The United Arab Emirates underwent major transformations in the last four decades. The country went from impoverishment to lavish wealth within a short time. The country's economic advancements as well as the relatively liberal policies and openness has brought people from all over the world to work and live in the UAE. This sudden transformation and openness may have increased the prevalence of some mental illness in the UAE. Mental healthcare is publicly funded and provided free of charge to all Emirati citizens. Despite that, mental health services in the UAE are severely underutilized due to factors such as stigma, lack of awareness and lack of cultural applicability of Western therapies to the local culture. Moreover, family therapy services as well as services geared toward sexual minorities are nonexistent in the UAE. This doctoral project aimed to identify barriers to delivering and accessing mental health and family therapy services in the UAE from the perceptive of mental health clinicians.