About
Home isn't always a place — sometimes it's the people who get it without you having to explain.
I'm Srividya, and I work with Indians and NRIs navigating life between two worlds.
Things look good on paper — good job, good visa status, a life your family can point to with pride — and yet there are days it feels like you're holding your breath.
The loneliness that doesn't show up in the photos you send home. The exhaustion of translating yourself between two worlds. The guilt when you finally set a boundary with your parents, and the resentment when you don't.
I hold a Master's in Public Health and a Master's in Counselling Psychology, with advanced training in CBT and DBT, and ten years of experience working with people through anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, burnout and relationship difficulties.
What I bring to the Indian and NRI community specifically isn't just that training — it's lived experience. I was raised in India and have since lived in Canada, Switzerland, the US and the UK. I know what it's like to be homesick in a place you chose, and to feel caught between what you were raised to want and what you're only just realising you actually want.
What I help with
Some of what people bring
Caught between two worlds
Feeling too “Western” for home and too foreign where you live now.
Family expectations and guilt
Boundaries with parents, pressure around marriage or career choices, the guilt of not being there when something happens back home.
Relationships
Cross-cultural relationships, arranged marriage pressure, dating in a culture that does not run on the rules you grew up with.
Burnout and the pressure to prove it was worth it
The quiet exhaustion of having to justify the move, the visa, the distance, to everyone back home.
Isolation
Friendships that do not go deep, and missing a support system you did not realise you relied on until it was gone.
Anxiety, depression, trauma and grief
Including grief that does not get much space — mourning a version of home that has changed, or missing milestones from a distance.
Major transitions
A new country, a new job, becoming a parent, divorce, or becoming someone your family back home does not quite recognise anymore.
If nothing above quite names it, that's alright too. A lot of people arrive without a tidy label for what they're feeling — that's usually part of what we work out together.
Training
Qualifications
- Master's in Counselling Psychology
- Master's in Public Health
- Advanced training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Advanced training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Ten years' experience with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, burnout and relationship difficulties
- Lived experience across India, Canada, Switzerland, the US and the UK
What I believe
How I work
We won't just talk in circles.
We get underneath the stress to what's actually going on, and then build something practical — tools you can actually use, at a pace that doesn't feel like one more thing to keep up with.
Every plan is different.
Because every person sitting across from me is. Nothing is a template, and we revisit what we're doing as your life abroad changes.
You start wherever you actually are.
A free 15-minute call first — no obligation, just a chance to ask questions. From there, sessions run 55 minutes, with no pressure to arrive with the “right” things to say.
Next stepBegin
You do not have to explain yourself from the beginning.
A free 15-minute call is a gentle way to begin and see whether this feels like the right fit. No obligation, and nothing to prepare.