Therapy for trauma & ptsd
Therapy for trauma and PTSD — online across India
Something happened — once, or over years. It ended, but it didn't end. Trauma therapy is how the past becomes something that happened to you, rather than something that keeps happening.
What it can feel like
Trauma leaves fingerprints that don't always look like 'flashbacks in a war film':
- Certain places, dates, smells or tones of voice flip a switch in your body before your mind catches up.
- Memories intrude when you least want them — or whole stretches of the past are strangely blank.
- You stay busy, stay useful, stay numb — anything but still.
- Trust feels expensive. Even safe people get kept at arm's length.
- Sleep is guarded and shallow; your body behaves like it's still on duty.
- You minimise it: 'others had it worse', 'it was so long ago', 'our family doesn't talk about these things'.
A list like this can name an experience, but it can’t diagnose one — that takes a proper, unhurried assessment.
If what happened feels unbearable right now, or you're having thoughts of harming yourself, please don't wait for an appointment — Tele-MANAS 14416 (24×7, free) · all helplines
How therapy helps
Trauma work is careful work. We do not start by re-telling the worst day of your life — that approach retraumatises more than it heals. Evidence-based trauma therapy is paced: first stability and safety (skills for the body, for sleep, for the flashbacks), then — only when you have solid ground — processing the memories at a depth you choose, and finally reconnecting with a life that isn’t organised around what happened.
I draw on trauma-focused CBT, mindfulness-based approaches for the body’s alarm system, and schema therapy where trauma happened early and shaped how you see yourself and others. Supportive, affirmative therapy matters especially here: many people carry trauma linked to family, gender, sexuality or community — the work honours your context instead of ignoring it.
What working together looks like
You control the pace and the depth — always. Some people need months of steadying work before touching the past; some arrive ready to process. Both are right. My job is to keep the work within what you can integrate, session by session.
Trauma therapy works well online; many people find it easier to begin from their own safe space at home. Sessions in English or Malayalam.
Further reading
General, institutional reading — none of it replaces an assessment: APA on psychotherapy (opens in a new tab) · NIMH on evidence-based therapies (opens in a new tab) · Tele-MANAS (Govt. of India) (opens in a new tab)
Common questions
Does what happened to me 'count' as trauma?
Will I have to talk about the details?
It's been decades. Is it too late?
It ended. With the right support, your body can learn that too.
A first session commits you to nothing except an hour of being heard — and the pace, from there, is entirely yours.