Child counselling in Noida is the therapy itself: the weekly hour in which a child works on what is actually troubling them. The short answer is our Malviya Nagar centre, because we do not have a centre in Noida. This page covers what happens in that room, what you will and will not be told about it, and how long a course usually runs.
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Centre: eMbrace at Rainbow, Malviya Nagar
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Address: FC-29, Plot No. 5, Geetanjali, near Malviya Nagar Metro Station Gate No. 1, New Delhi 110017
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Nearest metro: Malviya Nagar, Yellow Line, beside Gate No. 1
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Phone: +91 99715 76800
How Noida families see us
We should be straight about this one: eMbrace has no centre in Noida. Our three centres are in Vasant Kunj, Malviya Nagar and Gurugram, and from most of Noida that is a genuine cross-city journey with a Blue Line to Yellow Line change at Rajiv Chowk.
So for most Noida families the sensible answer is online. Consultation, parent sessions, feedback appointments and a good deal of therapy run perfectly well over video, and it removes the part of the process that most often causes families to drop out, which is the travel.
Where an in-person appointment is genuinely necessary, and cognitive and psychoeducational assessment is the clearest case, we usually schedule it at Malviya Nagar and try to group the testing so you make the trip once rather than weekly. If your child is at school in south Delhi, that often works out easier than it sounds.
Counselling is a weekly commitment rather than a single appointment, which changes how much the journey matters. A route that is fine once is a different proposition every week for three months, and travel is the commonest reason a family stops coming before the work is finished. Say so on the intake call and we will build the scheduling around your week, including running some sessions online.
On the occasions you do travel in for an in-person appointment, ask about parking and the nearest drop-off point on the intake call. Current directions from someone who works there beat anything we could fix on a web page.
Counselling, or assessment first?
Counselling is therapy: a child works on anxiety, anger, confidence, friendships, grief or a change at home. Assessment is diagnostic testing for something like ADHD, autism or a learning difficulty. Most children need the first, but some need the second before the first will work, because counselling a child for low confidence when the cause is an unidentified reading difficulty treats the symptom and leaves the cause.
- Counselling suits a child whose difficulty is emotional or relational
- Assessment comes first where the difficulty is with learning, attention or communication
- Both at once is common, and the two clinicians talk to each other
The full picture of how the therapy itself works is on our child counselling page.
What a counselling session actually looks like
It depends almost entirely on age. Under about eight it is play-based and looks like playing, because that is how young children process what they cannot yet say. From eight to twelve it mixes talking, drawing and structured activities. With teenagers it looks much more like adult therapy, with the young person setting a good deal of the agenda. Sessions run weekly at the same time, because the predictability is part of what makes it work.
On confidentiality, which is what parents ask about most: what your child says in the room is broadly theirs, and that privacy is what makes them willing to say anything at all. You get themes, progress and what to do at home, not a transcript. The exception, which we explain to your child at the start, is anything suggesting they are at risk.
What children work on in counselling here
Because Noida families work with us online, the counselling caseload leans towards what that format suits, and it suits a great deal of it. Anxiety, low mood, school refusal, confidence work and parent coaching all run well over video, and for some anxious children a session from their own room is easier than a waiting room ever was.
Play-based work with very young children is the honest exception. Under about six, counselling over video asks more of a parent than most weeks allow, and we would usually say so rather than take the booking.
Who you would see at our Malviya Nagar centre
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.
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.
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
Some of what we do around Noida happens inside institutions rather than at a centre, which is often how a family first hears of us.
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 a course runs, and how it ends
Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call, before anything is booked, and depend on which clinician your child works with.
Most courses run eight to sixteen weekly sessions, formally reviewed at around session six. Grief, trauma and family change need longer. If a course is not working the answer is to change it, not to book more of it. Endings are planned over the last two or three sessions, because a child who has trusted an adult with difficult material should not simply stop seeing them one week.
Frequently asked questions
Online, yes, and that is how most Noida families work with us. We have no centre in Noida; the nearest is Malviya Nagar, which is a cross-city journey.
From about eight upwards, well. For some anxious children a session from their own room is easier than a waiting room. Under six, play-based work is better in person.
Tell us on the intake call. Sometimes a different format helps, sometimes it points to travelling in for the first few sessions to build the relationship first.
Most courses run eight to sixteen weekly sessions with a formal review at around session six. Grief and family change usually need longer than anxiety work.
Fees are quoted upfront on your free 15-minute intake call, before you book anything, and depend on which clinician your child works with.
Book, or check first
Start with the free 15-minute intake call. It is with a clinician, fees are quoted on it, and if we are not the right service for your child we will tell you on that call rather than after you have paid for an appointment.
Book a free intake call