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CULTURALLY MATCHED THERAPY — DIASPORA FIRST

Therapy without translation.

Talk to someone who shares your language, your origin, and the context you would otherwise spend the first three sessions explaining.

Find your therapist
Meet our therapists
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Our purpose

The words you shouldn't have to explain first

Every one of these words has a dictionary translation. None of those translations tells the whole story.

Arabic word حشومة written in black on a white background

ḥshouma

Shame

Not simply shame. A whole architecture of what is acceptable, what is not, and who is watching while you decide.

Arabic word نية

niya

Good intentions

Closer to a sincerity—or innocence—you are expected to preserve, and may be quietly blamed for losing.

ṣabr

Patience

Arabic text that reads ' patience'

Endurance with faith attached. Waiting is not passive, and giving up can carry a meaning of its own.

Arabic text written on a light background

mektub

Fate

What is already written. It can bring comfort, but it can also end a conversation you still need to have.

Some things do not survive translation.

For many people in the diaspora, therapy begins with explaining the language, then the family, the faith—or the distance from it—and why a decision that appears simple from the outside is anything but simple.

By the time the context is understood, much of the session is already gone.

Asli exists to change that: connecting you with therapists who understand more of where you are coming from, so you can spend less time translating yourself and more time talking about what actually matters.

Asli means original, authentic, from the root.

That is our purpose: care that begins closer to yours.

— The Asli team

How Asli works

Matched on origin, language, and context.

Where you are from, the languages you actually think in, and what you want to work through. Five minutes, and nothing you have to justify.

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First

Tell us who you are

Then

We match you to a therapist

After that

You meet online

Qualified practitioners who share your origin and speak your language: Darija, Tamazight, Arabic, French or English. A person reviews every match.

Wherever you are in the diaspora, sessions happen privately and on your schedule. No waiting list at a clinic that does not have anyone who fits.

Our therapists

Meet our therapists

Qualified practitioners who share your origin and work in the language you think in. You will not be handed to whoever is free — a person reads your answers and chooses.

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    Therapist name

    PSYCHOLOGIST ● unavailable

    WORKS IN Darija, French

    FROM Morocco

    BASED IN Casablanca

    Two or three sentences in their own voice — what they work with, who they tend to see, and the thing a client would want to know before booking. view profile

    Book a session
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    Therapist name

    PSYCHOTHERAPIST ● available

    WORKS IN Arabic, French, English

    FROM Tunisia

    BASED IN Paris

    Two or three sentences in their own voice — what they work with, who they tend to see, and the thing a client would want to know before booking. view profile

    Book a session
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    Therapist name

    NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST ● available

    WORKS IN Darija, Tamazight

    FROM Morocco

    BASED IN Rabat

    Two or three sentences in their own voice — what they work with, who they tend to see, and the thing a client would want to know before booking. view profile

    Book a session

Find your therapist

Tell us who you would want to talk to.

Six questions, about five minutes. A person reads every answer and comes back to you with a therapist who fits — origin, language, and the context you would rather not have to explain.

Start — six questions

We use your answers to match you and to reply to you. Nothing else, and nothing shared.