Relationship and Marriage Counselling Online for the UK
Relationship and marriage counselling by video for couples and individuals in the UK, held from the practice in New Delhi.
“Relationship and marriage counselling by video for couples and individuals in the UK, held from the practice in New Delhi.”
Treatment & Support
Coming Together, or Alone
Both are ordinary. Joint sessions with both partners on one screen are the usual arrangement and there is something useful in the shared frame — you are literally sitting together, facing the same person.
Individual work on a relationship is equally valid, and frequently more realistic, because one partner is willing before the other is. You do not need both people in the room to change how a relationship runs; you need one person who changes what they do inside it.
Where only one partner attends, the absent one is not treated as a case to be diagnosed in their absence. That would be neither fair nor useful.
What Couples Bring
- «The same argument recurring in different forms and never resolving
- «In-laws, and where the boundary sits — particularly where parents live with the couple
- «Intimacy that has faded and become impossible to raise
- «Trust after an affair, a lie, or a long omission
- «Money, including supporting relatives in India and the disagreements about it
- «Parenting, especially where one partner wants a more Indian upbringing than the other
- «Marriages arranged by families where the couple never built a friendship underneath
- «Growing apart quietly, with no incident and nobody at fault
Cross-Cultural Couples
Where one partner is British Indian and the other is not, the surface argument is frequently not the real one. How much say parents have in a couple's decisions, whether obligation is a burden or simply a given, how openly disagreement is voiced, how much of family life stays private — these vary enormously, and each partner tends to assume their version is simply how things are.
The work is not usually about deciding whose culture prevails. It is about making the assumptions visible, because two people arguing from unexamined premises land back in the same place every time.
The same applies where both partners are Indian-origin but were raised in different countries — one in India, one in Britain. That gap is subtler and often more frustrating precisely because both assume they are starting from the same place.
The Izzat Problem
British Indian couples frequently describe a specific pressure: a marriage in difficulty is not treated as a private matter but as something with consequences for the wider family's standing, and for unmarried siblings' prospects.
This is one of the main reasons couples delay seeking help for years, and one of the main reasons some couples remain in marriages that have become genuinely harmful. It gets named in the room, because a couple managing both the marriage and everyone's opinion of the marriage is carrying two problems and usually only discussing one.
Where Counselling Is Not Appropriate
Joint counselling is not appropriate where there is violence or coercive control. Joint sessions that encourage honest disclosure can raise the risk to the person in danger after they go home.
If that is your situation, individual support is available. In the UK, the National Domestic Abuse Helpline is free on 0808 2000 247, twenty-four hours. In immediate danger, call 999.
Timing
India is four and a half hours ahead of the UK in summer and five and a half in winter. UK daytime and early-afternoon sessions are the easiest to arrange, and weekend mornings work well for couples who both work.
Sessions run an hour. Where you are in the same house, both partners on one screen in one room works better than two devices in two rooms.
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Relationship and Marriage Counselling Online for Clients in the UK
Questions & Answers
Everything you need to know before booking your first session.
My partner will not come. Is there any point?+
Yes. A great deal of relationship work is done with one person, and reluctant partners often join later once it is clear the sessions are not a tribunal.
Will you tell us whether to separate?+
No. That is your decision. Counselling can make it a considered decision rather than one taken during the worst week of the year — and some couples use it to separate more decently than they otherwise would.
Are you registered with the BACP?+
No. Taanya practises in New Delhi and is not on any UK register. She works with UK clients online as a counsellor and clinical hypnotherapist with an MA in Counselling Psychology.
Can we do sessions if we are in different cities?+
Yes, and it is common where one partner travels. Two devices works fine, though a shared screen is better where you are in the same home.
Can this be claimed on insurance?+
No. UK insurers reimburse recognised UK providers, so these sessions are paid privately. Relate and similar UK organisations offer sliding-scale couples counselling if cost is the deciding factor.
What if I need urgent help?+
This is not a crisis service. Call 999 in an emergency, Samaritans free on 116 123, or the National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247.
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