Marriage, relationship & family counselling
Two people who still care - and cannot seem to reach each other.
Coming to therapy does not mean your relationship has failed. Often it means the opposite - that it still matters enough to work on. Whatever has been happening between you, it can be understood, and it can be worked with.
For couples, families and individuals - in person at Kandivali East, Mumbai, and online across India and abroad. You can also come alone.
You may recognise some of this
Most couples do not arrive because of one big event.
They arrive because something has been quietly wearing thin for a long time.
The same argument, again and again, in slightly different words.
Conversations that turn into defending yourself.
Long silences that feel safer than talking.
Feeling unheard, even when nothing is wrong on the surface.
Growing apart while sharing the same home.
Trust that has been shaken and not yet repaired.
Intimacy that has quietly gone missing.
Decisions about money, in-laws or parenting that never settle.
Two people who still care - and no longer know how to reach each other.
None of this means the relationship is beyond help. It usually means you have been trying to solve it with the same tools for too long.
What we believe about relationships
Therapy is not about deciding who is right.
Conflict is not the problem
Almost every relationship has recurring disagreements. What changes outcomes is how a couple moves through them - and whether both people feel safe enough to stay in the conversation.
Both people make sense
Therapy is not a courtroom. Our work is not to decide who is right, but to make each person's experience understandable to the other.
Patterns, not villains
Most couples are not fighting each other. They are caught in a pattern - pursue and withdraw, criticise and defend - that neither of them chose.
Repair is a skill
Being able to return after a rupture, take responsibility and reconnect can be learned. That skill is often what separates couples who recover from those who drift.
How the therapy works
A clear path, not an open-ended conversation.
You will always know where you are in the process and what the next step is for.
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We listen to both of you
A first session where each person is heard properly - what has been happening, what it has cost, and what each of you hope for.
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Individual sessions first, when helpful
Sometimes each partner needs personal space to speak freely before the shared work begins in the sessions. It builds honesty without turning therapy into taking sides.
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Assessments where they add clarity
Relationship, emotional and where relevant psychological assessments help us understand what is stress, what is style and what may need individual support such as depression, anxiety or trauma.
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We see the pattern together
The cycle gets named out loud - who reaches, who retreats, what triggers what. Once a couple can see the pattern, they stop fighting each other and start working on it.
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We help you see the other side
Softer, slower conversations where the fear or hurt underneath the anger becomes speakable - and hearable.
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You practise something different
Concrete, doable changes in how you argue, repair, spend time and make decisions - practised in sessions and then at home.
Evidence-based approaches we draw on
The method is chosen for your relationship, not applied to it.
Every approach is chosen for the relationship in front of us.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Working with the emotions and needs beneath the conflict. EFT helps partners identify the cycle they get stuck in, and reach for each other from vulnerability instead of criticism or withdrawal.
The Gottman approach
Practical skills for conflict, friendship and repair. Structured work on softened start-ups, managing flooding, repair attempts, and rebuilding the everyday friendship that carries a relationship.
Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy
Examining the assumptions each partner brings. Interpretations like 'they do not care' harden quickly. CBCT tests those conclusions and replaces them with more accurate, workable ones.
Integrative Behavioural Couple Therapy
Change what can change, accept what cannot. Some differences are permanent. IBCT builds tolerance and acceptance around those, while targeting the behaviours that genuinely can shift.
Family systems work
Understanding the wider family a couple lives inside. Especially relevant in Indian families, where in-laws, joint households, expectations and loyalties shape a marriage as much as the two partners do.
Solution-focused therapy
Building on what is already working. Short, focused work for couples who need momentum - identifying exceptions, small wins and next steps rather than reopening everything.
Families, not only couples
Relationships rarely sit in isolation.
A marriage lives inside a family. Sometimes the work needs to include more than two people.
Parents who disagree about parenting
Different rules, different tempers, a child caught in between. We work on one shared approach you can both stand behind.
Co-parenting after separation
Practical, low-conflict structures so children are not carrying messages between two homes.
Single-parent families
Support for the parent carrying it alone - the load, the guilt, the decisions, and space to be a person too.
In-laws, boundaries & joint families
Where loyalty to parents and loyalty to a partner collide, we help couples find boundaries that do not require rupture.
Parents and adult children
Careers, marriage choices, distance, money, caregiving - conversations that keep going wrong between generations.
Siblings and extended family
Old roles, old hurts and inherited expectations that still shape adult relationships.
One more thing
Couples therapy is not only for relationships in crisis.
Some couples come before marriage, to begin with clarity.
Some come during a major transition - a move, a baby, a job, a loss.
Some come because they want to understand each other better.
Some come alone, because one person is ready to begin.
You do not need to be at breaking point to deserve support. Coming early usually means less to repair later.
Next steps
Not sure whether your partner will come?
That is a very common starting point. Write to us with a few lines about what has been happening - we will suggest a way to begin, even if you start alone.