Online Couples Therapy in India
Every relationship carries its own weather — seasons of closeness, seasons of distance, storms that arrive without warning. Couples therapy is a space to slow that weather down — to listen to what each of you is really saying underneath the argument, and to remember the people you were before the patterns began.
I work online with couples across India and internationally. Sessions are held jointly on Google Meet, and the space is queer affirmative — open to all relationship structures and identities, without assumption.
How Couples Therapy Works Here
Couples therapy at Dandelion uses an integrative approach, drawing primarily from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Narrative Therapy — two frameworks that, together, do something powerful: they help you understand not just what keeps going wrong, but whyit keeps happening, and what story you've quietly been living inside.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)sees most recurring conflict as a kind of emotional dance — the same painful steps, over and over, even when both people are exhausted by it. EFT helps slow that dance down so we can see the softer, more vulnerable feelings underneath the frustration. Most arguments aren't really about the dishes, the in-laws, or the phone. They're about wanting to be reached, seen, chosen.
Narrative Therapy brings a different lens. It treats the story a couple has formed about each other as a living thing — one that can be examined, questioned, and gently rewritten. “He's just like that.” “She never listens.” “We've always been bad at conflict.” Narrative work helps both partners notice these stories, separate them from the people they describe, and author something more honest together.
Sessions are held jointly with both partners. Occasionally, I may suggest a brief individual check-in to support the overall process. The work is never about assigning blame. It is about understanding the pattern, softening it, and finding each other again. You can read more about how EFT works for couples and the stories we live inside.
Who Is Couples Therapy For?
Recurring Conflict
You keep having the same argument in different costumes. Small disagreements escalate quickly. You feel stuck in a familiar cycle of blame, withdrawal, or shutdown — and you can sense it coming before it begins.
Emotional Distance
You feel more like roommates than partners. Affection has thinned. Conversations have grown functional. You're not in crisis — but something tender has gone quiet, and you both feel it.
Trust & Repair
Trust has been broken — through betrayal, dishonesty, or quietly unmet expectations. You want to rebuild, but you don't yet know how to talk about what happened without re-opening the wound.
Life Transitions
A change is reshaping the relationship — moving cities, becoming parents, navigating careers, blending families, holding cultural pressure. You're both adjusting, and the old way of being together no longer quite fits.
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What to Expect in Sessions
Slowing the Dance Down
Most couples come in mid-argument — sometimes literally. Early sessions focus on slowing the cycle down enough to actually see it: who reaches, who withdraws, what each of you is afraid of underneath.
Naming the Story You've Been Living
We look at the stories you've each formed — about your partner, about yourselves, about the relationship. Some are true. Some are inherited. Some were once true but no longer are. We give you both space to question them gently and write something new.
Being Heard Without Judgment
Both partners get equal space. My role isn't to be a referee or to decide who's right — it's to make sure each of you feels heard, even by the other person, especially in places where listening has felt impossible.
A Confidential, Queer Affirmative Space
What's shared in sessions stays in sessions. The space is non-judgmental and free of assumption — open to all relationship structures, all identities, all the ways love can look.
A Note on My Approach
I work as an individual therapist primarily through Transactional Analysis, but couples work, I've come to believe, asks for a different choreography. The intimate, embodied, often non-verbal pull between two people in a long relationship needs a framework built for relational emotion — which is why EFT sits at the heart of my couples practice. Narrative work adds the layer that lets you both step out of the story long enough to choose a different one.
You can read more about my background and approach on the About page.