Occupational therapy in Delhi is the least well understood service we offer, so it is worth starting with what it is: helping someone do the ordinary things a day is made of. Dressing, handwriting, eating, sitting still enough to learn, tolerating noise and touch. 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. It is not physiotherapy, and it is not tuition.
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Centre: eMbrace Vasant Kunj
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Address: C-7, Sector C, Pocket 5, Basement, Grand Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070
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Nearest metro: Munirka on the Magenta Line is nearest, Chhatarpur on the Yellow Line is the usual access point for the Vasant Kunj sectors
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Phone: +91 99715 76800
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.
Weekly to begin with, often reducing as a home and school programme takes over. Occupational therapy is unusual in how much of it is environmental: changing a chair, a pencil grip, a routine or a classroom seat can matter more than another session. That means the useful measure of progress is not what happens in the gym here, it is whether mornings at home got easier.
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.
What occupational therapy actually addresses
Broadly three things: fine motor and hand skills, sensory processing, and the practical independence that both feed into. A child may come because handwriting is illegible and leave with work on shoulder stability and pencil grip. Another comes because they cannot tolerate a school assembly and the work is about regulation and sensory strategy.
- Handwriting that is slow, effortful, painful or illegible despite practice
- Strong reactions to noise, texture, clothing, food or touch that shrink daily life
- Difficulty with buttons, laces, cutlery, or self-care well past the usual age
- A child described as clumsy, who avoids playgrounds, bikes or ball games
- Difficulty settling to a task, where the underlying problem is regulation rather than attention
Sensory processing, handwriting, fine motor skills and daily living each have their own page on our occupational therapy hub.
What the first appointment involves
An assessment through observation and structured tasks rather than questionnaires: watching how a child moves, grips, balances, organises themselves and responds to sensory input, alongside a history from you about which parts of the day are hardest.
You leave with a small number of goals framed as daily tasks rather than as abstractions, so the target is fastening a shirt or writing a paragraph without pain, not improving fine motor skills in general. Most of the plan is things to change at home and school.
What we see most of here
Across our Delhi centres the reasons for referral are handwriting, sensory processing, coordination and self-care independence, with occupational therapy input into autism and developmental programmes running alongside.
The city-wide pattern is late referral for handwriting: children are told to practise more for two or three years before anyone asks why it is mechanically hard, by which point the child has usually decided they are bad at writing.
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:
Dr Agrima Aggarwal, Occupational Therapist
Dr Agrima Aggarwal is a PhD scholar in Occupational Therapy at Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences and Technology. She holds an MOT in Neurology from SVNIRTAR, Utkal University, where she was gold medallist, and a BOT from PDUNIPPD, University of Delhi. She works in paediatric occupational therapy and early intervention, alongside neurorehabilitation and cognitive rehabilitation.
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
Occupational therapy around Delhi is usually part of something larger, 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.
Through The Medical Travel Company we provide autism and ADHD assessment and therapy for families in the UK, across Africa and elsewhere in India, on hybrid, in-person and online programmes.
Fees and how long it runs
Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call. Courses usually run in blocks of eight to twelve weekly sessions with a review at the end, and frequency often reduces once the home and school programme is doing the work.
Progress is judged against the daily tasks written at the start. If a child is doing better in the therapy room and no better at home, that is a signal the plan needs to change rather than continue.
Frequently asked questions
Vasant Kunj, where our occupational therapist is based, or Malviya Nagar inside Rainbow where occupational therapy runs alongside the other therapies.
Physiotherapy works on movement and strength. Occupational therapy works on doing the ordinary tasks a day is made of, from dressing to handwriting.
Probably. Late referral for handwriting is the clearest city-wide pattern we see, and by then a child has usually decided they are bad at writing.
Against daily tasks written at the start. Improvement in the therapy room with none at home is a signal to change the plan.
You get the figure on your free 15-minute intake call, depending on the therapist and how often sessions run.
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