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What counselling for low mood can help with in Mumbai
You don’t need a diagnosis or a reason that looks big enough from outside. These are the things people bring when low mood has been weighing on them:
Things you used to enjoy going flat — hobbies, people, plans. Often the earliest and most honest sign.
Tiredness sleep doesn’t fix, mornings getting harder, everything taking more effort than it should.
Guilt, feeling like a burden, a running self-criticism you’d never accept aimed at anyone else.
Pulling back from friends and family without quite deciding to, and the loneliness that follows.
Feeling flat or empty rather than tearful — the version of low mood that’s easiest to miss and dismiss.
Drift after a setback, a loss or a change — where low mood and feeling directionless feed each other.
What the pressure looks like here
What Mumbai adds is a shortage of time and a shortage of space. Two hours each way is a normal commute. A flat shared with three generations is a normal flat. Between them, a lot of people here have nowhere to be alone and not one hour that belongs to them. Distress that would surface somewhere else gets folded into a day with no room to notice it.
Then there’s the local script about coping. Mumbai’s picture of itself is a city that keeps going, and it does, and that’s worth something. It also slides easily into the belief that struggling means you personally lacked stamina. People turn up to a first session having already decided they should have managed this on their own.
For students it runs along the HSC and CET calendar, the medical and engineering funnel, and a tight cluster of colleges where the gap between two of them gets treated as the gap between two entire lives.
How it works
The PHQ-4 is a short, well-known low-mood and anxiety scale. Two minutes, no sign-up, nothing saved — it helps you see how heavy the fortnight has been.
Pick a time from the live calendar and get the video-call invite straight away. Video, voice or chat — your choice.
45 minutes with the same counsellor every time. You leave with one or two concrete things to try, not a sales pitch.
What’s already available in Mumbai, and what’s missing
Some of the best psychiatric care in India is in Mumbai’s public hospitals. KEM and Sion among them, and TISS has been serious about mental health work in this city for decades. If you need a psychiatric assessment, those are the right doors to knock on.
Harder to find is an unhurried conversation when you aren’t ill. Private therapy here is about the most expensive in the country, and public services quite rightly go to the people who are worst off. That leaves the middle, struggling but functioning, not in crisis, which is where most people actually live, with the least available to them.
Sessions run online, which takes the commute out of it entirely, and the first is ₹249.
Confidential means confidential
- Nothing goes to your parents, school, college or employer. No report, no summary, not even confirmation that you turned up.
- A first name is enough to book. You don’t owe us your full name, and you don’t have to explain yourself in advance.
- The self-checks store nothing. Your answers sit in your browser and vanish when you close the tab.
- Sessions are online. No waiting room, nobody to bump into.
Who you’ll be talking to
Sachin Bajaj has an M.Sc in Clinical Psychology from Gurugram University and a PGDGC from Jamia Millia Islamia, and has worked with more than 500 students and families across India. You get the same counsellor every session — no app shuffling you between strangers who each need the story from the top.
What this is, and what it isn’t
It’s counselling support, not treatment: confidential conversations about what you’re carrying and what might help. We don’t diagnose conditions and we don’t prescribe medication, and this isn’t an emergency service. If what you describe needs a psychiatrist, your counsellor will tell you so in the first session and help you find one. You won’t be sold a package instead.
What a session costs in Mumbai
₹499 for 45 minutes, and your first one is ₹249 with the code FIRST50. Private counselling in India usually runs ₹1,500 to ₹3,000 a session. You’re not signing up for a course of treatment — you’re booking one conversation, and you can stop after it.
Book a first session — ₹249
Pick a slot from the live calendar and the video-call invite arrives straight away. Video, voice or chat, whichever suits you.
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Frequently asked questions
Do I have to travel for a session?
No, and in Mumbai that’s often the deciding factor. Sessions are online by video, voice or chat, so a session costs you forty-five minutes rather than forty-five minutes plus three hours of travel.
I share a home and have no privacy. How do people manage a session?
Most commonly by voice or chat rather than video, with headphones, from wherever is workable — including a parked car or an office meeting room. It is a very common constraint here and it’s worth saying up front rather than deciding a session is impossible.
Can we talk in Marathi?
Sessions run in Hindi or English. If Marathi is the language you think in, it’s worth saying so at the start — a lot can be accommodated in how a session is run, and it is better to raise it than to work in a language that makes the difficult parts harder to reach.
Is ₹249 really the full cost of a first session?
Yes, for a 45-minute first session with code FIRST50; sessions after that are ₹499. Mumbai private therapy commonly runs several times that, which is exactly why this is priced the way it is.
Can counselling help with depression?
Often, yes — especially for mild to moderate low mood, where counselling, support and small changes make a real difference. More severe depression sometimes needs medication alongside, and a counsellor will tell you honestly.
I feel numb rather than sad. Is that still worth talking about?
Yes. Loss of feeling — not enjoying anything, feeling flat or empty — is a core feature of depression and is often missed. It’s very much worth talking through.