COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGIST - HYDERABAD & ONLINE INDIA
Therapy services in Hyderabad and online - what I work with
Individual therapy for adults and adolescents in-person in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad and online across India and for Indians living worldwide. Every person receives a tailored approach, not a standard programme.
SERVICE 01
Anxiety Therapy & Stress Management
ACT · CBT · Somatic
Anxiety is not a character flaw. It's the nervous system's response to threat often working overtime in a world that can genuinely be overwhelming. Whether you're dealing with generalised anxiety disorder, panic attacks, social anxiety, health anxiety, or the relentless pressure of a high-demand life, anxiety therapy in Hyderabad and online offers a space to understand what's driving it and develop a different relationship with it.
In anxiety therapy, I combine CBT therapy (examining the thought patterns that maintain anxiety), ACT therapy (helping you hold difficult thoughts without being controlled by them), and somatic therapy techniques for nervous system regulation so calm becomes something you can access, not just hope for. Stress management therapy addresses the broader life context: work demands, relational stress, identity pressure and the chronic overload many people navigate quietly.
You might benefit from this if you're experiencing:
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Persistent worry you can't switch off
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Difficulty being present or sleeping
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Avoiding situations that trigger anxiety
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Physical symptoms: tight chest, racing heart
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Feeling on edge or easily overwhelmed
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Panic attacks or anticipatory anxiety
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Burnout or chronic emotional exhaustion
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Perfectionism, people-pleasing, difficulty saying no
SERVICE 02
Trauma Therapy & PTSD
Trauma-Informed · CCTP-II
Trauma isn't always a single dramatic event. It can be chronic, relational, developmental or collective , the result of experiences that overwhelmed the nervous system's capacity to cope. What all trauma has in common is that it tends to get stuck: in the body, in memory, in the way we relate to ourselves and others.
As a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP-II) the highest level of clinical trauma certification I bring specialist training to trauma therapy. Trauma-informed therapy at Priva Counselling means working carefully and collaboratively, never pushing you to revisit experiences before you're ready, and using somatic approaches alongside verbal processing. Intergenerational trauma , the inherited patterns and emotional legacies passed through families is also a central area of this work.
This includes support for:
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Childhood or developmental trauma
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Relationship trauma and emotional abuse
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Inter-generational trauma patterns
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PTSD and complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
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Intrusive memories, flashbacks
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Hypervigilance, emotional numbing
SERVICE 03
Depression Therapy
CBT · Person-Centred
Depression can make everything feel heavier including the idea of seeking help. Whether it arrives as persistent sadness, emptiness, loss of motivation, difficulty feeling pleasure, or a quiet disconnection from life, depression therapy in Hyderabad and online offers a space to begin making sense of it without pressure or timeline.
My approach to depression therapy combines CBT examining thought patterns and behaviours that maintain low mood with person-centred work that honours the emotional reality of depression without pathologising it. We move at your pace. The work is always collaborative: you know yourself better than any framework does.
Depression therapy may help if you experience:
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Persistent low mood or sadness
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Loss of motivation or interest in life
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Emotional numbness or emptiness
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Withdrawing from people and activities
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Difficulty concentrating or making decisions
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Persistent negative thoughts about yourself or the future
SERVICE 04
Grief Counselling & Loss
Advanced Grief Certified
Grief is one of the most universal and most misunderstood human experiences. We're often given scripts for it stages to move through, timelines to meet that don't match the messy, non-linear reality of actually losing something. I hold advanced specialist training in grief counselling because I believe loss deserves more than reassurance.
Grief counselling at Priva Counselling isn't about getting over it. It's about learning to carry what can't be put down, and finding a way to continue living fully alongside it. This includes bereavement counselling, grief following relationship endings, identity loss, disenfranchised grief (losses others don't recognise), and the anticipatory grief of caring for someone who is seriously ill.
Grief counselling includes support for loss of:
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A person bereavement, sudden or expected
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A relationship separation, divorce, estrangement
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Identity role, career, body image, life direction
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A pregnancy or fertility journey
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Disenfranchised grief losses others don't see
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Home and belonging for Indians living abroad
SERVICE 05
Relationship Counselling & Self-Esteem Therapy
Individual Therapy
Relationship counselling at Priva Counselling is offered as individual therapy exploring your patterns, needs and ways of relating, rather than working with a couple together. Difficulties in relationships rarely come from nowhere: they're usually connected to earlier experiences of attachment, trust and love that shaped how you learned to connect
Self-esteem therapy addresses the relationship you have with yourself — your sense of worth, the inner critic, the stories you carry about who you are and what you deserve. This work and relationship counselling frequently overlap, because how we relate to ourselves deeply shapes how we relate to everyone else.
This work supports:
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Repeated patterns across relationships
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Difficulty with trust or emotional intimacy
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Family conflict and boundary difficulties
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Loneliness despite having relationships
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Codependency or emotional caretaking
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Recovering from a painful relationship
SERVICE 06
Online Therapy for Indians & Indians Living Abroad
Online · Culturally Sensitive
Online therapy for Indians and Indians living abroad is one of Priva Counselling's primary services. As an Indian counselling psychologist with deep understanding of Indian family systems, cultural expectations, and the specific pressures of diaspora life, Prerana offers something Western therapists often cannot: a space where you don't have to explain your entire cultural context before the real work can begin.
Therapy for Indians living abroad addresses the unique emotional challenges for their life identity conflict, intergenerational family pressure, cultural adjustment, loneliness, career-driven migration and its emotional cost, and the grief of building a life far from home. Sessions are via secure video call and scheduled to accommodate different time zones across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, UAE and Singapore.
Online therapy for NRIs covers:
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Cultural identity and belonging conflicts
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Intergenerational pressure and family expectations
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Cultural adjustment and migration grief
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Loneliness and isolation abroad
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Anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties
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Therapy in English with full cultural fluency