Adult Counselling in Hauz Khas

Adult counselling in Hauz Khas is therapy for you, booked by you, with nobody else in the loop. The short answer is our Malviya Nagar centre, because we do not have a centre in Hauz Khas. 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 eMbrace centre Hauz Khas families use

Our centre is in Malviya Nagar, one Yellow Line stop south of Hauz Khas metro station, at FC-29, Plot No. 5, Geetanjali, beside Malviya Nagar Metro Station Gate No. 1. There is no eMbrace centre in Hauz Khas itself.

For families in Hauz Khas, SDA, Safdarjung Development Area and Gulmohar Park, the metro is usually faster than driving down Aurobindo Marg at school-run hours, and a single stop with no interchange is manageable even with a child who finds travel difficult.

The centre sits inside Rainbow Children's Hospital, so if an assessment points towards speech therapy, occupational therapy or physiotherapy, those run in the same building rather than at a second address across the city.

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

From Hauz Khas, SDA and Gulmohar Park a distinctive group is academic and research staff and postgraduates: isolation, imposter feelings, stalled work and the particular strain of a career where the deadlines are self-imposed and never finish.

Alongside that, the usual pattern of high-functioning anxiety in people whose lives look entirely fine from outside, which is the presentation most likely to be dismissed by the person carrying it.

Who you would see at our Malviya Nagar centre

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.

At our Malviya Nagar centre, the clinicians who take this work are:

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.

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 Hauz Khas 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.

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