May Aoun is the Global Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Advisor at Save the Children, based in Beirut, Lebanon. She is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist by training, and a senior mental health professional with extensive global experience in program development and implementation, mentoring, training, research, and clinical service delivery.

May has significant experience working in humanitarian contexts, with a particular focus on integrating MHPSS into child protection, education, health, nutrition, and youth programming. She has collaborated on multiple global MHPSS research initiatives, including a randomized controlled trial of the WHO’s scalable psychological intervention for adolescents (EASE), and the EQUIP project—an effort to validate competency assessment tools that ensure helpers delivering brief psychological interventions or psychosocial support meet minimum standards of practice.

She is the author of several psychosocial and paraprofessional counseling interventions for children and youth, successfully implemented in the Middle East and beyond. May holds advanced degrees in clinical psychology as well as psychosocial support and peacebuilding