We commend you for prioritizing your well-being and seeking support through life’s many issues and challenges.

MCC offers a counseling office that offers marriage and therapy sessions with counselors trained in holistic Islamic psychology. Don’t suffer alone.

Some insurance plans are accepted. At this time, we can accept new clients who reside in California.

MCC offers counseling in partnership with Maristan, a spiritual community wellness center that provides marriage, individual, and family counseling, premarital coaching, consultation, and a psychiatrist (medication management). Counseling fees are payable on a sliding scale.

How to Make An Appointment For Counseling at MCC

1. Make an appointment online to see a Maristan Clinician.
2. Call the Maristan Clinic Coordinator, Jannah Sellars, at (510) 380-7229
3. Email clinic@maristan.org

After completing the intake form online, if you have not heard back within two business days, please email clinic@maristan.org.

Here are other resources to help you get support and other resources for mental well-being. Axis Community Health also offers free rapid mental health treatment to Tri-Valley residents with and without insurance. See here.

General resources:

Muslim therapists outside of Maristan

• Bay Area Muslim Therapists: www.BayAreaMuslimTherapists.org
• Muslim Therapist Directory: https://www.muslimtherapist.directory
• Southern California Muslim Therapists: http://www.socalmuslimtherapists.org/
• Muslim Mental Health national directory: https://muslimmentalhealth.com/directory/
• PsychologyToday.com (use the filters in their search section)
• Khalil Center: https://khalilcenter.com/mental-health-services/counseling-services
• Peace Tree Mental Health: https://www.peacetreementalhealth.com/
• Corner Counseling: https://www.cornercounseling.com/intervention.html
• Dr. Shareh Ghani, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist, in Fremont at Ocean Psychiatry: https://www.oceanpsychiatry.com/provider/shareh-ghani-md

*Please note there are several other websites and resources to find a Muslim therapist or Muslim mental health resources. It can just take some digging through online research and asking around.

Other Muslim-relevant support lines…

• Naseeha 24-Hour Helpline & Live chat
• Amala Hopeline
• Calls for Comfort (Female callers)
• NISA Helpine (Support for Interpersonal Violence. Bay Area specific)
• Naseeha Mental Health (help & text line)
• Maristan Suicide Postvention Resources List

If you cannot afford the therapy, please let Maristan know. MCC is committed to covering any services provided within the community center’s four walls.

Holding Seminars Online For Our Couples & Parents

• – Maristan seminars & workshop recordings: https://mcceastbay.org/maristan
• – Islamic marriage talks & workshops at MCC, please visit: https://mcceastbay.org/marriage
• – Islamic parenting workshops at MCC, please visit: https://mcceastbay.org/parenting

Your Community Cares

At the MCC, we believe we’re more than a masjid: we’re a part of every community member family we proudly serve. As your community center, it’s important to us that we do what we can to support you. For sisters specifically:

• Muslim Mental Health Professional Databases: This reference document helps you independently connect with Muslim clinical practices. Link
• Gems of Light: For problems or questions about Islam, call this womens-only confidential Q&A hotline at (612) 293-5100 from Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CST.
• North American Islamic Shelter for the Abused: To access the services of this women’s shelter in the Bay Area, send a message anytime by emailing info@asknisa.org or by calling the helpline at (888) 275-6472.
• AllyNetwork Mental wellness support for immigrants, asylees, refugees, and immigrant youth in Alameda County. Find a Provider
• Khalil Center The MCC counseling center was formerly run by the Khalil Center, which closed during the pandemic. The Khalil Center continues to provide mental health counseling options via WebTherapy and phone sessions (as well as in person at the MCA Bay Area in San Clara).
• Rana Chawla For heart-centered therapy for couples & individuals: https://rana.clientsecure.me/#services
• Amir Siddiqui Psychotherapist for Couples, Individuals, and Families Divorce Mediator at (313) 296-8734 https://www.therapywithamir.com & https://sessions.psychologytoday.com/mr-amir-ahmed-siddiqui
• Naseeha Mental Health is an organization dedicated to providing essential mental health support to Muslims across North America. Start Online Therapy
• For domestic violence issues, please see here.

Helping Our Youth

For teens struggling with emotional issues or thoughts of suicide, there is hope. Here are teen help lines recommended by Shaykh Rami Nsour:

• Khalil Center: https://khalilcenter.com/crises-helpline
• Stones to Bridges: http://www.stonestobridges.org
• Hopeline: https://www.amalahopeline.com
• Naseeha: https://naseeha.org
• AMALA: https://amala.mas-ssf.org
• Khalil Center Co-Sponsored Talks at the MCC

About Maristan

Maristan’s Mission & Vision: Grounded in Islamic traditions, Maristan aims to lead professional clinical care, education, and research in advancing holistic, mental, and spiritual wellness. Maristan strives to revive the Islamic legacy of research and education that informs holistic healing and provides culturally and spiritually congruent, professional, accessible, and affordable mental health care. Perhaps one of the most unique manifestations of Islamic Civilization is the Maristans, or institutions of healing, that boasted the world’s first treatment centers for treating psychological illnesses.Given the holistic framing of the Islamic worldview, it was no accident that these healing centers embedded the treatment of psychological illnesses into their offerings. In so doing, Maristans became a trademark of the Muslim world and could be found in major metropolitan cities from the 8th Century onwards. These healing institutions forever changed the understanding and treatment of psychological illnesses by first dedicating specialized wards for psychological illnesses within the larger Islamic hospital complex, followed by stand-alone institutions solely dedicated to treating the mentally ill.

• – Learn more at https://maristan.org
• – More Maristan videos at the mosque: https://mcceastbay.org/maristan

Muslim Mental Health Professionals Databases

For Muslims in the Bay Area: Marriage and Family Therapist Rana Yasmin Chawla also offers these services.

Disclaimer: These resources are not intended to be referrals. Instead, they are for you to connect with Muslim clinical practices independently.

• Islamic Psychologists (International)
• Ruh Care: Individual, Couples, & Child/Teen therapy/support
• Find A Therapist: SEEMA
• Muslim Mental Health Referral Network
• Khalil Center
• Mental Health Professionals: Therapy For Muslims
• Mental Health Professionals Directory: Institute for Muslim Mental Health
• IAIP Certified Practitioner Directory 
• Muslim Therapists: Bay Area (California)
• Muslim Therapists: Southern (California)
• Muslim Therapists: DC-Metro Area (DC, Virginia, Maryland
• Muslim Therapists: DFW Texas
• Muslim Therapists: Michigan
• NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness

Our dear community congregation teacher and friend Shaykh Alauddin Elbakri also provides these services via his nonprofit, Tawasaw on these life challenges:

• Faith or Identity crisis
• Doubts about Allah or Islam
• Identity confusion or loss
• Spiritual Depression
• Youth Spiritual Counseling
• Ages 12 + (Parental permission required to book a session)
• Youth faith or identity crisis
• Behavioral Issues such as rebellious or erratic behavior
• ​Loss of Life of a loved one or a child
• For families and individuals who have just lost a loved one or a child
• Parent/Child Counseling
• Helping Children and Parents reconnect and understand each other
• Marital Counseling
• Individual Spouse counseling
• Couples Counseling
• Professional/Work-related issues
• Questions on practicing faith in the workplace

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1 (800)-273-TALK  | Text “Home” to 741741 

1 (866)-NASEEHA | Call/text: 1 (855)-95-amala | Anonymous Online Support: stonestobridges.org

PLEASE NOTE: Our therapists are unable to provide crisis services. If this is a life-threatening emergency, please dial 911 or dial 988 or 1.800.273.8255 for the 24/7 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

Muslim Youth Help Line

#HEREFORYOU
1.866.NASEEHA
https://naseeha.org
Helpline:  1 (866) 627-3342 (NASEEHA)
Available seven days a week (12 p.m. – 9 p.m. EST)​