Dr. Mirrat Gul Butt

Senior Clinical Psychologist – Mayo Hospital, Lahore

Vice President – Pakistan Association of Cognitive Therapists

Finance Secretary – Pakistan Association of Clinical Psychologist (PACP)

Dr. Gul completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology. Over 19 years of clinical experience she provided mental health services to diverse population in Pakistan. She plays an important role in the culturally adapted mental health interventions for the population suffering in mental health problems. She has a deep ability to maintain emotional stability to cope with human suffering, emergencies, and other stressors. She remained deeply involved in the “treatment planning” with strong symptom based assessment of client’s problem. She provided her services in different renowned institutes “Fountain House, Lahore”, “Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC)”, “Sir Gangaram Hospital, Lahore” and “Mayo Hospital, Lahore”.

She is certified in different courses which are:

  1. Basics of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  2. DBT Skills for Adolescents & Families
  3. Introduction to Integrating Mindfulness into CBT, 2020
  4. Integrating Mindfulness of Self-Compassion into CBT
  5. Integrating Mindfulness of Thoughts into CBT,
  6. Integrating Mindfulness of Emotions into CBT
  7. Diploma Cognitive Therapy Level III (Oxford Learning Course)
  8. Self-Hypnosis Level I
  9. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) with Oxford Cognitive Behavior Therapy (Online course)
Research Fundings

Grants, Contracts and Clinical Trails

2006 – 2007

Principal Applicant. Evaluation of mental health problems in Kashmir, 18 months after the earthquake in Pakistan . Fountain House, Lahore, Pakistan . . .  Principal Investigator: Naeem, Farooq. 150,000 PKR.

2006 – 2008

Principal Applicant. Postnatal depression and its comparison with the gender of newborne in fourth pregnency  . Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Lahore, Pakistan . . .  Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Haroon Rashid Chuadhry (Late). 250,000 PKR.

2009 – 2013

Principal Applicant. A Randomised Controlled Trial of Culturally adapted CBT for  depression . Pakistan Association of Cognitive Therapists . . PACT/2009/2306.  Principal Investigator: Naeem, Farooq . 250,000 PKR.

2010 – 2013

Principal Applicant. Brief CBT for psychosis: RCT. Pakistan Association of Cognitive Therapists. PACT/2010/3109.  Principal Investigator: Naeem, Farooq. 300,000 PKR.
This project tested the first culturally adapted CBT for Psychosis outside the Western World

Dr. Gul also served in Research field and her work is not limited but some glimpse is:

  1. Latif, M., Awan, F., Gul, M., Huissian, M.,Sayyed, K., Naeem, F. (2021). Preliminary evaluation of the culturally adapted CBT- based online programme for depression and anxiety from a low middle –income country, The cogniotive behavior therapist, 14,E36. Doi:10.1017/S1754470x21000313
  2. Hamid Mehmood, Amina Muazzam, Mirrat Gul Butt, Bushra Jabeen, Gul Zareen and Shamila Afhan (2021). Gender differences in ways of coping among cardiovascular disease’s patient. PJMHS vol, 15, No. 9, September
  3. Madeeha Latif, Ishrat Hussain, Mirrat Gul Butt, Saiqa Naz, Muhammad Irfan, Muhammad Aslam, Falahat awan, Ayesha Sharif, Shanaya Rathod, Saeed Farooq, Muhammad ayub and Faroqo Naeem (2021) Culturally adapted Trauma Focused CBT based guided self-help (CatCBT GSH) for female victims of domestic violence in Pakistan: feasibility randomized control trial. Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy, 49 (1), 50-61. Doi:10.1017/S1352465820000685.
  4. Mirrat Gul Butt, Zahid Mahmood and Mariam Haroon, (2020). Modified Dialectical Behaviour Therapy with Borderline Personality Traits: An Outcome Study. PJMHS, Vol. 1, No.4, Oct-Dec 2020.
  5. Farooq Naeem, Madeeha Latif, Firdaus Mukhtar, Youl-Ri Kim, Weuhul Li, Mirrat Gul Butt, Nimisha Kumar and Roger Ng.(2020):Transcultural adaptation of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) in Asia. http://doi.org/10.1111/appy.12442
  6. Mirrat Gul Butt, Zahid Mahmood and Sadia Saleem (2017). Self report measure for borderline personality traits in clinical population.J Psotgrad Med Inst: 31 (4): 414-9
  7. Mutation in mitochondirail enzyme GPT2 cause metabolic dysfunction and neurological disease with developmental and progressive features. Qing, O., Tojo, N., Ozan, B., Shaun, M.D., Chandong, Y., Micheal, S., Sofia, B.L., Sasmita, M., Malak, E., Saima, N., Mirrat, G. B., et al. (2016) pnas.org/cgi/DOI: 10.1073/pnas.160221113
  8. Muhammad Irfan, Sofiya Saeed, Naila Riaz Awan, Mirrat Gul, Muhammad Aslam, Farooq Naeem. Psychological Healing in Pakistan: From Sufism to CulturallyAdapted Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016, J Contemp Psychother. DOI 10.1007/s10879-016-9354-3
  9. Brief culturally adapted CBT for psychosis (CaCBTp): A randomized controlled trial from a low income country. Farooq Naeem, Sofiya Saeed, Muhammad Irfan, Tayyeba Kiran, Nasir Mehmood, Mirrat Gul, Tariq Munshi, Sohail Ahmad, Ajmal Kazmi, Nusrat Husain, Saeed Farooq, Muhammad Ayub, David Kingdon. Schizophr Res 2015 May 8;164(1-3):143-8. Epub 2015 Mar 8.
  10. Brief culturally adapted CBT (CaCBT) for depression: a randomized controlled trial from Pakistan.Farooq Naeem, Mirrat Gul, Muhammad Irfan, Tariq Munshi, Aftab Asif, Sadaf Rashid, Muhammad Nasar Sayeed Khan, Sadaf Ghani, Azmat Malik, Muhammad Aslam, Saeed Farooq, Nusrat Husain, Muhammad Ayub. J Affect Disord 2015 May 23;177:101-7. Epub 2015 Feb 23.
  11. A Qualitative Study to Explore Patients’, Carers’ and Health Professionals’ Views to Culturally Adapt CBT for Psychosis (CBTp) in Pakistan.Farooq Naeem, Nazish Habib, Mirrat Gul, Mehwish Khalid, Sofiya Saeed, Saeed Farooq, Tariq Munshi, Mary Gobbi, Nusrat Husain, Muhammad Ayub, David Kingdon. Behav Cogn Psychother 2016 Jan 2;44(1):43-55. Epub 2014 Sep 2.
  12. A multicentre randomized controlled trial of a Carer supervised Culturally adapted CBT (CaCBT) based Self Help for depression in Pakistan (2013) Farooq Naeem,Ishaque Sarhandi, Mirrat Gul, Mehwish Khalid, Muhammad Aslam, Aqila Anbrin, Sofiya Saeed, Madeeha Noor, Ghulam Fatima, Fareed Minhas, Nusat Hussain, Muhammad Ayub. Journal of Affective Disorders, Available online 8 November 2013.
  13. Postnatal depression and its comparison with the gender of newborn in fourth pregnancy (2012) Mirrat Gul a , Saqib Bajwa b , Saima Niaz c , Mariam Haroon b , Saima Liaqat a , Mafia Ahmad d , Sana Dawood a , Fiza GhazalLate a , Ali Abbass Bhatti a , Sadia Nazir a , Syeda Rabia Riffat a & Haroon Rashid Chaudhry Late. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health 2011, 1_13, iFirst.
  14. Prevalence and psychosocial risk factors of PTSD: 18months after Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan (2010) Naeem F, Ayub M, Masood K, Gul M, Khalid M, Farrukh A, Shaheen A, Waheed W, Chaudhry HR.. J Affect Disord.
  15. Demographic profile of patients in free epilepsy clinic in the community (2007) Shaireen Usman, Haroon Rashid Chaudhry, Aftab Asif, Adnan Yousaf, Syeda Farhana Jahangir, Huma Gul, Mirrat Butt, Mahmood Akhtar. Pak J Med Sci Oct – Dec 2007;23(5):873-6.)

  16. Kazmi, S. M. A., Rasheed, M., Butt, M. G., Batool, I., & Hassan, S. S. (2022). Psychosocial Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Patients with Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. Journal of Peace, Development and Communication, vol. 06, no. 02, pp. 305–320. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.36968/JPDC-V06-I0221

  17. Rasheed. M, Butt. G. M, Izhar. Q, Rasheed. M, “Personality construct among Patients with Substance Use Disorder: An explanatory study in Pakistan”. International Journal of Innovations in Science & Technology, 4(6), 42–49. Retrieved from https://journal.50sea.com/index.php/IJIST/article/view/369
  18. Khawar, H, Butt. G. M, Rasheed, M, (2022). ”Development Of Occupational Stress Scale For Salesgirls In Lahore, Pakistan” Neuroquantology |November 2022 | Volume 20 | Issue 17 | Page 836-841 | Doi: 10.14704/Nq.2022.20.17.Nq880108, Retrieved from https://www.neuroquantology.com/article.php?id=11171