Adult Counselling in Delhi

Adult counselling in Delhi is therapy for you, booked by you, with nobody else in the loop. 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. Most people who contact us have been thinking about it for a year or more, so if you are only at the point of reading a page about it, that is a normal place to start.

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.

The obstacle for most adults is not the fee, it is the working week. Sessions run weekly, and the slots that survive are early morning, late evening and weekends rather than the middle of a working day. Tell us what your week looks like and we will say honestly whether we can fit it, rather than booking you into something you start cancelling by week four.

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 counselling is worth starting

There is no threshold you have to cross to deserve therapy, and the commonest reason people give for not starting sooner is that other people have it worse. That is true of almost everyone and it is not a useful test. A more useful one is whether something has been going on long enough that you have stopped expecting it to lift on its own.

• Low mood, anxiety or irritability that has become the normal setting rather than a bad patch
• Burnout: still functioning at work, running on empty, and no longer recovering at weekends
• A bereavement, separation, diagnosis or move that has not settled the way you assumed it would
• The same pattern repeating across relationships, jobs or friendships
• Drinking, working or scrolling noticeably more in order to not think about something

Anxiety, depression, burnout, grief, workplace stress, trauma and relationship difficulties each have their own page on our adult mental health hub.

What the first session is like, and who knows about it

The first session is a conversation, not an assessment. By the end you should have a plain-language account of what seems to be going on and a suggested way of working. You are not obliged to continue and you will not be sold a package.

On discretion, which people ask about far more than method: what you say stays between you and your therapist. Nothing reaches your employer, family or doctor without your written consent, including where an employer is paying. The only limit is serious risk.

What adults come to us with here

Across both Delhi centres the adult caseload runs on anxiety, low mood, burnout, grief, relationship difficulty and life transitions. Vasant Kunj carries more of the couples, trauma and international relocation work; Malviya Nagar sees more people who reached us through a child already being seen.

The city-wide pattern is delay. Most adults contact us long after the point at which the work would have been easier, which is worth naming only because it is so nearly universal that it should not put anyone off starting now.

Who you would see

Dr Supriya Malik, Founder and CEO

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 works across the lifespan, including anxiety and depression in adults, and designed the pathways every eMbrace centre runs.

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

Dr Mahima Sahi, Clinical Director

Dr Mahima Sahi holds a PhD in Psychology and leads clinical supervision and therapist training across the practice. She is trained in Gottman Method Couples Therapy to Levels 1 and 2 in the USA, and in trauma-informed somatic and memory reconsolidation work through NICABM. Her own caseload is adult: developmental trauma, attachment injuries and high-functioning burnout.

Shruti Ghosh, Clinical Psychologist

M.Phil in Clinical Psychology with distinction from Amity University, Noida, and UGC-NET qualified. CBT, DBT, ACT and Parent Management Training across neurodevelopmental, mood and obsessive-compulsive presentations. Works in Hindi, English and Bengali.

Taranpreet Kaur, Clinical Psychologist

M.Phil in Clinical Psychology with distinction, plus a Post Graduate Diploma in School Counselling from Symbiosis. ACT and MBCT for anxiety, depression, OCD and trauma, and comprehensive psychological assessment. Works in English, Hindi and Punjabi.

Mannat Kaur Arora, Psychologist

Professional Diploma in Clinical Psychology from Amity University Haryana and an MA in Psychology from the University of Delhi. Assessment across MISIC, WISC-IV, Conners 3, CBCL, ISAA, CARS and the NIMHANS SLD battery. 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

Some of the adult work we do around Delhi runs through employers and partner services rather than through this website, which is often how someone first reaches us.

We are a mental health partner for corporates working with WTW, providing therapy support, assessment and workshops.

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

Where a child or adult needs psychiatric input, we work with Sukoon across Delhi NCR for psychiatric assessment, consultation and medication management, so you are not left to find a psychiatrist yourself.

Fees, how long it runs, and couples work

Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call, before anything is booked. Where an employer or partner service is funding the work, we tell you how many sessions that covers before you start rather than when it runs out.

Focused work on a specific difficulty often runs eight to twelve sessions. Long-standing patterns and trauma work run considerably longer, and we say which we think applies rather than leaving you to find out. Couples work is a separate strand, starting with a joint session and an individual session with each partner.

Frequently asked questions