Basirat Abduwahab
Popularly called ‘Coach Bashy’,
Bashirat is a Life Transition Coach, Grief Recovery Therapist, author, corporate trainer, crowdfunding specialist, Tedx speaker, and humanitarian.
With over 16 years of cumulative experience in humanitarian work, community, and women empowerment, skills development, coaching, counselling, and training, Bashirat has worked, trained, and consulted for organizations like Institute for Media and Society, Lumo Naturals, Learning Impact NG, SOBCA, Foliage Academy, Digibox, Ashake Foundation, Pro-Oratory Limited, among others. She has a reservoir of resources that she deploys to help women, young people, and organisations harness their potential.
As a practising Helping Practitioner, she has carved a niche for herself in grief management and recovery, emotional and mental wellbeing, happiness and forgiveness strategy, inspirational storytelling, and self-publishing.
In addition to coaching, counselling, writing, and training, Bashirat has harnessed special skills in crowdfunding and has over the years raised millions of Naira for humanitarian causes.
Bashirat is a graduate of the prestigious Bayero University Kano, where she bagged B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mass Communications in 2011 and 2017, respectively. She has over the years acquired certifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner) from The Priority Academy, UK; Diploma in Grief and Bereavement Counselling from KEW Academy, UK; Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health First Aid from CERCA Africa. She is currently pursuing a 3rd degree in Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Bashirat is also currently serving as Governor of Cerca Africa Life Coaches.
She’s the founder of The Grief Recovery Hub Ng, an organisation that is committed to raising awareness and educating people on grief, creating safe spaces for people in grief and offering grief recovery therapy services and resources individuals and organisations. In 2026, the hub launched the Grief First Aid Certificate Course, first of its kind in Nigeria. The Course offers everyday people the skills to respond to grieving persons with compassion and support with confidence.
Bashirat is a resourceful speaker (She is graced the Tedx stage), trainer, writer, and life coach. She is a published author of Bestsellers such as From Pain To Purpose (2017), Help! There Is a Book In My Head (2019); Dispossessed (2019), among others. Her lastest book, titled The Green Book of Forgiveness, hit the market 2022.
Bashirat has been featured and interviewed on various media platforms to include: Daily Trust Newspaper, Blueprint, Armed Forces Radio, NTA International, Liberty TV & Radio. In 2018, she was named Woman Extraordinaire by Search Inwards Magazine.
Bashirat is married and blessed with 3 children. When she’s not working, she’s spending quality time with family, reading a book, and having tea time.
