Teen counselling in Vasant Kunj is confidential therapy for young people between roughly thirteen and eighteen. The centre is in Vasant Kunj itself. If you are the teenager reading this rather than the parent, the section on what stays private is the one worth reading first.
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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
Our Vasant Kunj centre
This is the one locality page where the centre really is in the locality. eMbrace Vasant Kunj is at C-7, Sector C, Pocket 5, in the basement of Grand Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070.
It is our largest team, and the practical consequence is choice: if a clinician is not the right fit for your child, or you need a particular language, there is somebody else in the building rather than a wait for the one person who does that work.
Families reach us here from across south-west Delhi, including Vasant Vihar, Munirka, R.K. Puram, Safdarjung Enclave, Anand Niketan, Shanti Niketan, West End Colony, Moti Bagh and Chanakyapuri.
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
Vasant Kunj brings the most international adolescent caseload we see. Distinctive themes: identity for a young person who has grown up across several countries and does not feel fully from any of them, the loss that comes with a parent posting ending, and applications to universities abroad.
Alongside that, the ordinary run of adolescent work: anxiety, low mood, friendships, self-esteem and conflict at home. Being our largest team matters here because with teenagers the fit between young person and counsellor is not a nicety, it is the whole thing.
Who you would see at our Vasant Kunj 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 Vasant Kunj centre, 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 Vasant Kunj happens inside institutions rather than at a centre, which is often how a family first hears of us.
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.
Frequently asked questions
They get themes and progress, not a transcript. The only thing we always share is serious risk of harm, and we tell you before we do it.
Yes, and it is a distinctive theme at this centre, alongside the loss that comes when a parent posting ends and everything changes again.
Within the team, largely yes. With teenagers the fit is not a nicety, it is the whole thing, so tell us on the intake call what would suit.
Yes, where the stress of it has become the problem. It is a recurring theme here from about sixteen, particularly where family expectations and the young person diverge.
Fees are quoted upfront on your free 15-minute intake call, and depend on which clinician the young person works with and what the work involves.
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.
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