic and private clients. His unique style of engaging, enquiring, determining goals, and activating real change and success, has changed the lives of each of his clients. 

He helps clients experience empowerment when resolving current issues, creating coping strategies, and acknowledges client talents and gifts, encouraging them to find new and innovative ways to utilize them.

Shabazz works relationally with his clients, allowing for a development of understanding and alliance, which creates the structure and safety for clients to be themselves and access their true self. Clients are then free to create new goals and strategies for success, but with a wholly positive regard for themselves.

Richard Bell

Richard is an experienced mentor and executive coach with a record of accomplishment of working with large corporate organisations supporting key career transitions and continuous professional development. Richard also mentors technology entrepreneurs and is the co-founder of a software start-up company.

Transition Coaching is a key focus, supporting clients who are new to company, function or corporate title.  Supporting senior promotion candidates through the selection and evaluation processes and then guiding them to establish senior peer-to-peer relationships, personal gravitas and cross-functional teamworking.

Richard’s style of coaching is both supportive and challenging. He is passionate about working with the “whole person” and believes that career transitions are only a single aspect of an individual’s current situation. Exploration of any “limiting beliefs” and utilisation of creative coaching techniques help visualise the target state.

Melanie Shah

Releasing Emotion, Building Resilience, Uncovering Joy 

Melanie has dedicated the last decade delivering to her clients as a therapist, mentor and coach.

Melanie offers a bespoke mix of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as Tapping, combined with NLP, Hypnotherapy and Life Coaching. She delivers individualised therapy and coaching to an international clientele with varying ages, cultures, and requirements.  

Melanie has helped with a range of presentations including trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue, physical pain, phobias and addictions, relationships, and self-esteem.  The value of this kind of therapy is that it can be applied widely and have rapid, measurable results.

Her work as an integrative therapist draws upon her various academic and informal learning, across countries and cultures, and across various professional and personal roles.  In her experience within private practice, she has honed her techniques in creating a solution-based, individualised service for each client to explore their perceived inner and outer world with safety and curiosity. 

Melanie encourages her clients to try the cutting-edge therapy that she offers. The work with her clients has the potential to be very empowering.

Martin Watson

Martin is an experienced accredited psychodynamic psychotherapist with many years of working with and helping adults. Martin believes in creating a safe space and a trusting relationship can help us think and explore together the reasons you might be looking for help and counselling. He has worked with many ranges of anxiety, depression, trauma, and loss. He has a gentle, sensitive approach and would welcome meeting you to see if he can help you too.

Martin is a fully qualified psychodynamic psychotherapist accredited with the BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council). He offers individual therapy to adults and young people. He is also a registered member of the BACP (MBACP).

He has been offering individual therapy and counselling for many years in both private practise and within organisations. He is currently working with the Counselling Foundation and has previously worked at Mind in Barnet for many years. Martin also worked as part of the Grief Encounter adult bereavement counselling team.