A transnational counseling network

You can neither undo your past, nor let it haunt your present.

A specialist multi-city counseling network for relationship problem solving, child counseling, executive coaching, and life mentoring. Face to face across Ahmedabad and Mumbai (India) and London (UK), and through private video sessions worldwide.

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About

Thoughtful counseling for considered lives.

What started as a platform to help individuals navigate difficult moments has grown into a transnational practice. Couple therapy became our forte; quiet, word of mouth referrals carried us across cities and continents. We strictly maintain client anonymity, which is why you will not find testimonials here, only the work itself.

Thought Counsel is a small, deliberate practice operating across India and the United Kingdom. Our work focuses on understanding and intervening in patterns of behaviour, whether personal or professional, acute or longstanding.

Clients come to us for many reasons. Some arrive in the middle of a relationship that no longer feels like their own. Others arrive worried about a child, about work, about themselves. We do not specialise in a single school of thought; we specialise in finding what each person actually needs.

Alongside private sessions, we run corporate workshops, leadership programmes, and seminars on mental wellness for organisations across India, the UK, and continental Europe. Established 2015.

Sagarika Shah and Tarun Bulchandani, founders of Thought Counsel
Mission

What we are here to do

Unlock the secrets of life transformation and demystify the complexities of human relationships for everyday people.

Vision

How we work

Address the root of the problem at hand. An integrated approach can dissolve disturbances in mental and behavioural equilibrium.

Credo

What we believe

The significance of thoughts is often underestimated. Perception shapes everything. With the right frame of mind, any obstacle can be challenged and conquered.

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others merely a green thing that stands in the way.”
– William Blake
Our approach

Therapy is not one size fits all.

We follow a structured but personal approach. The five techniques below are blended for each client. Direct, friendly, unbiased, and built on the working principle that a client should leave equipped, not dependent.

Assessment

Every therapy begins here. The first step toward gauging an individual and the contour of the problem.

Observation & Interview

Especially effective with children. After careful observation, the right questions surface naturally.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Insight-oriented work that examines unconscious processes as they manifest in present behaviour, and the influence of the past on the now.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

A talking therapy that helps manage problems by changing how one thinks and behaves. Practical, structured, evidence-based.

Brief Therapy

Solution-focused, goal-directed, and finite. Includes SFBT, brief psychodynamic, and emotion-focused approaches. Typically 8 to 25 sessions.

Couple & Systemic Therapy

Tavistock-rooted work on the dynamics between people, not only within them. Couple and family sessions examining the patterns of relating and the system that holds difficulty in place.

How we help

Where our work most often begins.

Most clients arrive in one of four areas. The work itself is rarely confined to a single category. We follow the thread wherever it leads, drawing on the technique best suited to the moment.

Relationships

Couples and relationship therapy

Tavistock-trained relationship therapy for couples and individuals working through disconnection, recurring conflict, infidelity, communication breakdown, and intimacy. We use cognitive-behavioural and psychodynamic methods to help you understand what is actually going on between you, and what to do about it. Available face to face in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and London, or via private video sessions worldwide.

  • Couples counseling and marriage therapy
  • Pre-marital and pre-commitment work
  • Conflict resolution and communication coaching
  • Separation, divorce, and co-parenting support
Children and young people

Child and adolescent counseling

Specialist counseling for children and teenagers facing behavioural, emotional, or developmental challenges. We work with families navigating broken homes, school anxiety, peer relationships, and the long shadow of difficult early experiences. Our approach builds resilience by helping young people make sense of what they feel, supported by parents and carers who understand what is happening.

  • Resilience and self-esteem building
  • Behavioural and emotional difficulties
  • Adjustment to family transitions and trauma
  • Developmental assessment and support
Executive and career

Executive coaching and leadership development

One to one executive coaching for senior leaders, founders, and high-performing professionals navigating transitions, performance pressure, and personal growth. Engagements draw on behavioural-change frameworks, 360 degree feedback, and psychometrics to surface what is actually getting in the way. Delivered in person across India and the UK or remotely, with optional team workshops and culture programmes for organisations.

  • Leadership and executive coaching
  • Career transitions and professional change
  • Organisational behaviour and culture work
  • Workshops, group programmes, and feedback systems
Mental wellness

Individual therapy for adults

Confidential one to one therapy for adults working through anxiety, trauma, conflict, identity, and the patterns that quietly run our lives. We help you recognise automatic thoughts, beliefs, and reactions, and give you practical tools to work with them. Sessions are offered in person across Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and London, and via secure video for clients anywhere in the world.

  • Anxiety, stress, and burnout
  • Trauma and post-traumatic adjustment
  • Personality, identity, and self-esteem work
  • Emotional intelligence and relationship patterns
The team

Meet the practitioners.

A small, deliberate practice. Sagarika brings the clinical lens of a psychologist; Tarun brings the change-facilitator perspective of a life coach. Together we cover the spectrum from therapy to coaching.

Sagarika Shah, Psychologist and Relationship Therapist
Psychologist · Relationship therapist

Sagarika Shah

M.A. Psychology · MBA, Human Resources · Tavistock-trained

Sagarika’s training at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships in London, paired with her academic grounding in psychology and human resources, gives her a rare double-lens on human behaviour. She works with individuals and couples to catalyse self-mastery and foster deeper connection in their relationships.

Counseling children and young adults is her forte. Continuous interaction and consultation with her European counterparts keep her current. Her approach is neutral, non-judgmental, and consciously balanced.

Specialties · Relationships and couples · Child development · Organisational behaviour
Tarun Bulchandani, Executive Coach and Life Coach
Life coach · Change facilitator

Tarun Bulchandani

Executive coach · International experience across two continents

A unique convergence of human and technical expertise. Tarun focuses on generating mindset by maximising a person’s creative self-worth, supporting goal setting, personal growth, and behaviour modification through frameworks proven across his career.

Having lived in four countries across two continents, his exposure to different cultures shapes his perspective on what matters in coaching: practical knowledge, candid feedback, and frameworks people can take with them when the work is done.

Specialties · Leadership coaching · Executive coaching
Writing

Essays on relationships, mind, and meaning.

Sagarika writes regularly about the patterns we carry into our relationships, the way we treat children, and the small choices that compound into a life. Recent pieces include “Better Alone Than Lonely Together,” “Can Money Make or Mar Your Relationship?” and “The Country of Control Freaks.”

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Sessions are available face to face in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and London, and via private encrypted video anywhere in the world. Initial enquiries are confidential and answered personally, usually within 24 to 48 hours.

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Mumbai

Raheja Sherwood, Western Express Highway,
Goregaon (E), Mumbai 400 063, India

+91 99 30 00 14 95

Ahmedabad

By appointment.

+91 99 30 00 14 95

London

By appointment.

Worldwide via video

Private, encrypted sessions on request.

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