Occupational Therapy in Gurgaon

Occupational therapy in Gurgaon 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 centre is in Gurgaon itself. It is not physiotherapy, and it is not tuition.

Our Gurugram centre

eMbrace Gurugram is at 710, DLF City Court, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, Nathupur, Sector 24, Gurugram 122002. Guru Dronacharya on the Yellow Line is roughly 700 metres away, which makes this one of the few specialist child psychology services in Gurugram you can reach without a car.

That matters for families coming from DLF Phases 1 to 4, Sushant Lok, Sector 54 and the sectors around it, and it matters again for teenagers who would rather come to a session independently than be dropped off by a parent.

Delhi families sometimes choose Gurugram over our Delhi centres simply because the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road run is easier from where they live than crossing south Delhi. Either centre is fine, and the same pathway runs at both.

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

Gurugram is our other centre with an occupational therapist based on site, and the referrals skew young: sensory processing and regulation in preschool and early primary children, frequently as part of an autism programme.

The second group is handwriting in primary-age children, usually flagged by schools with established learning support teams, which means the classroom picture is documented before we start.

Who you would see at our Gurugram 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 Gurugram centre, 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 Gurgaon is usually part of something larger, and these are the settings it connects to.

We work with Pathways School Gurgaon on psychoeducational, cognitive and risk assessments, therapy for children and adolescents, and workshops for teachers, parents and pupils.

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