Starting
Pick a program, answer an intake that takes the faith part seriously, and we do the matching.
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 both seats, time zone, language).
You give us the details. We do the matching. 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 and practical. One form, ~12 minutes.How would you like your spiritual advisor to engage with the clinical work?
The matching
Matched by hand across the clinical and the spiritual. Never an algorithm.
We match you on the details you gave us.
Four things bind every match: the therapist’s state licence, documented experience with what you’re carrying, language, and real schedule overlap. The rest is judgment — chemistry, pace, how a particular advisor’s register lands — and a person weighs it by hand, reading everything you shared. Nothing about the pairing is automated.
The email that says: we found two people who already understand.
A short, warm email with both names, both bios, and a sentence about why this pair — written by a real person and sent from care@zaha.health.
You have 72 hours to accept, see someone else (the next pair comes within a business day), or pause.
We found two people who already understand.
As-salamu alaykum, Aisha. 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.
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.
Any time before your first session you can change therapist, imam, or both — no reason required, no charge, no waitlist. After the first session, swaps go through a clinician’s review and are timed to a natural break, because re-pairing mid-work is hard on everyone.
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 delete them on request.
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.
The beginning
A welcome that isn’t a form, a workbook that isn’t a worksheet, and a first session with both providers at the same table.
A welcome 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 spiritual advisor, and your program workbook — each week pairs a clinical exercise with a spiritual companion on facing pages.
"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."
"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."
The first session is a three-person room.
Sixty minutes, all three of you. The therapist opens with a clinical frame, the imam offers a brief reflection, and you speak first on what you want this season to do. By the end you have two or three goals, a weekly cadence, and clarity on what each provider holds.
Two joint sessions bookend the program — this one and graduation. The midpoint, in between, is held with your imam alone.
The work
Weekly therapy, a shared room between sessions, and your providers coordinating behind the scenes.
A weekly hour of clinical work, honest about its lane.
Therapy is therapy: evidence-based and modality-appropriate for the program. What’s different is that your therapist isn’t tip-toeing around your faith — she has been briefed on it, knows what your imam is preparing for the midpoint, and treats both as load-bearing.
If you named a second language at intake, Arabic phrases and Qur’anic citations stay untranslated where the original carries the meaning, and key fiqh terms can be discussed in that language when it helps. The clinical work itself stays in English.
The shared room, where the three of you keep talking between sessions.
A thread between your therapist, your imam and you, for the small things 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.
It’s not a 24/7 hotline — replies come within one business day — and it’s not therapy or fatwa. It’s continuity.
One exception. Crisis never waits for us: anything about self-harm, harm to others, or imminent risk means 988 or 911 first, every time. Risk content posted in your rooms is routed to your providers the same day, and your safety plan — built with your therapist in week one — is where your crisis numbers already live.
The provider room, where they coordinate with your consent.
Your therapist and spiritual advisor have their own private thread inside the same portal, 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.
- 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. Zaha reads the thread weekly as part of quality review. The note appears in your view, dated.
Therapist alone
No coordination. No coordination needed.Imam alone
No formal coordination, no record.Zaha
Logged provider thread, and a redacted summary you can read.Ask of imam (for midpoint): If natural, anchor reflection in "And remember Me." Aligns with the ladder.
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 Layla suggested.
One care plan, in plain language, updated each week.
Two or three goals — one clinical, one spiritual, sometimes one practical — each with a percent-complete you and both providers agree on, and each tagged with which provider holds it. The numbers come from observable evidence: completed ladders, missed prayers honestly logged, check-in responses.
Your care plan
Week 6 of 12The midpoint, one session with your imam.
Halfway through, you sit with your imam alone for forty-five minutes: not therapy and not a halaqa, a structured reflection on the work so far. Your therapist isn’t in the room; with your consent, they get a short readout afterward.
A private check-in opens in your portal a few days before — five quiet questions, visible only to you and the Zaha care team. If something needs raising about either provider or the plan, this is where it surfaces, on your timeline.
Graduation, and beyond
The work has an end. We mark it, and the door stays open.
A graduation, not a discharge.
The last session is the three of you again. The therapist names what changed clinically, with measurements. The imam offers a closing reflection or du’a. And we ask you to design one small thing that marks this season ending — a letter to your future self, a specific du’a, a walk you take alone.
What you carry forward.
ERP ladder cleared 5/5. Wudu repetition: 6.4/wk → 0.8/wk. Three relapse triggers named, with plans. CBT log discontinued.
Frame moved from "perfect wudu" to tawakkul. Two practices stay: the verse you carry, the breath before niyyah. The hadith you'll re-read.
What stays open after the program ends.
The program ends; the relationships don’t have to. After graduation there is a quiet alumni tier at $60/month: one optional therapy session a quarter, one optional imam reflection a quarter, and the shared room at a slower cadence. You can pause, come back, or start a new program later with a shorter intake.
Individual sessions, for graduates and current clients only. A 50-minute clinical session with your therapist ($180), a 45-minute spiritual-care session with your advisor ($150), or a 60-minute joint session with both ($260), booked from your portal.
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.Care that holds both.
Two providers, one plan, fitted to you. That 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.