Wafi is an Islamic Psychologist, counsellor, researcher, and educator whose work focuses on integrating contemporary psychological knowledge with the Islamic intellectual and spiritual tradition. He is currently Researching Clinical Counseling Psychology at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar, where his academic interests centre around culturally and religiously integrated approaches to mental health and psychotherapy.

He pursued his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Psychology and has undertaken further professional training in counselling, neuroscience coaching, Islamic thought and philosophy, and Arabic. Alongside his academic journey in psychology, Wafi has dedicated several years to the traditional study of the Islamic sciences.

His Islamic studies journey has taken him beyond conventional classrooms. He studied in Egypt and Madinah under esteemed scholars, studying areas of Islamic theology, spirituality, Arabic, and the classical Islamic intellectual tradition. This combination of traditional Islamic scholarship and contemporary psychological training has significantly shaped his approach to Islamic Psychology.