Testimonials
Islamic Counseling & Therapy
Ustadha Naielah Ackbarali is a professional therapist. Had an amazing and interactive anxiety sessions with her. Her approach is unique. She helped me identify anxiety triggers and gave me the tools, techniques and strategies to help ease anxiety that l will carry with me in life. Alhamdhullilah l’m doing much better and enjoying my life again. Will highly recommend her.
~Rahma, USA
Naiela is the best Counsellor I have ever used! She is extremely professional, attentive and cares about you deeply. She is the only person I have felt outside of my family that I have felt so comfortable with!! She has helped me so much with my self-worth, relationships and belief. I’m so grateful to Allah that he answered my dua with finding a therapist that could help me!
~Aisha, UK
Ustadha Naielah Ackbarali is kind, thorough, an enabler and encourages one to think deeply, reflect and use the heart as as a compass. I also really value that Ustadha is highly knowledgeable about the Deen and learned in Islamic Sciences. She has put a lot of time in studying behavioural sciences and I feel this knowledge transpires through her books and sessions with compassion, deep thought and kindness. Would recommend Ustadha for various topics as she is so committed to her work and this shines through 🙂 May Allah swt put barakah in Ustadha’s work and everyone’s journey, ameen.
~Rubina, UK
Ustadha Naielah is truly remarkable and empathetic. I deeply appreciate her commitment to uncovering the root causes of my issues during each session. She emphasises that merely addressing surface problems won’t lead to lasting solutions, which is why it’s essential for us to dig deeper together.
Her support extends beyond simple encouragement; she genuinely understands my struggles and guides me to realise important truths. One key insight she has shared is that running away is not always the best solution. There is always a way to face obstacles, and we must not give up. I also value how she incorporates Islamic values into our sessions, which resonates with my cultural background and makes me feel truly heard.
Ustadha Naielah’s empathy inspires me to continue searching for solutions, reminding me that I am not alone in facing difficulties, no matter how daunting they may seem. Her holistic approach not only addresses my emotional needs but also empowers me to navigate life’s challenges with confidence and resilience.
I wholeheartedly recommend her to any sisters who are facing difficulties; her insightful guidance can truly transform your journey toward healing and self-discovery.
~FZ, UK
Naielah is masha’Allah truly wonderful to work with in every way! She listens with great care and also remembers details which may come up again in later sessions, which I really appreciated as this was quite important in my case. I also appreciate the fact that where appropriate (and without ‘taking over’ as some therpists might do) Naielah shares examples from her own life which I found extremely helpful in my particular situation because it provided me with some much-needed clarity. Finally I am really grateful for all the follow-up emails containing session notes and additional information, as I have often needed to refer back to them when I’ve found myself to be in a muddle! I honestly can’t thank Naielah enough for all her help, I pray that Allah blesses her for everything she has done for me.
~Rabia, UK
Mashallah. Excellent service for all. Naielah brings a warmth and practicality that everyone needs.
~Aaleyah, Australia
Recommend highly for anyone seeking faith centered counselling.
~Nabeela, UK
Sister Naeilah has been amazing as a counselor to help me through my traumatic grief and bereavement. Her wisdom and guidance and giving me a safe space to be me is not only helpful to my healing journey but by giving me practical tools and exercises to allow me to work through my grief journey. She’s been amazing and always available- I wouldn’t be where I am today without her huge support and guidance. Her amazing words of encouragement and framing how my mind thinks, allows me to make sense of a grief I’ve never experienced before. Highly recommend.
~Sam, UK
SubhanAllah, my experience with Ustadha Naielah has been truly unique and one that I will cherish forever. I have known Ustadha for just over two years, and during this time, she has been a constant source of wisdom, guidance, and support throughout my journey of looking for a spouse and also navigating personal challenges.
From the very beginning, she helped me identify what to look for in a husband and how to approach marriage meetings with clarity and confidence. When I found a potential suitor, we participated in her premarital counselling sessions, which I cannot recommend enough to anyone considering marriage. The sessions were eye-opening and gave deep insight into compatibility, communication, and how we would handle real-life scenarios together. Ustadha made the discussions engaging, practical, and even enjoyable.
By the qadr of Allah, my engagement did not continue, but I was able to make this decision with the support and guidance of Ustadha. Alongside premarital counselling, I was also taking part in her Islamic Therapy & Counselling sessions to navigate personal challenges, which she has been incredibly helpful with. Later when I began having doubts about my fiance, she helped me break things down, validating my concerns and encouraging me to trust my gut instincts. Her extensive experience of 15+ years working with couples was invaluable – she often shared real-life cases of those who ignored red flags, later faced difficulties in marriage, or even separated.
Her wisdom helped me realise the weight of my concerns and ultimately saved me from potentially entering an unhappy marriage. I am incredibly grateful for her support and would highly recommend her services to anyone seeking clarity in their marriage journey or personal growth. Marriage will never be perfect, but Ustadha has helped me gain clarity on what truly matters – prioritising my core values and trusting my gut instincts. One of the most impactful exercises she guided me through was recognising the signs of when I’m ignoring my gut. This has given me a new level of self-awareness, and in’sha’Allah, I will approach future decisions with greater mindfulness and confidence.
Islam teaches us about the importance of istishara before istikhara – I would absolutely consult Ustadha again in the future when choosing a spouse. May Allah bless her efforts and continue to benefit others through her work. I am so grateful for my experience with Ustadha, Alhamdulillah 💛
~Mehvish, UK
Muslim Couples Counseling & Coaching Reviews
Sister Naielah has been both our marriage coach and my personal coach for over a year now, and we cannot express how much she has improved our marriage. My husband and I have worked with many counselors and therapists, but we both truly feel that Naielah is the best. She is very knowledgeable, truly understands your concerns, listens with care and attention, and always provides amazing feedback and solutions. The best part is that she incorporates Islam and the teachings of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW) into her guidance.
I have already recommended her to many people, and I’m so grateful that Allah guided me to her. Additionally, during our sessions, we can genuinely feel that she cares about us. It’s clear that this isn’t about her making money, but that she truly wants the best for her clients. Alhamdulillah. Thank you for all you do, Naielah. May Allah bless you with more success, happiness, and immense peace.
~Warisa, USA
I can confidently say this was one of my best coaching experiences I’ve had. I felt like this session came with a tailor-fit, guided action plan for us. This made the session feel a lot more personal to our circumstances and it didn’t feel like we got generic advice that would apply to all couples.
~Husband, USA
You were fantastic at ‘pulling the reins back’ when we started waffling ahead. Absolutely loved that and know that it is crucial to keep the session focused and on track. We both found the session incredibly beneficial and look forward to future sessions with you.
~Husband, UK
I am so happy my husband did the session! I think that alone already benefited him so much. He told me he now understands and I was like I’ve been trying to explain that for 5 years!
~Wife, USA
I liked the model/approach. Step-by-step. Drill in each step of the way. Alhamdulillah seems effective in surfacing the core issues.
~Husband, UK
I just wanted to thank you for all the extra effort you’re putting in, going back and forth between my husband and I…..his attitude has improved so much. So alhamdulillah and thank you!
~Wife, USA
Muslim Premarital Counseling & Coaching Reviews
I can not recommend sister Naielah enough, it was lovely to work with her in our premarital counselling sessions. She is incredibly easy to talk to, non-judgmental and has endless tips as well as anecdotes to illustrate her teaching. Anyone looking to do their nikkah and contemplating pre-marital counselling… do it!! Without a doubt a great way to form the foundation of a healthy marriage inshallah and Naielah facilitates some really great (and important) conversations. The hour long sessions would fly-by as she has a way of describing ideas and concepts that keeps you engaged (as well as actively participating). I really appreciate the help she has given us and hope that more people can utilise service like this that only help strengthen a marriage!
~Zarah Z, UK
Our experience with Sister Naielah has been nothing short of remarkable. We had a total of four premarital sessions and each one was better than the last. We were able to connect teachings and practices to ‘our why’ and most importantly, to Islam and how Allah has ordained marriage. We can’t recommend this enough. Jazak Allah khayran, Sister Naielah.
~Toks, Canada
Sister Naiela is a wonderful coach. Her approach is compassionate and insightful, offering practical tools that helped us improve communication and deepen our connection. We gained a clearer understanding of each other and now feel more equipped to navigate future challenges together. Alhamdulillah. I would recommend Muslima Coaching for everyone and anyone looking to strengthen their relationship!
~Abdul Husien, USA
I highly recommend Naielah’s premarital coaching. She provided a warm and friendly atmosphere and allowed us to share our views and concerns. She provided us with adequate tips and guidance on how to have a successful marriage. She’s the best!
~Yasmin, UK
Our experience with sister Naielah premarital counseling sessions were very helpful and provided a great insights on what we are doing well and what we need to work on or discuss more of before our Nikah. We highly recommended for future couples.
~Audrey, USA
My wife to-be and I attended this course and found it very insightful. The homeworks were very useful and helped us understand more about each other. We would encourage anyone who wants to get married soon to attend.
~Hamza, UK
I had the absolute privilege of attending Ustadha Naielah’s premarital coaching about 9 months ago, and I can say without hesitation that it was one of the best decisions we made. From the very beginning, she went above and beyond in providing invaluable insights into both my now-husband’s and my personalities, enabling us to better understand each other. Her approach is so balanced—she listens to both sides, helping each of us gain a deeper appreciation of the other’s perspective and always making the guidance Islam-centric. Thanks to her thoughtful guidance, we felt more confident in our ability to build a successful marriage. In fact, the session was so beneficial that we booked an additional one!
What stands out the most is Ustadha Naielah’s ability to create a safe space for difficult conversations—ones that many couples tend to avoid but are essential for a healthy, lasting relationship. Her gentle yet firm approach gave us the tools to navigate challenging discussions with clarity and compassion.
I would wholeheartedly recommend her premarital coaching for any couple looking to prepare for marriage. Her knowledge, experience, and dedication to helping others shine through in everything she does. Beyond premarital coaching, I also reached out to her for guidance on haidh fiqh, and she was incredibly patient, generous with her knowledge, and supportive in addressing my concerns.
Ustadha Naielah has a wealth of wisdom, and I cannot recommend her enough. I would certainly consider taking further courses with her in the future. She has such a beautiful, calm personality that creates an atmosphere of trust and learning. Thank you, Ustadha Naielah, for all your help, patience and support!!!
~Saima, UK
Ustadha Naielah‘s premarital counselling sessions are highly beneficial. I would recommend. I was able to gain more insights into ways to build a healthy and lasting marriage. Thanks for making the sessions enjoyable.
~Oyindamola, UK
My main takeaway was the fact that all the sessions were well-designed and organized in a way that all the main topics were talked about and we were also given the option to add our own topics. I also learnt a lot from case studies and it was nice that both people’s opinions were taken on those topics. I would definitely recommend the program to others. I think this is something everyone should go through because people can easily be shy to bring up certain topics with their potential spouse.
~USA
I absolutely would recommend the Premarital Program and coaching to others. The content that was discussed in the sessions are all very important things that should be discussed prior to thinking of getting married to someone. It’s so important to ask these questions/discuss things such as family planning, money, conflict resolution, in-laws, values, etc prior to marriage so I am very grateful to sister Naielah for asking it in a way where I felt comfortable enough to be raw and honest and open to hearing what the other had to say as well. I firmly believe that doing the premarital program helped to build that healthy foundation. Alhamdullilah, grateful to have found this program.
~USA
These sessions taught me a lot about communication styles and how to effectively communicate with your partner. It also taught me about learning the others’ differences and adapting your way of thinking/behaving based on this. Naielah was very informative and has a great way of coaching while still remaining fun and lighthearted. I think other young, newly married or about-to-be married couples can benefit from this program.
~Canada
Thank you so much for your time and help. We highly valued our time together. We definitely plan on reconnecting with you in the future, and give recommendations to others about you!
~USA
Inspiring
Affordable
“The service you offer is excellent mashallah and is of great value.”
Practical
“This experience has been fantastic, I have learnt so much from the coach, and looking back in retrospect I have made so many mistakes in talking to guys, main one being, ‘just expecting them to know’, without explaining, and also, my lack of understanding of how men truly work. Looking at how you have helped me, this advice is good in just how to understand men better and how they think. It’s been hands on, practical, and applicable to Muslims, which a book doesn’t give you.”
“All marriages need work and Muslima Coaching gives great advice for any woman wanting to improve and maintain a good marriage and home.”
Newfound Hope
“I had just accepted that my marriage was the way it was, and there was nothing I could do about it, so I forced myself to be happy and live with it. Now I know there are a list of things I can improve on to get a better marriage! And I feel like I have hope now, alhamdulillah. All the practical advice given on different situations are like wow, subhanAllah, is it really just as simple as that! Why did I make it so hard for myself all those years!”
Openings
“I’ve been married for almost 20 years, and I feel like this is the first time I’m learning how to be a wife.”
Truth
“I just finished reading the blog post today and I was so amazed at how beautiful, simple, and wise your advice is. I think any sensitive woman that’s been married for more than a few years can attest to its truths. MashAllah la quwatta illa billah. And I was so awestruck, and I kept thinking how needed and valuable this information is, and I doubt that there is anything similar on the web.”
Fresh Ideas
“I love the blog posts. I have gained a lot of value from them! Alhummdulilah I’ve been very happily married for over 8 years with many external struggles during that time but still very much in love. Muslima Coaching is helping not only those with marital problems but those who are very happy in their marriages too.”
Reminders
“What really happens with me is put in a few paragraphs in your articles. Muslima Coaching has motivated me to practice the advice proposed as we can unknowingly put ourselves in a serious vicious circle. We do not realise that we repeat the same behaviour again and again. Sometimes we need someone to remind us.”
Islamic Nasiha
“I just wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for starting and maintaining this website. May Allah reward you and give you barakah in it. I love the fact that the advice here comes from the perspective of religion, from a desire to please Allah subhana tala in marriage, and at the same time takes into account and directly addresses the challenges we face in our times. Also, there is great comfort in having the coaching option available for people who might need it.”
Personal Improvement
“I found the course extremely beneficial as I saw areas in my marriage that I could improve on, such as the way I expressed myself, the way I would think about things. Marriage is work, and so its always useful to be reminded of things that you can do to make it a successful one. Even if your marriage is a good one, it will still help.”
Increased Intimate Connection
“Learning about the male attributes and what it takes to be feminine has been so valuable and essential for harmonious married life and helps to keep the marriage strong after 4 kids! The tips at Muslima Coaching has to offer certainly work! I am very grateful for having had the opportunity to learn from Muslima Coaching and already see the beneficial effects in my own marriage. JazakilLahu khairan!”
Breakthroughs
“I have honestly had such a different outlook since the session alhamduLillah. I have had less stress and worry as I always have and just felt more free than I have with regards to myself. I can’t tell you enough what the one-on-one session and the marriage classes have done for me. I’m almost like a new person. It is like I had blinkers on my eyes and by the grace of Allah swt was helped to remove them and see the blessings Allah swt has so generously bestowed upon me. I’m sure if you asked my husband he could vouch for how much I’ve changed.”
Marital Makeovers
“Before Muslima Coaching my marriage did not have a soul, we would both just play our roles and keep going on with life, it always felt like something was missing. “Where was my happily ever after?” I kept thinking. Through Muslima Coaching I have learned to see my marriage as an act of worship, seeing it as thus has helped reduce hurt feelings and has made the journey worthwhile because I remind myself that I am not dealing with my husband but rather with Allah, and it can all be a means of gaining a high rank with Him. Ever since I was a child I always dreaded conflict, I never knew how to handle them and this carried on into my marriage. But Alhumdullilah, Allah guided me to Muslima Coaching where I learned that conflict is not always bad, that knowing myself and being aware of my emotions can help me react in a way that is pleasing to Allah. Wait so I don’t have to throw a tantrum and think it’s the end of the world?! No! I can actually use the conflict to draw closer to Allah and grow more intimate with my husband! I still have a long way to go but I am hopeful that through Allah’s help and the tools I have received through Muslima Coaching things will only get better from here on inshaAllah. May Allah grant every woman the ability to make her home a safe haven for her husband and children, so that we can raise a generation that is pleasing to Allah. Aameen”
Encouragement
“I whole heartedly recommend this class because it teaches a married Muslim woman how to be a wife. This knowledge is crucial not just for newlyweds but also those who have been married for several years. By following the clear steps and easy examples laid out by the coach, a wife will be able see step-by-step changes and improvements in her marriage and will gain her husband’s love and devotion. She will be able to improve her conduct in her relationship with her husband and insha’Allah be able to gain Allah’s pleasure. I was able to see how successful marriages use a different set of skills than we use in our daily lives, and the coach gave us many pointers on how to hone those skills. We all know that men are different but most of us don’t know how to act on that belief. The coach was able to give us the knowledge on how we are different and how to use those differences to our advantage in order to gain Allah’s pleasure. I liked the coach’s action-oriented approach. She was positive throughout the sessions and made me believe that there is no problem that cannot be resolved or overcome in one’s marriage if one has a sincere intention to improve one’s relationship with one’s husband.”
“I’ve been trying to read everything you’re posting because I find the articles effective and clarifying. A hard part of wanting a good marriage is the idea some of us might have that ‘I’m working so, so, so hard to change, and trying so hard in every which way to be absolutely good, so when I fail, why should someone else tell me that everything I’m doing is wrong?’ Your articles entirely take the middleman out of the picture and help sisters help themselves and understand for THEMSELVES how to make their marriages good without feeling offended. And your articles leave aside the idea of “perfection” which I’ve felt from other self-help guides. “Either you’ve got it or you don’t” seems to be a pitfall, where some just give up because they are not perfect and cannot change overnight. You acknowledge that success means mistakes along the way, and not to give up hope, but to keep one’s eyes on the prize, even when we make mistakes. May Allah give you tawfeeq.”
Cleared Misconceptions
“Now step by step I have the keys to open the doors to a beautiful life with my husband and children. Muslima Coaching has helped me to understand my husband and my role as a woman and wife and has thus cleared all my misconceptions of what marriage is. Every woman needs to do this course, I have learnt so much!”
Tapping Into Feminine Power
“The course is a true gem and eye opener. While doing the program will definitely make a positive difference to marriages that are going through hard times, the program is also extremely beneficial to those who are looking to improve themselves or their marriage even more! If only I had this type of valuable information my first year of marriage I would have avoided so many unnecessary problems. This program raised my awareness as a woman and the power of the feminine. It enables women to understand their husband and how to express themselves to him in a way that maintains self respect. The best part is it is all done within Islamic context and refocuses our hearts to the real reason were learning how to improve our marriages: to Please Allah! Finally, I know how to be the best woman and wife I can because this program has provided me with tools that are achievable and realistic but what surprised me is it is also fun because you see results almost immediately Alhumdulilah!”
Guidance For Newlyweds
“This course shows you a way of living that not only leads you towards a happy marriage but guides you on how to please Allah. Taking this course well early on in my marriage helped me understand things about my husband, which there is no way I could’ve even guessed before. The coach provides us with insights on this topic and gives practical examples of what to do in specific situations that not only helped me with my marriage but helped me with my all my relationships; as she says: “You can’t change others but you can change yourself.” The tips she explains are so simple yet so powerful!”
Free Advice
“Thanks so much – jazaki Allahu khair – for posting the audio for us to listen at our own pace and often and whenever we want. I really want to be an awesome wife and have a really good marriage, so I’m looking forward to putting in practice more and more of what I learn from the audios and from your website.”
