Therapy for Indians abroad
Therapy for Indians abroad — support that crosses time zones.
Living abroad asks things of you that people back home can't always see: the translating, the pretending you're fine on calls, the slow realisation that home has moved on without you. This is online therapy built specifically around that life.
What this can look like
What living abroad actually does to you
The loneliness that doesn't show in the photos
You have colleagues, a WhatsApp group, weekend plans. You are also lonelier than you have ever been — because nobody here already knows you, and everyone back home gets the edited version.
Relocation grief
You can grieve a place, a language, a version of yourself. Home changes while you're away — weddings missed, grandparents gone, streets you no longer recognise. That grief rarely gets space, and it needs some.
Guilt about parents back home
Every good day here can carry a shadow: the parents ageing without you, the emergencies you're a flight away from, the question of whether you're a good son or daughter if you're this far away.
Successful on paper, exhausted underneath
The job, the visa, the apartment — from the outside, the plan worked. From the inside it can feel like holding your breath for years, because stopping was never part of the deal you made with yourself.
Relationships under a new kind of strain
Marriages compressed into one flat far from family, dating in a culture with different rules, friendships that never quite go deep. Distance changes every relationship you have — including the one with yourself.
You don't need to be in crisis for this to be worth doing. Tired, flat, quietly anxious or just tired of translating yourself — all of those are reason enough.
Working with Srividya
A therapist who has lived this life too
I'm Srividya, a counsellor raised in India and now based in the UK, and I've lived abroad myself for years — across Canada, Switzerland, the US and the UK. The time-zone maths, the carefully cheerful phone calls, the homesickness in a place you chose: none of that needs explaining here.
I hold a Master's in Counselling Psychology and a Master's in Public Health, with advanced training in CBT and DBT, and ten years of experience with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, burnout and relationship difficulties.
The work is practical as well as deep — we get underneath what's going on, and we build tools you can actually use in the week between sessions, wherever in the world that week is happening.
How sessions work
Online, worldwide, on UK time
Sessions are online by secure video, so you can work with me from almost anywhere in the world. I see clients on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and at weekends, UK time — slots that land as mornings in North America and evenings in the Gulf.
We start with a free 15-minute intro call, so you can ask anything and get a feel for how I work before committing to anything. Fees, session lengths and couple options are all listed openly on the services page.
Helpful reading
Writing on life between cultures
Burnout · 5 min read
Successful abroad, and exhausted underneath
The job, the visa, the flat, the photographs. From the outside it looks like the plan worked. Why does it feel like holding your breath?
Family · 5 min read
The guilt of being the one who left
Missed birthdays, an ageing parent, a hospital call at 3am. Distance has its own grief, and it rarely gets named.
Common questions
Asked often, answered honestly
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.