The Thought Co. started as a dream three aspiring psychologists had together. Life took each of us somewhere different, and I was given the chance to carry the name forward. I still hold it as a shared thing.

It was never meant to be just a therapy practice. In my head it has always been a thought centre. A therapy space. A group of psychologists who argue with each other on purpose. Emotional wellness products that actually do something, designed by clinicians. Psychoeducation that is playful, honest, and written for the India we actually live in. And lately, research.

I'll be honest: I have never had a fixed goal for this place. What I have always had is a sense of how it should feel. Like setting your bag down after a long day. You don't have to wait until it's urgent. You don't have to arrive okay.

Who this is for

Whether you're starting therapy for the first time, lost somewhere in your 20s or 30s, holding someone else together, or just curious about how your own mind works, the door is open. That's not a tagline. It's the operating principle.

What we hold to

• Therapy should feel human, not clinical. The clinical rigour is in the work, not the tone.
• We're therapists first. Which means the client comes first, every time, including when it costs us.
• Ethics and continuous learning aren't values on a wall. They're the job.
• How you feel matters as much as what you think. Feeling is where thought begins.

We're not perfect. We don't try to be. But we are honest in the work, and we sit with the uncomfortable instead of talking over it.

If something we make lightens your load a little, a session, a journal page, one sentence on this site, that's the whole point.

About me, since you asked

You have thought about therapy the way you think about the dentist. Seriously, and then not at all. Somewhere between the second week of bad sleep and the third time you snapped at someone who did not deserve it, you typed "therapist near me", got a page of life coaches, and closed the tab. Then you told a friend you were fine. She said she was fine too. It was a lovely dinner.

Finding a therapist was never the problem. Mumbai has plenty. The problem is finding one who will not flinch when you say your mother still reads your messages, or that you are the only person in your family who knows you are queer, or that you and your husband have not had a real conversation since the wedding, or that the job everyone congratulated you on is making you ill.

You want the real training. The degrees, the hospital years, the research. And you want someone who understands, without a footnote, why you still go home for Diwali. Usually you get one or the other. The serious one who treats your family like a symptom. Or the warm one who thinks everything is a boundary.

I started The Thought Co. in 2014 because I did not think you should have to choose.

The training, since you asked. Two Master's degrees, Clinical Psychology and Counselling Psychotherapy. Years as a consulting psychologist at Holy Family Hospital and Global Hospital in Mumbai. Gottman Method for couples. Trained in Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice. POSH certified, which sounds like paperwork until you notice how much of what walks into my room started at a desk.

Of the thirty people in my graduating class, four of us still practise. I think about that more than I should.

I lead the team at The Thought Co. now, so fewer hours in the room and more spent making sure the people in it are good. What I still do is sit with adults in the middle of something. A career that stopped making sense. A marriage quieter than it used to be. An identity you have carried like a bag nobody offered to hold. I am reflective, curious, and now and then blunt. I will show you the research. I will not tell you everything will be fine. It might. That is not my line to say.

The first session is mostly you deciding whether you can stand me. Fair question.

I have written for The Swaddle, and been quoted in The Economic Times, HT Brunch, The Better India, Mid-day, The Times of India and News18. The full list is on the Quoted in, written for page.

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