
Everything on the first list is available today and sits squarely inside what counselling and psychoeducation cover. The second list is clinical work — that comes only after RCI registration, and it is listed here so the roadmap is visible, not so it can be ordered.
Counselling, guidance and psychoeducation. Expand any row for detail.
Clinical work requires RCI registration. These are listed so you know where this is headed — and so nobody mistakes counselling for clinical treatment.
Standardised testing and formal psychological assessment.
After RCIFormal diagnosis of psychological disorders under ICD or DSM criteria.
After RCIStructured therapeutic modalities — CBT, REBT and related clinical approaches.
After RCIIndependent clinical practice and hospital or institutional attachment.
After RCIYou need a clinical psychologist registered with the RCI, or a psychiatrist. Ask me and I will help you find one — there is no charge for that and no reason to be embarrassed about needing it. Getting the right professional matters more than getting a familiar one.
Four kinds of person who usually get something out of it.
Preparing for boards, entrances or competitive exams, and quietly drowning in it. Often carrying family expectation heavier than the syllabus.
Early career, first job, first city. Functioning fine on paper and unsure why nothing feels like it is going anywhere.
Existential doubt, loss of belief, value conflict. Real distress that gets waved away as overthinking by everyone around them.
Someone close to you has a diagnosis and nobody explained it. Psychoeducation sessions exist mostly for this.
This page is not the right place. Counselling sessions are scheduled, not immediate, and I am not an emergency service. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, please contact one of these now — they are free, staffed around the clock, and answering is their whole job.
That is normal and completely fine. The first conversation exists to work it out.