Teen Counselling in Delhi

Teen counselling in Delhi is confidential therapy for young people between roughly thirteen and eighteen. 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. If you are the teenager reading this rather than the parent, the section on what stays private is the one worth reading first.

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.

Two practical things about adolescents specifically. They can usually travel to a session alone, and a young person who arrives under their own steam engages very differently from one who has been driven there by a parent. And their week is genuinely full: school, coaching, boards. We schedule around that rather than expecting a teenager to drop something, and late-afternoon and evening slots are the ones that hold.

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 teen counselling is the right call

Adolescence is legitimately turbulent, and most of it does not need a therapist. What matters is duration, spread and function: whether something has persisted for weeks rather than days, whether it shows up in more than one part of their life, and whether it has started to shrink what they will do.

• Low mood or anxiety that has lasted several weeks and is not lifting
• Withdrawal from friends, activities or school they previously managed
• Exam or performance pressure that has stopped being motivating and started being disabling
• Any self-harm, or any talk of not wanting to be here, which we see the same week

Exam anxiety, social anxiety, low mood and digital and gaming difficulties each have their own page on our teen mental health hub.

What stays private, and what does not

This is the part that decides whether counselling works for a teenager, so we settle it in the first session with the young person and the parent in the room together. What a young person says is theirs. A parent gets themes, progress and what would help at home. A parent does not get a transcript, and we will not pass on what was said because it was asked for.

The limit is risk. If we believe a young person is at serious risk of harm, we share what we need to in order to keep them safe, and we tell them we are doing it rather than going behind them. Setting that out plainly at the start is what makes the privacy credible for the rest of the work.

What teenagers bring to counselling here

Across both Delhi centres adolescent work is dominated by academic pressure, anxiety and low mood, with friendship difficulty and conflict at home close behind. What varies is the flavour: Vasant Kunj sees more international school and third-culture work, Malviya Nagar more board-year pressure from the Yellow Line corridor.

The city-wide constant is sleep. A very large proportion of adolescents we see are chronically short of it, and it makes every other presenting problem harder to shift.

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:

Dhriti Dharana, Clinical Lead

MSc in Clinical Health Psychology and Well-being from Middlesex University, UK. Behavioural therapy with neurodivergent children and parent training, from a neurodiversity-affirming position. Works in fluent English and native Hindi.

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.

Arshita Matta, Psychologist

Integrated BA and MA in Clinical Psychology from Amity University, Noida. Case history taking, mental state examination, psychoeducation and counselling with children and adolescents. 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 Delhi happens inside institutions rather than at a centre, which is often how a family first hears of us.

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.

We work with The British School in Chanakyapuri on psychoeducational, cognitive and risk assessments, therapy for children and adolescents, and workshops for teachers, parents and pupils.

At the American Embassy School in Chanakyapuri we carry out psychoeducational, cognitive, comprehensive and brief assessments, including risk assessments, and provide therapy for children and adolescents.

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, consent and how long it runs

Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call, before anything is booked, and depend on which clinician the young person works with.

Most courses run eight to sixteen weekly sessions with a formal review at around session six. On consent: a parent books and pays for a young person under eighteen, but the therapy only works if the teenager has agreed to it. We will not do useful work with someone who has been sent under protest, and we would rather spend the first session earning their agreement than pretend we have it.

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