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These do not change, whatever you bring in.
Most people arrive having been given advice by everybody and heard by nobody. The first session is almost entirely listening. Solutions offered before understanding are just noise with good intentions.
“I feel bad” is not a diagnosis, it is a starting point. A lot of the work is finding the accurate word — resentment, not anger; grief, not failure. The right name changes what you can do about it.
Often the distress is not the problem — the belief underneath it is. This is where the philosophy training earns its place. Some problems dissolve when the assumption holding them up gets examined.
If something needs clinical treatment, you will be told in the first or second session, not the tenth. Keeping a client who needs a different professional is not care, it is business.
Sixty minutes, roughly this shape.
How the week went, what has shifted since last time, what is loudest right now.
Following the thing that matters, wherever it goes. Questions, not lectures.
Pulling it into something usable — a pattern, a name, a frame you can carry out.
One concrete, small thing before next time. Not homework. Something you will actually do.
If you walk in and the whole hour goes on one sentence you said in minute three, that is a good session, not a failed one. The structure above is a default, not a rule.
A lot of what arrives as anxiety is a philosophical question that nobody gave you permission to ask out loud.
“What is the point of any of this?” is not necessarily depression. Sometimes it is a genuine question that deserves a genuine conversation rather than being pathologised into a symptom.
Equally — sometimes it is depression, and treating it as an interesting philosophical puzzle would be a serious failure. Knowing which one you are looking at is most of the skill, and when it is unclear, the safe assumption is the clinical one and a referral.
Format, confidentiality, duration and money.
Online by default, over a private video call. In-person is possible in Gurgaon with prior arrangement. Online works better than most people expect — and for many it is easier to speak honestly from your own room.
Everything you say stays between us. No notes are shared with parents, employers or anyone else. The single exception — standard in this field everywhere — is a serious and immediate risk to your life or someone else's. That will be explained fully before the first session begins.
There is no fixed package and you will never be sold a bundle. Some people come three times and are done. Others find a fortnightly hour useful for months. We review honestly every few sessions, and when it stops being useful I will say so before you do.
Yes, if it genuinely helps — a partner, a parent, a sibling. It is worth having at least one session alone first, though. People say quite different things when the person they are describing is in the room.
The first conversation is free. After that, fees depend on session length and frequency, and group sessions cost considerably less than individual ones. Concessions exist for students and for anyone genuinely unable to pay — ask directly, it will not be held against you.
That is fine. The first conversation is free and exists precisely so you can find out whether this is worth continuing.
