Something ended, and the ground has not settled since.
Distress after loss is not a disorder to be corrected. It is a proportionate response that needs somewhere to be held while it runs its course. The work is less about reducing the feeling and more about making sure it is not carried alone, and that it does not quietly reorganise your life around avoiding it.
This may sound familiar
- Functioning adequately in public and coming apart alone
- Grief that arrives out of order, months after you expected it to
- A move or a migration that gained everything and cost something unnamed
- Being told how well you are coping while not recognising the description
The tradition treats grief as something to be moved through with attention rather than escaped. That is also what the evidence supports — avoidance extends it, and steady contact with it does not.
If you want the reasoning in full, it is set out here: Aparigraha and the mechanics of letting go. None of it is required reading, and none of it is required of you in a session.
Your first session
Mostly you talk and I listen properly. We establish what support actually exists around you, and what has been carrying weight it should not have to.
What tends to change
The intensity becomes less constant before it becomes less deep. Most people find the loss takes a settled place rather than disappearing.
Twenty minutes, credited to your first full session if you continue.
What actually happens in a first session?
We spend most of it on what brought you here and what you have already tried. Towards the end we agree what the work would involve and whether it is a fit. You will usually leave with one practice to try before we next speak. There is no assessment battery and no diagnosis handed down.
What does it cost?
A 20-minute discovery call is ₹299, credited to your first full session. Sessions run 60, 90 or 120 minutes: from ₹2,000 in India, and from ₹4,000 for clients based outside India, charged in Indian rupees. Session packages are available and reduce the per-session cost.
Can I have therapy in Hindi or Nepali?
Yes. Sessions are conducted in English, हिंदी or नेपाली, whichever you think in. You can switch between them mid-session, and many people do.
I am outside India. Does that work?
Yes, and a meaningful share of the practice is already overseas — the UK, the US, the Gulf and Singapore among them. Sessions are online, payment takes international cards, and the booking page shows every available time in your own timezone.
Is this Vedic, or Dharmic, counselling?
Yes, if that is what you are looking for. The clinical tools are the ones any good therapist uses: CBT, ACT, person-centred and Gestalt work. Around them sits a Vedic, or Dharmic, way of understanding a person, drawn from the Bhagavad Gītā, Vedānta and the Yoga Sūtras: the guṇas, the kleśas, and the question of how to live, not only how to feel better. People come to it from India and from abroad, some after years of Western therapy, some with no interest in the tradition at all. Nothing devotional is asked of you.
This page describes how this difficulty is approached in therapy. It is not a diagnosis and it is not a substitute for urgent care. If you are in immediate distress or thinking of harming yourself, please contact Tele-MANAS on 14416 (India, free, 24/7), or your local emergency services.
