Online Counselling and Therapy for Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad is a city where the family and the business are usually the same thing, and where a difficulty in one is a difficulty in the other. That is much of what its residents bring to therapy.
“Ahmedabad is a city where the family and the business are usually the same thing, and where a difficulty in one is a difficulty in the other. That is much of what its residents bring to therapy.”
Dr. (Hon.) Taanya Nagi holds an MA in Counselling Psychology and a Diploma in Holistic Healing & Counselling from the Holistic Living Training Institute in Melbourne, is a certified member of the Australian Holistic Healers & Counsellors Association (AHHCA), and practised in Australia for thirteen years before returning to India. She is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP Life Coach and Usui Reiki Master with more than twenty-five years of practice, and she works online with clients across India from New Delhi, in English or Hindi.
Ahmedabad clients are along the SG Highway and in Prahlad Nagar, Bopal and Satellite, in the older city and Maninagar, in Gandhinagar and the financial firms at GIFT City, and in the hostels around IIM, CEPT, NID and Nirma. Most belong to Gujarati households in which several generations, and often several businesses, share a roof.
Treatment & Support
Why Ahmedabad clients choose online
In a business family, going to see a psychologist is a family event. Someone has to be told why the car was needed, and in a community that trades on reputation, the question of who else knows is not a small one. A video session from a private room, or from a parked car, with a practitioner in Delhi whom nobody in the family or the trade has met, is private in a way a local appointment is not.
The second reason is that the combination of counselling, clinical hypnotherapy and energy work from one practitioner is thin on the ground in Ahmedabad, where the therapy market is smaller than the city's size suggests. The third is the working day itself. A family business does not close at six, and a client who wants a session before the shop opens or after the last customer has gone needs a practitioner who can offer that time.
What Ahmedabad clients come with
- «Succession and the family business: a son or daughter who does not want to take it over, or who has taken it over and cannot make a decision without a father's approval
- «Money stress that is also family stress, when a business downturn in textiles, chemicals or trading becomes a household matter and nobody is allowed to say so
- «Daughters-in-law in Gujarati joint households, negotiating a role inside a business family where the wife of the eldest son has a job description nobody wrote down
- «Pressure on students at IIM, CEPT, NID and the engineering colleges, far from home in a city that shuts down early and where the campus is the whole world
- «Anxiety and burnout in finance and back-office roles at GIFT City, working overseas-client hours in a city that otherwise keeps traditional ones
Sessions around Ahmedabad hours
Ahmedabad and Delhi share a clock. Early-morning slots exist for people who need to be at the shop or the factory by nine, late-evening slots for those whose business runs into the night or whose work at GIFT City follows a market abroad, and weekend sessions are available. Students are usually most comfortable with a weekday morning, when the hostel is at lectures.
Privacy at home is usually privacy from a large family. Headphones remove half the conversation from anyone in earshot. A slot when the house is out, a parked car in the basement, a closed office at the business after hours, or a booked meeting room all work. Nobody is obliged to tell their family that they are in counselling, and nothing is shared with anyone.
What is available
Counselling and psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, stress, grief and relationship difficulty. Clinical hypnotherapy for smoking, weight, phobias, sleep and performance anxiety. Couples and pre-marital counselling, including for engaged couples whose families arranged the match and who want to get to know each other before the wedding. Life coaching and confidence work drawing on NLP. Distance Reiki, chakra work and EFT tapping for those who want them. Reiki training to Master level is taught online, with attunements given at a distance. All of it is delivered by video, fifty to sixty minutes at a scheduled time.
How this works
Sessions are online from New Delhi. There is no clinic in Ahmedabad, and in-person appointments are only available at D-96 Anand Niketan, New Delhi 110021. Taanya is a counselling psychologist, not a psychiatrist; she does not diagnose psychiatric illness or prescribe medication. Where medication or a psychiatric assessment is indicated she will say so and refer you to a psychiatrist in Ahmedabad, which has psychiatry departments in its large hospitals and psychiatrists in private practice across the city. This is a scheduled service, not a crisis one: in immediate danger, call Tele-MANAS on 14416, KIRAN on 1800-599-0019 or 112, or go to the nearest emergency department.
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Questions & Answers
Everything you need to know before booking your first session.
Is there a clinic in Ahmedabad?+
No. The only consulting room is at Anand Niketan in South Delhi. Ahmedabad clients are seen online by video. Anyone visiting Delhi for business or family is welcome to book an in-person session while they are there.
Are sessions in Hindi or English?+
Either, or a mix. Taanya does not offer sessions in Gujarati. Most Ahmedabad clients move comfortably between Hindi and English, and family matters are usually easier in Hindi.
How do I keep sessions private in a joint family?+
Headphones, a slot when the house is out, a parked car, or a closed office at the business after hours. Sessions are not recorded and are confidential. You do not have to tell your parents, in-laws or business partners that you are in counselling.
How many sessions will I need?+
It depends on what you bring. Focused difficulties often respond in six to twelve sessions; longstanding patterns take longer. You should have a rough estimate after two or three sessions, revised openly as the work goes on.
What if I need urgent help?+
Call Tele-MANAS on 14416 or KIRAN on 1800-599-0019, both free and available around the clock, or 112. If you cannot stay safe, go to the nearest emergency department; online counselling cannot respond to an emergency.
