Career counselling for the part a test can't answer

Therapy. In India, career counselling usually means aptitude testing and stream selection — you take a test, you get a report suggesting fields. That is a useful thing, and it is not what happens here. Sessions here work on the part that a test cannot answer: why the decision feels impossible, what you actually want as opposed to what you have absorbed from family and from everyone else's timeline, and the anxiety, comparison and procrastination underneath it. If a formal aptitude or psychometric assessment is what you are after, see our assessments page instead.

No, and be wary of anyone who says they will. Your therapist will not hand you a job title or a recommended field. What sessions do is get you to a place where you can make the decision yourself with a clearer head — separating your own preferences from inherited expectations, understanding what keeps you stuck at the point of choosing, and testing options against what actually matters to you rather than what sounds defensible at a wedding.

A 50-minute session with Charul Rawat, a counselling psychologist, is ₹1,200 online and ₹1,500 at the Green Park clinic. With Palak Sharma, also a counselling psychologist, it is ₹1,400 online and ₹1,800 at the clinic. There is no package and no minimum number of sessions, and you can pay by cash or UPI at the clinic.

Start with Charul if the difficulty is the decision itself — not knowing what you want, being stuck between options, or feeling behind everyone your age. Career and identity concerns are her listed specialty and she works mainly with students, graduates and people early in their careers. Start with Palak if you are further into your working life and the question keeps coming back, if part of you wants to leave and part of you cannot, or if anxiety, overthinking or self-worth is the bigger part of it — she works with adults, using CBT, Internal Family Systems and body-based practices. If you have felt low for months regardless of the job, or suspect something clinical underneath, tell us when you message and we will point you to one of our clinical psychologists instead. If you are unsure, message us and we will suggest one.

Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons people come. A job that looks right from the outside and feels wrong from the inside is genuinely difficult to talk about, because everyone around you can list the reasons you should be grateful. Sessions here start from the fact that you are not, rather than from why you should be.

This is standard territory here rather than an unusual case. Sessions look at what is actually yours and what you absorbed, how to have the conversation without it becoming a fight, and what you can live with — including the possibility of disappointing people you love. Nobody will tell you to defy your family, and nobody will tell you to comply.

Yes. The pattern usually involves discounting your own competence, attributing success to luck or timing, and waiting to be found out — often alongside overworking to stay ahead of the exposure. CBT work examines those conclusions against actual evidence rather than trying to talk you into confidence you do not feel.

It varies. Some people find that six to eight sessions is enough to get unstuck on a specific decision. Where the difficulty is longer-standing — years of following a path someone else chose, or self-worth entirely tied to achievement — it takes longer. Nobody will ask you to commit to a package in advance.

Therapy can help you decide, but it will not make the decision for you and it will not push you either way. One caution worth knowing: if you are exhausted rather than merely dissatisfied, the exhaustion narrows your options and makes leaving feel like the only one. Where that seems to be the case we will say so, and burnout is worth addressing first so the decision is made from a steadier place.

Not in the stream-selection sense. For a school student deciding between subjects, an aptitude and interest assessment is the appropriate tool and that is handled separately by our clinical psychologists. What this service covers for younger clients is the pressure around the decision — exam stress, fear of disappointing parents, and paralysis at the point of choosing.