Online therapy across India — the same work, minus the commute.

You book a slot, and a Google Meet link arrives before the session. At the appointed time you click it — from home, a parked car, an empty office cabin, wherever you can speak freely. Sessions run about 50 minutes [FILL: confirm], unhurried and confidential, in English or Malayalam.

What you need: a phone or laptop, headphones (they help more than you’d think, for both privacy and presence), a reasonably stable connection, and a corner where you won’t be overheard. If the connection drops, we simply reconnect or shift to audio — technology hiccups are a normal part of it, never a crisis.

Confidentiality online works the same as in the therapy room — what you share stays between us, within the standard legal and safety limits explained in our first session. I take sessions from a private space; the main privacy variable is usually your end, which is why the headphones and the closed door matter.

On effectiveness: research over the past decade — accelerated by the pandemic years — has generally found online therapy comparable to in-person therapy for common concerns like anxiety and depression. That matches what I see in practice. Online suits most people and most concerns; where something genuinely needs in-person care or more intensive support, I say so and help you find it — here’s a longer, honest look at the evidence.