Online Therapy for Indian Professionals Abroad.

The work

The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run through intake checklists or assign exercises between sessions. I pay attention to what happens in the room: what you're saying, what you're not saying, the moments when something shifts or goes flat or speeds up. That's the material we work with.

Most people arrive already knowing the story of their situation. They've told it to themselves a hundred times and always land in the same place. What's missing is a different angle, someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. That's what I offer. Not interpretation from a distance, but attention in the room, offered as it happens.

I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is usually about finding the pattern underneath the presenting problem, the thing that keeps recurring in different forms across different circumstances. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about. Both come down to the same thing: seeing what you haven't been able to see, and from there, actually being able to do something different.

Why this is built for privacy

Indian professionals abroad carry a particular load: high family expectation around career, marriage, and success, the duty owed to parents who invested everything, and the model-minority pressure to keep performing and never crack. In many families mental health still carries stigma, which means the strain stays hidden, sometimes even from a spouse. And in tight diaspora communities, privacy is everything: the last thing you want is a therapist who moves in the same circles, who might know your relatives or your community.

That is exactly what this is built for. I am American-trained, I sit completely outside your community and family network, and there is no record of any kind. The work is in English, at depth, and it stays entirely yours.

What people bring

The shapes recur across the diaspora. The H-1B and tech professional in the US, the consulting and finance professional in Singapore, Dubai, and London, the doctor, the graduate student. The marriage and family-pressure dynamics, including the weight of expectation around when and whom to marry. The guilt that comes with individuating from a family that gave up so much. The loneliness of carrying all of it alone in a country far from home, performing success while quietly coming apart, with the stigma keeping you from telling even the people closest to you.

The arrangement

I am a US-trained psychodynamic therapist working online and privately, in English, across every time zone. No insurance billing, no diagnosis, no clinical record, and no connection to your community or family network anywhere. You pay directly, in any currency. We start with a free 15-minute call.

Questions people ask

What people bring to online therapy

The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.

How it works

Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a free 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.