ABA Therapy in Delhi

Behaviour therapy in Delhi starts from a question rather than a technique: what is this behaviour achieving for the child? The short answer is both our Delhi centres, Vasant Kunj and Malviya Nagar, and which one is a question of your journey rather than of the service. Behaviour that looks baffling is almost always doing a job, and the useful work is finding a better way for that job to get done.

Which of our Delhi centres you would use

We have two centres in Delhi, and which one you use is a question of geography rather than service, because the same pathway runs at both.

eMbrace Vasant Kunj, at C-7, Sector C, Pocket 5, Grand Vasant Kunj, is the larger team and serves south-west Delhi: Vasant Vihar, Munirka, R.K. Puram, Safdarjung Enclave, Anand Niketan, Shanti Niketan, Moti Bagh and Chanakyapuri.

eMbrace at Rainbow, Malviya Nagar, at FC-29, Plot No. 5, Geetanjali, beside Malviya Nagar Metro Station Gate No. 1, serves the Yellow Line corridor through Saket, Hauz Khas and Green Park, and the drive-in catchment of Greater Kailash and Defence Colony. It runs inside Rainbow Children's Hospital, so multidisciplinary therapy sits in the same building as assessment.

If you are in north or west Delhi, either centre is a real journey, and we would usually suggest starting online and coming in only for the parts that have to happen in a room.

Sessions are weekly or twice weekly, with parent training running alongside from the start rather than added later. Behaviour changes where it happens, which is at home and at school, so a programme nobody can run between sessions will not work however well designed it is.

For parking, the nearest drop-off point and the quickest route at your particular time of day, ask on the intake call. Traffic and parking around every one of these centres change enough through the day that current directions from someone who works there beat anything we could fix on a web page.

When behaviour therapy is the right approach

It suits behaviour that is frequent, entrenched and getting in the way of learning, safety or family life. It is the wrong starting point when nobody has yet asked why the behaviour is happening, which is why our work begins with observation rather than with a plan.

• Behaviour that has not shifted with ordinary parenting approaches over months
• Aggression or self-injury, which we would see promptly
• Difficulty with transitions, routines or waiting that limits what a family can do
• Skills a child could learn but has not, where teaching needs to be broken down

The clinical detail sits on our behaviour therapy page.

How a programme is built

Observation first, then a written account of what typically comes before the behaviour, what the behaviour is, and what follows it. From that we agree a small number of targets, the strategies to be used, and how progress will be recorded so it is judged on data rather than on impression.

Parent training runs alongside, because you are the person who will be there when it happens.

What we see most of

At our Delhi centres behaviour therapy usually forms part of a wider autism or developmental programme rather than standing alone, which is why it sits alongside speech and language and occupational therapy in the same building. The commonest targets are communication as an alternative to distressed behaviour, transitions, and self-care routines.

Who you would see

Dr Supriya Malik, Founder and CEO, and Head of the Child Development Centre at Rainbow

PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Birmingham, where she was also a postdoctoral researcher, and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society in the UK. She designed the assessment and therapy pathways every eMbrace centre runs.

Across our Delhi centres, the clinicians who take this work are:

Dhriti Dharana, Clinical Lead

MSc in Clinical Health Psychology and Well-being from Middlesex University, UK. Behavioural therapy with neurodivergent children and parent training, from a neurodiversity-affirming position. Works in fluent English and native Hindi.

Cheesha Kanwar, Psychologist

Completing an MSc in Clinical Psychology at Christ (Deemed to be University), with a BA (Hons) in Applied Psychology from the University of Delhi. Behaviour therapy and assessment support using WISC-V, NEPSY-II, Conners-3 and BRIEF-2. Works in English and Hindi.

Which of them you see is decided on the intake call rather than by whoever has the next free slot, and you are told who it will be before you book. Fuller biographies are on our about page.

Schools and services we already work with

Behaviour work around Delhi usually forms part of a wider programme, and these are the settings it connects to.

Our Malviya Nagar centre runs inside Rainbow Children's Hospital, New Delhi, which is why occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, behaviour therapy and special education sit in the same building as assessment.

Since 2025 we have delivered corporate workshops with Atypical Advantage on inclusivity and neurodiversity, autism awareness and mental health awareness.

Fees, review, and what we will not promise

Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call and depend on frequency and on whether parent training runs separately.

Progress is reviewed against recorded data on a set date. We will not promise a number of hours or an outcome, and we would be cautious about anyone who does. Where a behaviour is serving a purpose, the honest goal is a better route to that purpose, not simple suppression of it.

Frequently asked questions