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About
About Rahmah Relationship & Couples Therapy
A specialist relationship & couples therapy practice and professional training initiative rooted in clinical depth, trauma-informed care, and a commitment to global standards.
Our story
Our story and mission
Rahmah was founded by Sarah Saeed out of a recognition of two growing needs: couples in distress searching for trained specialist support, and a widespread untapped awareness of the transformative potential of quality couples therapy
Sarah's own journey to become a couples therapist was not straightforward. She struggled to find specialised training, mentorship, and specialist couples therapy supervision. This experience shaped Rahmah's mission: to support couples in healing while also making the path easier for therapists who want to develop in this niche.
Mission
Rahmah exists to support relational healing through specialist therapy, ethical clinical practice, and with the long term misson of professional development for the therapeutic community.
Clinical approach
A trauma-informed, process-based approach
Rahmah's clinical approach is grounded in specialised training in the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy. As a trauma-informed couples therapist, Sarah works from the understanding that past traumatic experiences, whether personal or shared, can deeply affect present communication, trust, intimacy, and emotional safety.
Rather than focusing only on improving communication skills or fixing behaviours, Rahmah's work is process-based. It focuses on building safety and trust, recognising that destructive relationship patterns are often survival strategies or protective mechanisms, and helping couples understand these patterns so they can learn healthier ways of relating.
- Conflict and disconnection
- Attachment patterns
- Affairs and betrayal trauma
- Grief, loss, in-law dynamics, and parenting
- Infertility, sex, intimacy, and sensitive relational concerns
- Family histories and societal pressures that influence the relationship
Philosophy
The meaning of Rahmah
The name and vision of Rahmah Relationship & Couples Therapy are guided by the meaning of rahmah: compassion, mercy, and the emotional safety needed for healing.
Rahmah's philosophy is inspired by Surah Ar-Rum 30:21, which speaks of tranquility, love, and mercy between partners.
At Rahmah, compassion is not treated as a slogan. It is part of the clinical stance: helping partners move beneath negative cycles of conflict toward the vulnerable emotions underneath, so they can respond to each other's pain with greater safety, care, and understanding.
Rahmah also extends beyond the therapy room. The organisation's wider vision is to create a compassionate professional space where therapists can learn, reflect, and grow in their ability to hold complex relational work.
About Sarah Saeed
An integrative psychotherapist devoted to relational depth
Sarah Saeed is an integrative psychotherapist with credentials from CPCAB UK Level 5 and a registered member of BACP. She is a trauma-informed couples therapist with advanced training in both the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy.
As a couples therapist, Sarah provides an integrative approach that is both practical and deeply emotional. She supports couples working through infidelity and betrayal trauma, conflict, disconnection, intimacy and sex-related concerns, and transitions through different life stages.
As an individual therapist, Sarah's approach facilitates the integration of fragmented and repressed parts of clients. She works with the relationship clients have with themselves and others in a safe, non-judgmental space, integrating humanistic, psychodynamic, and relational approaches to therapy.
As a supervisor, Sarah currently supervises qualified and trainee therapists across different modalities, including with CPPD and in private practice. Her supervision work facilitates deep exploration of transference, countertransference, and parallel processes, helping supervisees identify personal material in service of safe client care.
Credentials
Clinical credentials and training
Integrative psychotherapist, CPCAB UK Level 5
Clinical supervision background, CPPD
Gottman Method couples therapy training, Level 2
EFT externship for couples, ICEFT
Trauma-informed couples therapy
Humanistic, psychodynamic, and relational approaches
Looking ahead
Building a professional community for relationship & couples therapy
Rahmah's long-term vision is to cultivate a community of therapists who are globally connected, clinically empowered, and deeply committed to transformative healing in relationships & couples work. Alongside direct clinical care, Rahmah aims to periodically host professional trainings and workshops for therapists in Pakistan and beyond.