Anushka Karira

Anushka Karira did not begin as a therapist. She began, as so many smart Indian young people do, as a CA article. Numbers, though, were never going to be her language — and after marriage she moved into the IT sector as an HR manager, where for the first time she noticed how much of her day was actually spent listening to human beings in distress. What she thought would be a career in operations turned out, quietly, to be training for her real vocation. Today, twenty years and 10,000+ hours of counselling, coaching, and training programs later, Anushka is one of India’s most experienced psychotherapists.

Her practice — Anushka’s Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre — addresses anxiety, depression, phobias, anger, fear, sadness, guilt, insecurities, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, and the broader work of adult self-identity and purpose. The distinctive feature is her toolkit. Rather than committing to a single modality, she draws on Past Life Regression, Inner Child Healing, Family Constellation sessions, REBT, Transactional Analysis, NLP, Music Therapy, and Art-Based Therapy. For each client she chooses the combination that will unlock the presenting problem most cleanly — and it is this eclectic skill that clients most often remark on in their testimonials.

Alongside her one-on-one practice, Anushka runs workshops for parents, corporate managers, and teams. She has guided executives through career uncertainty and built team-effectiveness programmes for organisations. She also contributes to social impact projects — one initiative helps slum children absorb moral education and values through regular sessions, and another, Quiet Time, offers one hour of meditation and therapeutic healing to reduce stress across age groups. Her LinkedIn, increasingly, has become a quiet source of leadership reflections framed through a therapist’s lens.

Clients describe Anushka as carrying an “aura of calmness” that is contagious — one of the best career counsellors and life mentors they have met. Her sessions on mindfulness and meditation, her 10-day mindfulness programmes, her work with couples and families: all are marked by the same combination of patience, spiritual depth, and practical, actionable guidance. In a profession that often leans too far into either clinical detachment or mystical vagueness, Anushka’s particular gift is that she refuses to choose. She does both — and her clients, after two decades of quiet word of mouth, keep coming back.