Khalil Center

What Khalil Center does

Khalil Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit psychological and spiritual community wellness center operating as a Zakat Foundation project (Tax ID 47-1313957). It self-describes as the largest provider of Muslim mental healthcare in North America. The organization integrates Islamic spiritual traditions with evidence-based psychotherapy, anchored by its proprietary modality TIIP (Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy), which fuses Qur'anic and classical Islamic frameworks with CBT, EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, Gottman couples therapy, and other clinical approaches. TIIP is delivered through the Khalil School of Islamic Psychology & Research, which offers certification, internships, Islamic diplomas, and post-doctoral fellowships.

The organization operates across five primary locations: Chicago (regional hub), Los Angeles, Bay Area, New York, and Toronto, with telehealth services across multiple U.S. states and an international training footprint in Istanbul, Turkey. The core clinical offering includes individual therapy, couples and family counseling, psychiatric services, psychological assessments, premarital coaching, and career counseling, billed through major insurance plans (Blue Cross Blueshield PPO, Cigna PPO, Aetna PPO, UHC PPO) with sliding scale assistance. Secondary revenue streams include TIIP training and certification events ($855–$985 per registrant), community workshops (e.g., $20/person for marriage preparation), and a publication portfolio featuring 'Applying Islamic Principles to Clinical Mental Health Care', 'The Islamic Workbook for Managing Anxiety', the Brill-published 'Psychological Themes in Classical Islamic Literature', and guest editorial work in the Journal of Muslim Mental Health.

Go-to-market is community-led and sales-led, leveraging mosque partnerships, university affiliations, social media, content marketing, and embedded chaplaincy relationships. The customer base is split between individual patients (primary), licensed mental health professionals seeking TIIP certification (secondary), and community members attending educational workshops. The leadership team is doctoral-level, with Executive Director Dr. Hooman Keshavarzi and Deputy/Clinical Director Dr. Fahad Khan anchoring a clinical staff of approximately 25+ named practitioners across locations.

Name

Khalil Center

Legal name

Khalil Center

Website

https://khalilcenter.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Khalil Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating the largest Muslim mental health practice in North America, delivering Islamically integrated psychotherapy through five clinics, telehealth, TIIP certification training, community workshops, and published workbooks across the U.S., Canada, and Turkey.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lombard

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Clinical Mental Health Services: Direct patient care including individual therapy, couples counseling, family therapy, psychiatric services, psychological assessments, and coaching services. Billed through insurance (Blue Cross Blueshield, Cigna, Aetna, United Healthcare) or self-pay with sliding scale financial assistance available.
2. TIIP Training and Certification Programs: Professional education programs offering TIIP certification at multiple levels. Training events include in-person sessions such as the upcoming Istanbul 2026 training with both Level 1 and Level 2 courses priced at $855-$985 USD.
3. Community Education Workshops: Public workshops, seminars, and events on mental health topics including marriage preparation, parenting, anxiety management, and personal development. Events like 'The Marriage Search' workshop priced at $20 per person.
4. Publications: Sale of books and therapeutic workbooks including 'Applying Islamic Principles to Clinical Mental Health Care: Introducing TIIP', 'The Islamic Workbook for Managing Anxiety', and 'Psychological Themes in Classical Islamic Literature: A Primary Source Reader'.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Khalil Center provides Islamically integrated mental health services including individual therapy, couples and family counseling, psychiatric services, psychological assessments, premarital coaching, and career counseling to Muslim and general-population adults, youth, and children across multiple North American locations and via telehealth. It also trains and certifies mental-health professionals in its proprietary Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy (TIIP) modality, runs community education workshops, and publishes books and the peer-reviewed Journal of Muslim Mental Health.

Product overview

Khalil Center operates as a psychological and spiritual wellness center integrating Islamic principles with professional psychology. The organization offers a unified portfolio of mental health services including counseling, psychiatric, and psychological assessment services for individuals, couples, and families. Its signature offering is Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy (TIIP), a proprietary therapeutic modality supported by the School of Islamic Psychology & Research which provides professional education, TIIP certification, and clinical training. Community education programs deliver workshops on topics including anxiety management, marriage, and parenting. The center also produces scholarly publications including books on TIIP methodology, classical Islamic psychology texts, and the peer-reviewed Journal of Muslim Mental Health. TIIP Training events provide in-person certification programs at international locations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• TIIP (Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy): Proprietary psychotherapeutic modality developed by Khalil Center that integrates Islamic spiritual approaches with professional psychology

Products and services

• Mental Health Services Comprehensive psychological, psychiatric, and counseling services for adults, youth, children, couples, and families, integrating Islamic spiritual approaches with professional psychology. Services include therapy, psychiatric medication management, psychological assessments, premarital coaching, career counseling, and religious consultation.
• School of Islamic Psychology & Research Academic home for Khalil Center providing professional education, clinical training, and research opportunities including TIIP certification, internships, Islamic diplomas, and post-doctoral fellowships for mental health professionals.
• TIIP Certification Program Multi-level training and certification program for Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy (TIIP), Khalil Center's signature modality combining Islamic principles with modern clinical interventions; offered to licensed therapists, psychologists, counselors, and social workers.
• Community Education Workshops Community workshops, seminars, events, classes, and online courses on marriage, parenting, anxiety management, and personal development from an Islamic perspective; held at mosques, Islamic centers, and online.
• Applying Islamic Principles to Clinical Mental Health Care: Introducing TIIP (Book) Foundational text outlining the structured articulation of Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy (TIIP), providing theoretical foundations, practical interventions, and case studies for mental health practitioners.
• Psychological Themes in Classical Islamic Literature: A Primary Source Reader (Book) Book published by Brill presenting translated and annotated segments from classical Islamic texts addressing human psychology, covering topics including the psyche, emotions, dreams, resilience, and well-being; edited by Hooman Keshavarzi, Khalid Elzamzamy, Bilal Ali Ansari, and Aamir Azhar Zaidi.
• The Islamic Workbook for Managing Anxiety Self-help workbook for managing anxiety, worry, and stress rooted in Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy (TIIP), integrating Islamic traditions with modern psychological literature.
• TIIP Training Events In-person professional training programs offering TIIP certification at multiple levels for mental health professionals, conducted at the historic Darüşşifa at Süleymaniye in Istanbul, Turkey and other locations.
• Research Publications and Journal of Muslim Mental Health Academic research output including peer-reviewed journal articles on Islamic psychology, Muslim mental health, and Islamically integrated therapeutic approaches, published through the peer-reviewed Journal of Muslim Mental Health.

Quantifiable outcome

• Largest Muslim mental health provider in North America

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ISAR (Islamic Research Center)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022ISAR, an Islamic research center in Istanbul, Turkey, co-sponsored and hosted the 2022 international symposium on 'The intersection of Islamic Studies and Contemporary Psychology' with Khalil Center. The symposium was held at ISAR's campus in Uskudar, Istanbul.
• Ibn Haldun UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Hooman Keshavarzi serves as a visiting scholar for Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul, Turkey, and the university has academic affiliations with Khalil Center through program partnerships.
• Graduate Program PartnersminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerKhalil Center maintains partnerships with graduate programs including Hamad Bin Khalifa University College of Islamic Studies (Qatar) for their Masters in Counseling Islamic Psychology Program. They also have relationships with multiple universities for student training and internship programs.
• Claritas BooksminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThird-party distributor for Khalil Center publications including 'The Islamic Workbook for Managing Anxiety'. Available for purchase through Claritas Books online bookstore.
• Hartford SeminaryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDr. Hooman Keshavarzi serves as adjunct faculty at Hartford Seminary, supporting academic collaboration and education in Islamic psychology.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Cerebral: Cerebral is a telehealth mental health platform offering therapy and medication management. Comparable in the medication-management and virtual-therapy overlap with Khalil Center's psychiatric services line, though it operates at a broader, less specialized positioning.
• Octave: Octave is a multi-state mental health practice group offering in-person and virtual therapy with insurance contracts. Comparable as an emerging operator building a scaled mental health clinic model, intersecting with Khalil Center's hybrid in-person/telehealth, insurance-based delivery.
• Ayana Therapy: Ayana Therapy is a culturally focused therapy matching platform for clients of color and marginalized identities. Comparable as an emerging player pursuing the same cultural-competence differentiation that Khalil Center pursues along religious lines.
• Therapy for Black Girls: Therapy for Black Girls is a community and provider-matching platform centered on culturally affirming mental health care for Black women. Comparable as a community-led, culturally specific mental health brand addressing a structurally underserved population in a similar way.

Broad incumbents

• Lyra Health: Lyra Health is a large mental-health benefits platform serving employers with culturally matched therapist networks. Comparable as a broader incumbent increasingly investing in culturally competent matching that overlaps with Khalil Center's positioning.
• BetterHelp: BetterHelp is the largest general-purpose online therapy platform connecting users with licensed counselors. It is a broad incumbent that increasingly overlaps with culturally specific matching, competing for the same patient dollars on convenience and price.
• Alma: Alma is a network and software platform helping independent mental health practices accept insurance and grow. It is an enabling incumbent that supports similar clinician-led mental health practices like Khalil Center with billing, credentialing, and patient matching infrastructure.
• Talkspace: Talkspace is an established virtual therapy and psychiatry platform with insurance partnerships. It is comparable as a broad telehealth mental health incumbent that competes for the same in-network patient base Khalil Center serves via BCBS, Cigna, Aetna, and UHC.

Direct peers

• Maristan: Maristan is a Muslim-focused mental health platform offering culturally competent therapy, training, and community education. It is the closest direct peer to Khalil Center given its shared faith-integrated therapeutic model and emphasis on destigmatizing mental health in Muslim communities.
• Muslim Wellness Foundation: Muslim Wellness Foundation provides culturally and spiritually informed mental health programming, education, and referrals for American Muslim communities. Highly comparable to Khalil Center in mission, faith integration, and community-education focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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