Shri Devdarshan is one of the best and honest counsellor I have met. He is very kind and a humble person and his counseling sessions were lovely and peaceful.
SiD
Google · 2026
Integrative Counselling Psychology
Psychology that understands the whole of you
A clinically rigorous, integrative approach to mental well-being — for those who have always sensed that conventional therapy addresses the surface, while something deeper remains untouched.
Sessions in English, हिंदी or नेपाली — online, anywhere.
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What brings you here
- A body that stays braced for something that has not happened yet. Therapy for Anxiety
- The same thought, arriving again, having solved nothing the first forty times. Therapy for Overthinking and Rumination
- Knowing what you want to do, and finding the days pass without doing it. Therapy for Indecision and Feeling Stuck
- Not sadness exactly. More that things have stopped registering. Therapy for Low Mood and Depression
- Something ended, and the ground has not settled since. Therapy After Loss or Major Change
- The symptoms improved. The thing underneath them did not move. When Therapy Helped but Did Not Resolve It
- A life assembled properly, and a persistent sense that it is not yours. Therapy for Questions of Meaning and Direction
- The same situation, with different people, arriving again. Therapy for Patterns That Keep Repeating
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Who We Are
A practice grounded in two traditions
At Anandoham Health, we practise an integrative form of counselling psychology grounded in both Western clinical science and the knowledge systems of the Bharatiya tradition. Our work begins with your immediate distress — and goes further.
Lasting well-being is not simply the absence of symptoms. It is clarity about who you are.
Sessions are conducted online via Zoom in English, Hindi, and Nepali, open to anyone seeking rigorous, integrative therapy. Based in Gangtok, Sikkim, with clients worldwide.
The Practitioner
Devdarshan Bastola, GMBPsS
Born in the Himalayan foothills of Sikkim, Dev trained in the UK — BSc Biomedical Science (University of Manchester), MSc Psychology (ARU Cambridge), and an advanced diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy. He is a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society.
Alongside his clinical training, Dev has spent over nine years in rigorous study of Vedanta, Yoga, and the broader Bharatiya knowledge systems. From this dual foundation he developed Dev's Vedic Therapy (DVT) — a structured therapeutic methodology currently being prepared for academic publication.
The Method
Where precision meets depth
Every major school of psychotherapy ultimately works at the level of thought. At Anandoham Health we work within this clinical framework — and we go further.
The Bharatiya knowledge systems contain precise, systematic models of the mind: its constitution, its layers, the nature of its suffering, and the conditions for its lasting resolution. DVT integrates these with evidence-based methods — CBT, ACT, Person-Centred Therapy, and Gestalt — into a structured, replicable approach.
Designed for those for whom conventional therapy has provided relief, but not resolution.
Trained in
CBT
Cognitive Behavioural
ACT
Acceptance & Commitment
Person-Centred
Rogerian humanistic
Gestalt
Present-moment dialogue
Writing
From the journal
Essays on where clinical psychology and the Bharatiya knowledge systems meet, written from the consulting room.
- 7 June 20268 min read
The Cascade of Suffering: How the Bhagavad Gītā Mapped Rumination Two Thousand Years Before Nolen-Hoeksema
Two thousand years before rumination research, the Gītā's verses 2.62–63 mapped the cascade from attention to suffering. A clinical reading.
- 27 May 20267 min read
Aparigraha: The Yama That Quietly Powers Acceptance, Defusion, and the Loosening of a Stuck Life
Aparigraha, non-grasping, is the quiet mechanism beneath acceptance and defusion, and the loosening that lets a stuck life begin to move again.
- 21 May 20266 min read
Tapas: Why Therapeutic Change Requires Discomfort, and What the Yoga Sūtras Got Right About Behavioural Activation
Lasting change asks for discomfort. How tapas, disciplined heat, anticipates behavioural activation, and why avoidance keeps a stuck life stuck.
- 19 May 20267 min read
Pratyāhāra: The Vedic Protocol Modern Attention Training Has Been Reinventing for Thirty Years
Pratyāhāra, the withdrawal of the senses, is the protocol modern attention training has spent thirty years reinventing. What the original got right.
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The path to clarity begins with a single conversation. Whatever brings you here — anxiety, depression, a sense of incompleteness — this is a place where it can be understood at its root.
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