A counselling psychologist helps you understand your feelings, thoughts, emotions and behaviour, and offers a positive, practical way to manage emotional turmoil. Taanya holds an MA in Counselling Psychology and sees clients in Dubai in person and online.
People get in touch about mental stress, anxiety, tension, low mood and emotional upset, as well as marital and family problems, relationship issues, illness or loss, loneliness, work difficulties, children’s behaviour and the strain of caring for elders. Support is offered to adults, young people and seniors.
Approaches used
For anxiety disorders (generalised anxiety, panic, phobias, social anxiety, obsessive–compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress), the main approach is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). CBT helps you understand, identify and manage what contributes to your anxiety. Interpersonal approaches help you express emotions in healthier ways and improve your relationships with others.
Where it helps, assessments may be used to tailor the work to you.
What a counselling psychologist does
- Listens to your history and what has brought you here
- Helps identify the stressors and challenges in your life
- Uses therapeutic techniques to ease anxiety and stress
- Helps you set short- and long-term goals
- Shares the importance of self-care, and useful resources
Areas of support
- Stress, anxiety and emotional upset
- Marriage and relationship counselling
- Children’s self-esteem, behaviour and mood changes
- Parenting support
- Sexual and intimacy concerns in a relationship
- Sleep difficulties: building healthier sleep habits
- IQ testing
- Career counselling and self-improvement
- Grief, loss and life transitions
In person in Dubai, or online
Taanya sees clients in person in Dubai, and also offers sessions by video call, so you can choose whichever suits you. Online sessions can be joined from home or anywhere private, and since Dubai is an hour and a half behind India, it is easy to find a time.
To arrange a session, send a message on WhatsApp or by email, or use the enquiry form, and say whether you would prefer to meet in person or online. Our team will reply with available times and the details of where to meet.
Common questions
Send an enquiry through the contact form, or message on WhatsApp or by email, and our team will reply to arrange a time.
The first session focuses on understanding your history and what has brought you here, followed by an initial assessment and a discussion of the way forward.
Yes. Sessions are strictly confidential and non-judgemental, except where there is a serious risk of harm to yourself or others. Nothing you share is passed on to anyone else without your consent.
No. If it may help, you will be referred to an appropriate medical professional.
The first session is 30 minutes and covers your history, an initial assessment and a discussion of the way forward. The length and number of later sessions depend on you and what suits you best.
Warm, but strictly ethical and professional, and focused on your wellbeing. If professional boundaries are crossed, the therapist may end the therapeutic relationship.
Video sessions have been found to work as well as face-to-face sessions for many people. Telephone sessions are better suited to less serious concerns. If your situation would be better supported another way, Taanya will tell you.
