Finding Zaha
Most people arrive here after months of trying to make therapy and faith fit in two separate rooms. The first three stops are about being met, not sold.
She lands on the site, looking for someone who won't make her choose.He opens the link his sister sent, looking for someone who won't make him choose.They land on the site, looking for someone who won't make them choose.
Aisha types "Muslim therapist near me" for the third time that month, this time on a Sunday night. The third result is zaha.health. The hero reads: Mental health that actually gets you.
What she sees first isn't pricing. It's a sentence about not having to translate herself.
Yusuf is on his lunch break behind the pharmacy counter, scrolling on his phone between scripts. His sister sent him a link last week. He finally opens it. The first thing he reads is: Therapy and faith. Coordinated.
What he sees isn't a sales page. It's a sentence about being held in both registers at once.
Layla and Adnan find Zaha at 1am after a fight about the wedding guest list — really about whose family's traditions would lead. Layla types "Muslim premarital counseling" into her phone in the dark; the fourth result is zaha.health. She reads the bottom of the page out loud and Adnan goes quiet for a long time.
What they see isn't crisis counseling. It's a sentence about covenant.
Therapist alone
"Faith is your own business. Let's stay clinical."Imam alone
"Trust Allah. Make du'a. Pray more."Zaha
Both, in conversation with each other — on one plan.Mental health that
actually gets you
A licensed Muslim therapist and a vetted imam, working together on one plan — so your care holds both the clinical and the spiritual.
Six programs. Named for what they hold — not what they treat.
Sakina (stillness), Yaqeen (certainty), Fajr (dawn), Sabr (endurance), Mithaq (covenant), Rahma (mercy). Each program pairs an evidence-based clinical track with a parallel spiritual companion track. You're not picking a diagnosis. You're picking the shape of the help.
Underneath each program: the clinical modality (CBT, ERP, ACT, grief-informed, couples-trained, trauma-focused), the typical length, and what kind of imam pairing fits.
Therapist alone
Generic intake. "What brings you in?" again.Imam alone
No structure. Whatever the imam is comfortable with that week.Zaha
Six structured tracks — clinical × spiritual, designed in parallel.Choose the program that fits the season you're in.
An intake that asks the questions no one else asks.
The intake has three parts. Clinical (symptoms, history, medications, safety). Spiritual (the tradition you grew up in or learn from, the scholars and language you actually trust, what you want named in the room). Practical (gender preference for therapist and imam, time zone, language).
You give us the details. We do the matching. There are no dials, sliders, or weights for you to tune — the questions are the questions, and a clinician on staff reads your intake before pairing you.
Therapist alone
PHQ-9, GAD-7, intake form. Faith never named.Imam alone
A 5-minute phone call. No assessment.Zaha
Clinical + spiritual + practical — one form, ~12 minutes.When a client matches to your caseload, you receive a notification with the full intake within 24 hours: clinical history (medications, prior diagnoses, safety screen), spiritual fit (tradition, language, what to name), practical preferences (gender preference, schedule, languages). You have 48 hours to accept the case or pass. Passing is no-fault — the system rotates to the next-best match.
How would you like your imam to engage with the clinical work?
The matching
A multi-factor weighted match across the clinical and the spiritual, hand-reviewed by a clinician on staff before any client sees it.
We match you — on the details you gave us.
You don't tune the matching. You answered the questions; we do the work. Your intake produces a profile across seven factors. Each provider in the network has a profile across the same seven. The system surfaces the top three pairs for your case — then a staff clinician reads both providers' notes, the spiritual fit, and any flags before the top suggestion goes out. If anything looks off, the human overrides.
Therapist alone
Whoever's in-network and free Tuesday at 4.Imam alone
Whoever your masjid recommended.Zaha
7-factor pair match, surfaced by the system, decided by a human.Matches arrive based on your provider profile — modality, specialty, schedule, languages, gender, fiqh rigor, cross-talk style. Each match comes with the case summary and the proposed pair (you + the imam, or you + the therapist). You accept or pass independently. Both providers must accept before the match goes to the client.
If you pass, the next match arrives within 24 hours. The clinical lead reviews patterns of passing — we want fit, not coercion.
Match for AishaYusufLayla & Adnan
The email that says: we found two people who already understand.
Not "your therapist is assigned." Not a calendar invite to a stranger. A short, warm email with both names, both bios, and a sentence about why this pair was chosen.
Every match email is written by a real person on the Zaha clinical team — not a bot, not a customer-success template. The clinical lead reviews and signs each one.
You have 72 hours to accept, request alternates (you'll see two more pairs), or pause. No pressure to lock in.
Therapist alone
Calendar invite. No bio. Hope it's a fit.Imam alone
WhatsApp number. Maybe.Zaha
Two named humans, with bios — and the why.You write your own welcome note — a few sentences, in your voice, on your template. Not an essay. The clinical lead approves your first three before you have authorial freedom; after that, you write directly. Delivered alongside the match email from the Zaha care team, signed by the clinical lead.
We found two people who already understand.
As-salamu alaykum, Aisha.As-salamu alaykum, Yusuf.As-salamu alaykum, Layla and Adnan. Of the available pairings, this one rose to the top — and a clinician on our team reviewed it this morning. Both have read the relevant parts of your intake. Both have agreed to take you on for the 12-week Yaqeen program.8-week Sabr program.3-session Mithaq program.
Take 72 hours. You can accept, ask for alternates (you'll see two more pairs), or pause. There's no penalty for any of those.
Accept this pair →If your pair isn't right — the window is the first week.
Re-pairing once the work begins is hard on you and hard on the providers. Goals are in motion. Trust is mid-build. So we hold one clean window for swaps — the first seven days, ending at your first session. In that window, no reason required, no charge, no waitlist.
After your first session, we don't do at-will swaps. If something serious surfaces — a clinical mismatch, a safety concern, a tradition misfit — raise it with the clinical lead. A staff clinician reviews; if a swap is warranted, we time it to a natural break and run a structured handoff. Otherwise we work it inside the existing pair, where the relationship lives.
If you need to stop entirely, you can cancel the program at any time. Unused sessions are refunded pro-rata; we keep your records for 90 days in case you come back, then you can ask us to delete them. No exit fee, no NDA, no clawback on what you've already done.
The first-week window — in three steps.
- 1You request a change — therapist, imam, or both — any time before your first session.
- 2A clinician on staff reviews within 48 hours and proposes two new pairings.
- 3Your old provider closes warmly with a short transfer note. Your new pair has it before you meet.
How a change happens, without starting over — and why timing matters.
The first seven days are a clean swap window: any reason, no charge, no waitlist. After your first session we hold the line, because the program is the relationship — running pair changes through it, mid-stream, undoes the work. Here is the full flow.
If you want a different therapist
If you want a different imam
Six things we promise — swap or cancel
- First-week swap is no-fault, no charge, and doesn't restart the intake.
- After your first session, we don't run at-will swaps — we review with a staff clinician and, if warranted, time the change to a natural break in the program.
- Your session cadence doesn't break — the rhythm continues through any bridge.
- The provider you leave is told warmly, on our side. You never have to break the news.
- You can cancel the whole program at any time. Unused sessions are refunded pro-rata.
- No exit fee, no NDA, no clawback on the work you've done. Records held 90 days, then deletable on request.
- If a provider ever leaves Zaha entirely (rare but real), you're notified within 48 hours, given the transfer note, and matched with two new options for whichever provider left. Same first-week protections apply: no charge, structured handoff, no restart.
Therapist alone
You start over. New intake. New waitlist.Imam alone
Awkward conversation at the masjid.Zaha
Clean first-week window. After session 1: clinical review, not at-will. Cancel anytime, pro-rata refund.If a client requests a different therapist or imam in the first week, you aren't told until the decision is made. The clinical lead reviews the request and handles the conversation with the client. You hear from the lead, not from the client. There's no professional risk in being swapped — pattern matters more than any single fit, and the lead tracks both.
Bridge week (if it happens): you make a 15-minute closing call and write a one-page transfer note. Your clinical record stays with you; only what's relevant to the goals transfers.
Request a change
First-week window · before your first session. No-fault, no charge, reviewed within 48h.
The beginning
The first week sets the tone. A welcome that isn't a form. A workbook that isn't a worksheet. A first session where two providers meet you at the same table.
A welcome that feels written for you — not at you.
Within 24 hours of accepting, three things land in your portal: a note from your therapist, a note from your imam, and your program workbook.
Each note is short and personal. Each one names what they heard in your intake, what they're bringing to the room, and one sentence on how they prefer to begin. Not a template. We approve every one.
The workbook is real — printed-quality PDF, terra and cream, ~36 pages. Each week pairs a clinical exercise (CBT logs, exposure ladders, or grief letters depending on the program) with a spiritual companion (verses, du'as, reflection prompts) on facing pages.
The workbook is real — printed-quality PDF, terra and cream, ~36 pages. Each week pairs a clinical exercise (CBT logs, exposure ladders, or grief letters depending on the program) with a spiritual companion (verses, du'as, reflection prompts) on facing pages.
The workbook is real — printed-quality PDF, terra and cream, ~28 pages. One section per session: prompts you write together, prompts you write alone first, a verse to sit with, and one small ritual you bring back to the next session.
Therapist alone
Intake forms. Maybe a reading list.Imam alone
"Read Surah al-Sharh." End of welcome.Zaha
Two short notes + a workbook designed for the work.Each provider's first-week prep is real work: review the intake, write the short welcome note, draft your part of the proposed care plan for kickoff, pre-brief with the other provider the day before kickoff.
The provider thread opens the moment both of you accept. First message in is a greeting — salaam, looking forward to working with you on this — plus any schedule or style notes worth flagging early. By pre-brief you're not strangers. By kickoff, the client never feels two professionals meeting cold in front of them.
"I read your intake. Wudu is where it shows up loudest, but I see the wider system in your answers — the prayer-cycle doubt, the post-dhikr checking, the second-guessing in recitation. Twelve weeks of ERP across the constellation. We start narrow and widen the lens. This isn't a system you're going to debug, sister. There is no failing here."
"I am holding your father in my mind as I write. You spend your days at the counter handing other people their relief; this work is for you, not for them. The work isn't to move past him — it is to learn to carry him. Welcome."
"A lawyer and an engineer wrote me three full paragraphs about traditions, between you. Neither of you wrote 'love' in those paragraphs. We'll start there — not because you don't love each other, but because the love is the one thing nobody trained either of you to translate."
"As-salamu alaykum, sister. Your wudu is not broken. We will sit with that, and with the Prophet's ﷺ gentleness on the question, together."
"Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. May Allah grant your father the highest of stations. His name will not be set aside while we work. That is a promise."
"Wa min ayatihi an khalaqa lakum min anfusikum azwajan. The signs come before the contracts. We will work on both. Welcome to a covenant in the making."
The first session is a three-person room — the first of two.The first session is a three-person room — the first of two.All three sessions are a four-person room.
Two joint sessions sit at either end of the program: the kickoff (here) and graduation. The midpoint, in between, is held with the imam alone. Sixty minutes, all three of you. The therapist opens with a clinical frame. The imam offers a brief reflection or du'a. Then the three of you build the care plan together — out loud, on screen, edited live.
By the end you have: two or three goals (one clinical, one spiritual, sometimes one practical), a weekly cadence, and clarity on what each provider holds.
Two joint sessions sit at either end of the program: the kickoff (here) and graduation. The midpoint, in between, is held with the imam alone. Sixty minutes, all three of you. The therapist opens with a clinical frame. The imam offers a brief reflection or du'a. Then the three of you build the care plan together — out loud, on screen, edited live.
By the end you have: two or three goals (one clinical, one spiritual, sometimes one practical), a weekly cadence, and clarity on what each provider holds.
Mithaq is structurally different from the individual programs: all three sessions are joint, with both providers and both of you in the room. There's no weekly therapy and no separate imam-only midpoint — the work happens in three deep sessions, spaced ~3 weeks apart, plus the workbook and shared room between them.
Session 1 (here) sets the frame and writes the goals. Session 2 (the midpoint) goes deepest — the conversation neither of you has yet had. Session 3 closes with a covenant: a written set of agreements you carry into the nikah.
Therapist alone
Solo intake. You translate the faith part later.Imam alone
Solo conversation. You translate the clinical part later.Zaha
One room. Both heard. Care plan written together.Therapist: open with the clinical frame from your intake review (~10 min into the session). Your job is to make sure the goals on the screen at minute 30 are evidence-based and measurable.
Imam: open with a brief reflection or du'a if the client wants it. Hand the clinical frame to the therapist; pick up the spiritual frame at minute 35. Your job is to make sure the spiritual goal is honest and grounded, not aspirational.
Both: notes filed within 24 hours post-session. Care plan committed to the portal before next session.
The work
Most of the program is here. Weekly therapy. A shared room where the three of you can talk between sessions. And, behind the scenes, your providers in close coordination — converging again at the imam-led midpoint.
Most of the program is here. Weekly therapy. A shared room where the three of you can talk between sessions. And, behind the scenes, your providers in close coordination — converging again at the imam-led midpoint.
Most of the program is here, lived inside the rhythm of three deep joint sessions. The shared room holds what surfaces between them. Behind the scenes, your providers stay in close coordination — meeting you again, together, at session 2.
A weekly hour of clinical work — honest about its lane.A weekly hour of clinical work — honest about its lane.Mithaq doesn't have weekly therapy.
Therapy is therapy. Evidence-based, modality-appropriate (CBT, ERP, ACT, grief-informed, trauma-focused depending on program). What's different is your therapist isn't tip-toeing around your faith — she's been briefed on it, knows what your imam is preparing for the midpoint, and treats both as load-bearing.
Therapy is therapy. Evidence-based, modality-appropriate (CBT, ERP, ACT, grief-informed, trauma-focused depending on program). What's different is your therapist isn't tip-toeing around your faith — he's been briefed on it, knows what your imam is preparing for the midpoint, and treats both as load-bearing.
Mithaq is three sessions, all joint — both providers, both of you, in the room together. There is no separate weekly therapy hour. The clinical work happens inside the joint sessions, with the imam present.
Between sessions, the work is on the workbook (some prompts you do together, some you do alone) and the shared room (the next stop on this page). That's by design: Mithaq is a covenant, not a treatment course. The clinical methods are still real — Dr. Hana uses Gottman, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and a fiqh-informed protocol — but they live inside the joint container.
If you signaled a second language at intake — Urdu, French, Bengali, Arabic, Spanish — that shows up two ways: small Arabic phrases and Qur'anic citations stay untranslated where the original carries the meaning, and key fiqh terms can be discussed in your second language when that helps. The clinical work itself stays in English (the modalities are written in English).
Therapist alone
You explain why your faith matters every session.Imam alone
No clinical method, no measurement.Zaha
Faith-literate clinician + your imam in the loop.A 50-minute session, followed by a clinical SOAP note and a thread post if anything is worth flagging to the imam. Notes live in the HIPAA-compliant clinical record; thread posts are reviewed by the clinical lead weekly.
You're expected to maintain modality fidelity (CBT, ERP, ACT, grief-informed, etc.) while staying faith-literate — the program assumes you're comfortable holding both. If you ever feel out of your depth on the spiritual side, the imam is one thread post away.
Mithaq has no weekly therapy — you run only 3 joint sessions (kickoff, mid, close). All prep and shared-room work happens in service of those three sessions.
Three sessions, all joint — no weekly therapy hour.
The clinical work for premarital lives inside the three joint sessions, with both providers in the room. Between sessions, the work is on the workbook and the shared room (next stop). That's the design: Mithaq is a covenant frame, not a treatment course.
The shared room — where the three of you keep talking between sessions.The shared room — where the three of you keep talking between sessions.The shared room — where the four of you keep talking between sessions.
Inside the portal, your "shared room" is a thread between the three of you — your therapist, your imam, and you. It's where small things go that aren't worth a session: a hard wudu on Tuesday, a verse that landed, a question for the imam that came up in therapy.
Inside the portal, your "shared room" is a thread between the three of you — your therapist, your imam, and you. It's where small things go that aren't worth a session: a hard week with your mom, a verse that landed, something a colleague said that you couldn't shake.
Inside the portal, your "shared room" is a thread between the four of you — your therapist, your imam, and the two of you. It's where things go that aren't worth waiting three weeks for: a hard conversation you don't want to escalate, a verse Sheikh Bilal mentioned, a question you didn't get to in session.
It's not a 24/7 hotline. Replies come within one business day. It's not therapy or fatwa — it's continuity. The conversation that used to be impossible because there was no shared room.
One exception to the 24-hour SLA. Any post that mentions self-harm, harm to others, or imminent crisis pages the on-call clinical lead immediately, day or night. Both your providers are looped in within minutes; your state is assessed before any session resumes.
Therapist alone
Email between sessions. Maybe.Imam alone
WhatsApp, if you have his number.Zaha
One thread. Everyone in the room. Logged. Reviewed. ≤24h reply.Notification on your phone when a client posts. Response within 1 business day. Replies are kept short — under 5 minutes — because this is continuity, not therapy. If something needs to be a session, you say so and offer the next available slot.
Crisis posts (any mention of self-harm, harm to others, imminent risk) page the on-call clinical lead immediately, day or night. You don't reply solo to crisis content; the lead joins.
The provider room — where they coordinate, with your consent.
Therapist and imam have their own private thread inside the same portal. It's where they share notes, flag concerns, and align on the care plan. You don't see the verbatim thread — but you've consented to it, and you can read a redacted summary anytime in your portal.
This is the difference between a "team" on a brochure and a team that actually exists.
All of this lives in HIPAA-compliant infrastructure. The shared room, the provider thread, your clinical record, video sessions — signed BAAs across every vendor we touch. Nothing is held in personal email, personal phones, or unencrypted text. You can request a list of where your data lives, anytime.
- Frequency. The portal shows when each provider last posted to the thread. If it's been more than two weeks, ask why.
- Substance. The redacted summary shows the shape of what they're discussing — goal progress, concerns, asks of each other. Never your verbatim quotes.
- The reviewer. The Zaha clinical lead reads the thread weekly. Their note appears in your view, dated.
Therapist alone
No coordination. No coordination needed.Imam alone
No formal coordination, no record.Zaha
Logged provider thread + redacted summary you can read.Posting cadence: care-plan progress weekly, concerns as they arise, asks of the other provider every 2 weeks or as needed. Don't post verbatim session content; post the shape — goal progress, observations, what you'd like the other provider to hold.
Supervision: the clinical lead reviews flagged threads within 24 hours, samples the rest on a rolling cadence, and audits the full corpus quarterly. Crisis-tagged content pages immediately, day or night. Quality is supervised; nothing is left to assumption. This is also your peer-learning surface — we publish anonymized thread excerpts in monthly provider rounds.
Ask of imam (for midpoint): If natural, anchor reflection in "And remember Me." Aligns with the ladder.Care plan goal 1 (clinical): Yusuf working second pass of grief letter. Concern: Caregiver overload Wed pm. Posted in shared room; addressed.
Ask of imam (for midpoint): Hold mourning practice this week, not movement work. He needs to stay slow.Session 1 outcomes: Couple aligned, articulate, not in crisis. Goals drafted around cultural translation, deen rhythm, financial covenant. Concern: Eid-invitations friction surfaced in shared room — unresolved family loyalty pattern, more under it.
Ask of imam (for session 2): Lead the values-comparison exercise. Anchor on mithaq verse. I'll co-facilitate the cross-cultural piece.
Observed: Strong response to companion stories on imperfection. Plan for midpoint: Anchor on hadith of the man whose wudu was repeated — gently. Will use the verse Mariam suggested.Spiritual goal: permission to grieve as a man, with God in the room.
Observed: Holding too much. Caregiver-as-armor. Plan for midpoint: Slow recitation practice, du'a by name for father. Will hold the mourning frame.Spiritual goal: articulating the household's shared deen rhythm.
Observed: Adnan more practicing-default; Layla more cultural-default. Neither defensive. Both want a real synthesis. Plan for session 2: Walk through the prophetic example of his wives' household differences. Then the values comparison. Will support Hana's lead on cultural translation.
One care plan, in plain language, updated each week.One care plan, in plain language, updated each week.One care plan, in plain language, updated through the program.
Two or three goals (one clinical, one spiritual, sometimes one practical). Each with a percent-complete that you and both providers agree on. Each tagged with which provider holds it — so you know who to bring what to.
This isn't a dashboard with arbitrary feel-good metrics. The numbers come from observable evidence: completed ladders, missed prayers honestly logged, check-in responses.
Therapist alone
"Treatment plan" tucked in a chart you'll never see.Imam alone
No plan. Just conversations.Zaha
Visible plan, three-way ownership, every change tracked.After each session, you update percent-complete in the portal. Percentages are evidence-based — ladder rungs cleared, prayers logged, sleep hours recorded, letter drafts complete — not subjective. The therapist owns the clinical goals; the imam owns the spiritual ones; both can flag the practical goal.
The client sees every change with the provider's name and date. If a number goes down, that's a real signal — we'd rather see it than have it hidden. Honest deltas are how the work shows up.
Your care plan
Week 6 of 12Week 4 of 8After Session 1 of 3The midpoint — one session, with your imam.The midpoint — one session, with your imam.Mithaq has no separate imam-only midpoint.
Halfway through the program, you sit with your imam alone — the one and only imam-led session of the program. Forty-five minutes. Not therapy and not a halaqa — a structured spiritual reflection on the work so far. Your therapist isn't in the room; they get a short readout from the imam afterward, with your consent.
A private check-in opens in your portal a few days before. Five quiet questions, visible only to you and the Zaha clinical lead. If something needs to be raised about either provider or the plan, this is where we surface it — gently, on your timeline.
Halfway through the program, you sit with your imam alone — the one and only imam-led session of the program. Forty-five minutes. Not therapy and not a halaqa — a structured spiritual reflection on the work so far. Your therapist isn't in the room; they get a short readout from the imam afterward, with your consent.
A private check-in opens in your portal a few days before. Five quiet questions, visible only to you and the Zaha clinical lead. If something needs to be raised about either provider or the plan, this is where we surface it — gently, on your timeline.
Mithaq isn't built around a midpoint reflection. The three sessions are equal weight — session 1 sets the frame, session 2 deepens (it's the most intensive), session 3 closes with the covenant. Sheikh Bilal and Dr. Hana are both in the room for all three. There's no imam-only meeting because the covenant is between two people; reflecting on it without your fiancé in the room would defeat the point.
A private check-in still opens in your portal before session 2 — for each of you, separately. Five quiet questions, visible only to you and the Zaha clinical lead. If either of you needs to surface something before the deepest session, this is where it goes.
Therapist alone
"How are we doing?" mid-session question.Imam alone
No formal review.Zaha
Imam-led reflection + a private check-in window before it.Imam: you run this 45-minute session alone with the client. Prep: read the most recent thread post + review the spiritual goals + read the client's check-in answers. Bring one frame and one practice — not five. After the session, write a 100-word readout that the therapist reads before the next weekly session.
Therapist: you aren't in the room. You read the imam's readout afterward. The midpoint week is the imam's session, not yours — the slot is typically used for note-catchup or peer rounds.
No midpoint reflection — all three sessions are joint.
Mithaq's three sessions are equal weight, all four-person rooms, all sixty minutes. Session 2 is the deepest by design, but there's no imam-only meeting — the covenant lives between two people, so the reflection does too. A private check-in still opens for each of you before session 2.
Before the midpoint reflection three days from now —
Five quiet questions. Your answers are visible only to you and the Zaha clinical lead, not your providers, until you say so.
After the midpoint, the work moves wider.After the midpoint, the work moves wider.Mithaq has no second half.
The first half centered on wudu. The second half is the rest of the constellation — prayer-cycle doubt, Qur'an-recitation anxiety, the post-dhikr checking. Mariam runs ERP across the wider system; the imam's midpoint reflection becomes the spiritual frame Aisha carries through six more weeks. Therapy stays weekly. The imam doesn't return until graduation — but the room he set is in every session that follows.
The first half was about naming the loss. The second half is about reorganizing life around it — caregiver patterns, sleep, what to do with his father's voice in the back of his mind. Khalid stays close; Sheikh Idris's midpoint reflection is the verse Yusuf carries through. Three more weeks of weekly therapy — fewer surprises, more consolidation.
Mithaq is three sessions, three weeks apart. There is no separate second half — the work between session 2 and session 3 is the workbook and the shared room: applying what surfaced, drafting the covenant. Then session 3 closes.
Therapist alone
Termination approaches; the spiritual work was never on the page.Imam alone
One conversation. Then nothing structured.Zaha
Therapy continues; the imam's frame stays in the room; both providers reconvene at graduation.Therapist: intensity often picks up after midpoint — clients arrive ready for harder exposures. Don't taper sessions until the last week. Bring graduation into view at week N−2 (give the client time to think about ritual + relapse-prevention before the joint session).
Imam: you don't return until graduation, but the frame you set at midpoint should be visible in the therapist's notes. If you ever want to send a 2-line check-in via the shared room, that's welcome — not required.
No second half — just the run-up to session 3.
Three sessions, three weeks apart. The work between is the workbook (some prompts together, some alone) and the shared room. Then session 3 closes with the covenant.
Second half · therapy focus
Second half · therapy focus
Graduation, and beyond
The work has an end. We mark it. Then there's a quieter tier for the months and years after — because the alumni of a program like this stay in each other's care for a long time.
A graduation — not a discharge.A graduation — not a discharge.Session 3 closes with a written covenant.
The last session is the three of you again. Sixty minutes. The therapist names what changed clinically (with measurements). The imam offers a closing reflection or du'a. And then there's a ritual we ask you to design: a small thing that marks this season ending. A letter to your future self. A specific du'a. A walk you take alone.
The last session is the three of you again. Sixty minutes. The therapist names what changed clinically (with measurements). The imam offers a closing reflection or du'a. And then there's a ritual we ask you to design: a small thing that marks this season ending. A letter to your future self. A specific du'a. A walk you take alone.
Session 3 is the same four-person room as the first two. Sixty minutes. Dr. Hana names what shifted between you across the three sessions. Sheikh Bilal walks through the written covenant the four of you have built — the agreements you'll carry into the nikah and the household after. You read it aloud, together. Then he closes with a du'a for the marriage being formed.
Therapist alone
"Termination session." Reschedule if needed.Imam alone
Whenever it ends, it ends.Zaha
Marked, ritualized, both providers, written closure.Therapist: write a one-page graduation summary. Include clinical measurements (PHQ-9 / GAD-7 deltas, custom outcome metrics for the program), what changed, the relapse-prevention plan, and what you'd want to know if the client returns. Filed in the portal and the clinical record. Imam: write a 200-word spiritual close-out that lives alongside the therapist's summary.
If the client opts into the alumni tier, both summaries become part of their re-engagement file — the next provider (or you, in three months) starts informed.
What you carry forward.What you carry forward.The covenant you wrote together.
ERP ladder cleared 5/5. Wudu repetition: 6.4/wk → 0.8/wk. Three relapse triggers named, with plans. CBT log discontinued.
Grief letter cycle complete. Caregiver-load plan in place with sister. Sleep restored to ≥7h, 6 nights/wk. PHQ-9 dropped 14 → 5.
Frame moved from "perfect wudu" to tawakkul. Two practices stay: the verse you carry, the breath before niyyah. The hadith you'll re-read.
Permission to grieve as a man, in public, with God in the room. Slow dhikr stays. Surah Yaseen on the date each month, unhurried.
Shared decision-making framework written and tested. Cross-cultural translation work named, with three concrete tools (values check, repair script, family-of-origin scoreboard). Communication baseline doubled.
The covenant: household deen rhythm, mosque alignment for the year, written mahr agreement, in-laws covenant, and a closing du'a Adnan will lead at the nikah.
What stays open after the program ends.
The program ends. The relationships don't have to. After graduation you have a standing option: a quiet alumni tier at $60/month that keeps three things alive — one optional therapy session a quarter, one optional imam reflection a quarter, and the shared room (now with slower cadence: replies within 3 business days).
You can pause. You can come back. If you want a full new program later, the door is open and the intake is shorter the second time.
The program ends. The relationships don't have to. After graduation you have a standing option: a quiet alumni tier at $60/month that keeps three things alive — one optional therapy session a quarter, one optional imam reflection a quarter, and the shared room (now with slower cadence: replies within 3 business days).
You can pause. You can come back. If you want a full new program later, the door is open and the intake is shorter the second time.
The covenant has a graduation, not the marriage. Mithaq alumni keep the same alumni tier — $60/month for the couple — but the use case is specific: a quarterly couples-tune-up with Dr. Hana, a quarterly reflection with Sheikh Bilal, and the shared room when something surfaces that you want a third voice on. Many couples re-engage in the first year of marriage. Some come back in year five.
If life calls for the longer marriage program later (Rahma), the door is open and the intake is shorter the second time.
Therapist alone
Start over when you need help again.Imam alone
Hope you can still reach him.Zaha
Standing alumni tier · same pair · slower cadence.From a provider's perspective: 1 alumni session per quarter per client. The alumni tier is subsidized on Zaha's side, not yours — you're paid for the work the same way you are during the program.
Alumni clients sit alongside your active caseload at a slower cadence. Shared-room responses are slower than active programs by design — alumni is for continuity, not crisis. If an alumni client re-enters a full program, they come back to you by default unless either of you requests a change.
After graduation —
- One therapy session per quarter, with your therapist (or a care-led re-match, free)
- One imam reflection per quarter, with your imam (same)
- Shared room stays open · replies within 3 business days
- Annual care-plan review with the Zaha clinical lead, no charge
- Priority re-entry to a full program if life calls for it — intake is shorter the second time
- One therapy session per quarter, with your therapist (or a care-led re-match, free)
- One imam reflection per quarter, with your imam (same)
- Shared room stays open · replies within 3 business days
- Annual care-plan review with the Zaha clinical lead, no charge
- Priority re-entry to a full program if life calls for it — intake is shorter the second time
- One couples session per quarter with Dr. Hana (or a care-led re-match, free)
- One reflection per quarter with Sheikh Bilal — both spouses
- Shared room stays open for both of you · replies within 3 business days
- Annual covenant review — with the Zaha clinical lead, no charge
- Priority intake into Rahma (12-week marriage program) if it's needed in year one or beyond
Care that holds both.
Sixteen stops, three lives, one care plan — fitted to each. This is what we mean.
Start where it makes sense for you.
If something here matches what you've been carrying, the next step is small. Twelve minutes for an intake, a 72-hour window to meet your pair, and a first session within the week.
Or if you're not sure which program fits: read more in Resources · or email us and a real person will reply.