Providing family or couple therapy at Iman Network involves a culturally sensitive approach to addressing relational issues.

Initial Assessment: The therapy process typically begins with an initial assessment session where the therapist gets to know the family or couple, their background, cultural context, and the specific issues they are facing while establishing rapport and trust.

Understanding Cultural Dynamics: Recognizing the importance of cultural factors in shaping family dynamics, the therapist considers the clients’ cultural nuances, particularly within the Islamic framework. This could include understanding gender roles, family hierarchy, and the influence of religious beliefs on relationships.

Collaborative Goal Setting: Together with the family or couple, the therapist identifies goals for therapy. These goals may include improving communication, resolving conflicts, strengthening family bonds, or addressing specific issues such as parenting challenges, financial stress, or intergenerational conflicts.

Applying Islamic Principles: In integrating Islamic principles into therapy, the therapist draws upon teachings from the Quran and Hadith that emphasize compassion, empathy, forgiveness, and mutual respect within relationships. This involves exploring how Islamic values can inform conflict resolution, decision-making, and emotional expression within the family unit.

Communication Skills Training: One key area of focus in family or couple therapy is often improving communication. The therapist teaches communication skills such as active listening, assertiveness, and effective emotional expression tailored to the client’s cultural and religious context.

Conflict Resolution Strategies: Another important aspect of therapy is helping families and couples develop healthy strategies for resolving conflicts and managing disagreements. This involves teaching negotiation techniques, problem-solving skills, and strategies for de-escalating conflicts while upholding Islamic principles of peace and reconciliation.

Cultural Sensitivity: Throughout the therapy process, the therapist maintains cultural sensitivity, respecting the clients’ values, traditions, and religious beliefs. They create a safe, non-judgmental space where clients feel comfortable expressing themselves and exploring sensitive topics.

Follow-Up and Support: Therapy at Iman Network includes follow-up sessions to monitor progress, provide ongoing support, and adjust intervention strategies as needed. The Goal is to empower families and couples to build stronger, healthier relationships that align with their Islamic values and promote overall well-being.

By integrating culturally sensitive approaches with Islamic principles, family and couple therapy at Iman Network aims to strengthen relationships, promote harmony within families, and support individuals in navigating life’s challenges while staying true to their faith.

There is a rise in the number of individuals who become addicts within the United States population. However, many of the programs that exist in the U.S. don’t meet the needs of the addict population. We know that every individual struggling with addiction is unique. And this means that every addiction treatment plan must be unique as well. The substances an individual uses, the severity of the individual addiction, and even individual age, social circumstances, family background, and religion all play important roles in determining what your treatment should look like and what approach should be used. Therefore, our residential addiction treatment program is based on developing a personalized addiction treatment plan for each of the residents. Through the personalized treatment plan that is based on holistic treatment allowing us to address each of a resident’s individual recovery needs and preferences.

• There are numerous advantages to using groups in substance abuse treatment including:
• Provide positive peer support and pressure to abstain from substances of abuse.
• reducing the sense of isolation that most people who have substance abuse disorders experience. At the same time, groups can enable participants to identify with others who are?
•  enabling people who abuse substances to witness the recovery of others.
• helping members learn to cope with their substance abuse and other problems by allowing them to see how others deal with similar problems.
• Provide useful information to clients who are new to recovery.
• Provide feedback concerning the values and abilities of other group members.
• offering family‐like experiences.
• encouragement, coaching, support, and reinforcement, as members undertake difficult or anxiety‐provoking tasks.
• offering members the opportunity to learn or relearn the social skills they need to cope with everyday life instead of resorting to substance abuse.
• effectively confronting individual members about substance abuse and other harmful behaviors.
• allowing a single treatment professional to help several clients at the same time.
• adding needed structure and discipline to the lives of people with substance use disorders, who often enter treatment with their lives in chaos.
• instilling hope, a sense that “If he can make it, so can I.”
• support and encouragement to one another outside the group setting. We offer specialized groups for the residential and outpatient populations. Our group therapy for substance abuse treatment includes:
• Cognitive–behavioral groups which teach individuals to rearrange patterns of thinking and action that lead to addiction.
• Psychoeducational groups which teach individuals about substance abuse.
• Skills development groups which teach individuals to hone the skills necessary to break free of addictions.
• Support groups, where members of the group can support constructive change.
• Interpersonal process group psychotherapy which enables clients to recreate their pasts in the here‐and‐now and rethink the relational and other life problems that they have previously escaped from.
• Specialized Groups in Substance Abuse Treatment
• Relapse Prevention
• Communal and Culturally Specific Groups
• Expressive Groups
• Groups Focused on Specific Problems, and others