We provide Islamic Counselling: a therapeutic approach that intelligently blends faith and science.

Are you eligible for our services?

We provide up to 18 sessions, each 50 minutes long, of free multi-lingual faith-based counselling to adults who are looking to address specific issues with their mental health.

We currently provide services to residents of Birmingham and London. If you fall outside of any of these groups but are interested in accessing Islamic Counselling, please email us and we will keep you updated as we expand. If you would like to help us in our efforts to reach more people who can access our services, please take a look at how you can support us.

For those impacted by COVID-19.

The coronavirus has changed our lives in unimaginable ways. Muslim BAME communities have been particularly hard hit by sudden bereavements, stressful and isolating living situations, and long term unknowns that can create great anxiety. This naturally impacts our mental health and can feed into any pre-existing fears and obsessive-compulsive behaviour, and may also re-ignite traumatic memories from the past. Islamic Counsellors can provide a deep understanding of both the emotional and spiritual aspects of your current concerns, and guide you as you go about addressing them. Funded in part by the National Lottery Community Fund.

For people in London and Birmingham.

People living in London, Birmingham, and surrounding areas and struggling with their mental health are eligible for support from us. We are now working with East London NHS Trust and Compass Wellbeing to provide free counselling support to residents of Newham, Tower Hamlets, and Hackney. We can provide professional counselling services in English,Turkish, Bangla, Sylheti, Urdu, and Punjabi. Our trained, professional, and experienced counsellors are fully qualified to help support people with anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, bereavement, domestic abuse and interpersonal relationship issues.

What are our services?

We currently provide:

  • Confidential Islamic Counselling for adult (18+) members of specific communities and groups in the UK who have pressing needs requiring the services of trained mental health professionals.

  • Up to 18 sessions with an individually matched counsellor fully trained in our unique accredited Islamic Counselling methodology. Each session is 50 minutes long and will be scheduled once per week.

  • Sessions in multiple languages: at the moment we have counsellors fluent in English, Urdu, Pahari/Mirpuri, Bengali, Turkish, and Spanish.

  • Sessions scheduled at a time that suits you, carried out over the telephone or via video-calling services (e.g. Zoom). When we are sure it is safe to do so we will resume in-person sessions.

  • We use a wait-listing system to ensure that despite high demand and limited resources, we can provide high quality free Islamic counselling to as many people as possible..

Unfortunately we cannot at the present time provide our services for:

  • Children under the age of 18. We are currently working on effectively providing this option.Please sign up to our newsletter for updates.

  • Those with more complex mental health conditions such as Bipolar Affective Disorder, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Psychosis, or Personality Disorders. If you require clarification on this point please email us.

  • Individuals who do not fall into one of our focus groups. We are currently funded specifically to work with these groups and cannot allocate those resources elsewhere. We are currently working on getting the funding to run a more general service. For more information about our funding please email us.