Resources · Convert Care & Mental Health

Needing Help Is Not
Weak Faith

Somewhere along the way many of us absorbed the idea that a strong Muslim does not struggle, and that needing help equals weak īmān. It does not. Our tradition built hospitals (maristans) for the care of the mind more than a thousand years before Europe treated mental illness as medical at all. Seeking care has always been part of how Muslims live, not evidence against faith.

If you need someone now

Help that answers tonight

24/7 · Free · Anonymous

Naseeha Mental Health

Free, anonymous, and culturally sensitive peer support by phone, text, and online chat, for Muslims and for anyone in need, across North America.

1-866-NASEEHA1-866-627-3342

A note on care

If you are in immediate danger, or thinking of harming yourself, please do not wait. Call 911 or your local emergency services, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the United States, or reach Naseeha at 1-866-627-3342. You are worth the call.

Nothing on this page is medical or psychological advice, and this project is a research initiative rather than a clinical one. What follows are organizations doing this work, offered so that you have somewhere to begin looking rather than a search engine. Fit between a person and a clinician is real, and finding the right one sometimes takes more than one try. That is normal, and it is not your failure.

Where to Look

Organizations doing this work

Two of these I can speak to from direct experience, and they are marked. The others are included because they are established, Muslim-centered, and doing work converts need, not because I have been their client. I would rather tell you exactly where my knowledge ends than imply a closeness I do not have.

Whole-person care rooted in the Prophetic tradition and the wisdom of the sages, our approach integrates sacred medicine, drawing from the Holy Qurʾan and Tibb al-Nabawi, with modern wholistic healing sciences.

Forward To Health

A Muslim owned and operated sanctuary for whole-person care where body, mind, and spirit are seen, heard, and held. Dr. Mazen’s signature Re-membering the Heart™ Healing is a trauma-informed, wholistic, relational-oriented, somatic-based healing method. This service is offered by Dr. Mazen Atassi, ND and Tabiba Maria Bachiri, M.A., DHNM, CTP, FNLP, SEP.

Vetted through direct experience
Re-membering the Heart™

Six-week online courses

Re-membering the Heart™ for Muslim Men: A Brotherhood Healing Journey

Six weeks · online

Offered by Dr. Mazen Atassi, ND

Course for men

Re-membering the Heart™ for Muslim Women: A Sisterhood Healing Journey

Six weeks · online

Offered by Tabiba Maria Bachiri, M.A., DHNM, CTP, FNLP, SEP

Course for women

Psychological · psychiatric · counseling

The Khalil Center

Psychological, psychiatric, and counseling services rooted in an Islamic understanding of the human being. The Khalil Center serves adults, youth, children, couples, and families.

Mental health services

24/7 helpline · phone, text, and chat

Naseeha Mental Health

A 24/7 Muslim mental health helpline serving North America. They offer free, anonymous, and culturally sensitive peer support by phone, text, and online chat, for Muslims and for anyone in need.

Helpline and textline1-866-NASEEHA

Convert mentorship · publications · workshops

Rabata Convert Care

At Rabata, new and veteran convert Muslim women bring their whole selves to Islam. Through publications, workshops, and mentorship, Rabata provides a place where Islamic education, spiritual upbringing, and community care intersect for wholesome, joyful living. Anse Eman Manigat is Rabata’s Convert Care Coordinator as well as a Psychotherapist and Chaplain with Ruh Care.

Vetted through direct experience
Convert Care

Online therapy · licensed Muslim therapists

Ruh Care

An online therapy platform that connects users to licensed Muslim therapists by phone and live video chat, which can matter a great deal if there is no Muslim clinician within driving distance of where you live.

Visit Ruh Care

One more thing

My research documents what converts carry: rejection from family, coldness from community, isolation, and loss without replacement. If any of that is yours, you are not imagining it and you are not alone in it. 459 women said so.