Therapy for NRIs
Therapy for NRIs who are holding more than they show.
Being an NRI is a specific kind of in-between: rooted nowhere quite the way you were, answerable to two countries at once, and expected to be quietly grateful for all of it. Therapy here starts from that reality — not around it.
What this can look like
The weight of being the one who left
Being the family's pride — and its pressure
You are the success story told at weddings. That pride is real, and so is the pressure that comes with it: no room to struggle, no acceptable way to say the move has been hard.
Visa limbo and the maths of staying or going
Renewals, dependents, residency clocks, the endless calculation of whether to stay or return. Living in a conditional status for years does something to a nervous system, and it deserves more than a shrug.
Duty, remittances and saying yes when you mean no
The money sent home, the favours you can't refuse, the boundaries that feel like betrayal. Caring for family across a distance is love — and it can also quietly hollow you out.
Parenting third-culture kids
Your children are growing up fluent in a world you arrived in as an adult. Holding onto language, faith and family ways while they become someone new is tender, exhausting work.
The question of what 'back' even means now
Return visits that feel like tourism, a home town that has moved on, a passport that says one thing and a heart that says another. Where you belong becomes a genuine question — and it's allowed to be one.
If you recognised yourself in more than one of these, that's not a coincidence. These are NRI patterns, not personal failures — and they respond well to being talked through properly.
Working with Srividya
A therapist who has lived this life too
I'm Srividya — Indian by upbringing, and an NRI myself for years before settling in the UK. I've lived in Canada, Switzerland and the US, so the NRI experience isn't a case study to me; it's a biography I partly share.
My training is 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.
What clients usually notice first is the absence of translation. You can say 'my parents expect…' and we are already three steps into the real conversation, not stuck at the explanation.
How sessions work
Online, worldwide, on UK time
Everything happens online by secure video, so it works whether you're in Toronto, Dubai, New Jersey or Berlin. I hold sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and across the weekend, UK time — mornings for North America, evenings for the Gulf.
The first step is a free 15-minute intro call: no forms, no commitment, just a conversation to see if this feels right. Fees are published openly on the services page in GBP, USD, CAD, EUR and AED.
Helpful reading
Writing on life between cultures
Identity · 7 min read
Belonging to two places at once
Too foreign here, too changed there. Identity abroad is not a problem to be solved, but it does need somewhere to be thought about.
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?
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.