About Mindful Counselling
A calm, neutral room for the conversations that matter most
We started Mindful Counselling because too many couples in Chennai wait years before getting real support — long after a pattern has hardened. We wanted a space that felt approachable long before "crisis," and useful whether you're navigating a rough patch, a big decision, or simply want to get better at being a team.
Our approach
Counselling without sides, jargon, or a clock ticking down
Every session is built around one idea: both partners deserve to be heard equally, and change happens through practical tools, not lectures.
Sreeja Syamala
Lead Counsellor & Founder
Sreeja has spent over a decade working with couples and individuals across Chennai, specialising in communication breakdown, trust repair, and pre-marital preparation. Her approach blends structured, evidence-informed methods with a conversational, judgement-free style — the goal is always tools you can use at home, not just a good hour in the room.
She started Mindful Counselling after noticing the same pattern again and again in her early practice: couples arriving only once things felt unfixable, having quietly carried a disagreement for years before naming it out loud. That observation shaped the way sessions here are run — direct, unhurried, and built to catch a pattern long before it hardens into something bigger.
- 10+ years working specifically with couples and relationships
- Trained in structured, evidence-informed couple therapy methods
- Additional focus on pre-marital preparation and trust repair after infidelity
- Works with clients across Chennai, the rest of India, and NRI couples abroad
How we got here
Built around what couples actually needed, not a fixed program
Mindful Counselling didn't start as a clinic with a rigid method attached — it started as a response to a gap. Couples across Chennai had access to individual therapy, but very few counsellors trained specifically in relationship work, and almost nobody offering pre-marital preparation as a standard, expected step rather than a rare exception.
Over ten years and 500+ couples, the approach has stayed consistent even as the format expanded to include online sessions for NRI couples and those simply juggling busy schedules across the city. What hasn't changed is the belief that most relationship pain isn't a sign something is broken — it's a sign a pattern needs naming, and a skill needs practising.
Today, Mindful Counselling works across three areas — couple counselling, individual counselling, and pre-marital preparation — treated not as separate products but as different entry points into the same underlying work: helping two people understand each other more accurately, and communicate more honestly.
What we hold onto
Four things that don't change, whoever you see
Neutrality, always
We don't referee or assign blame. Our job is to help both of you feel heard and understood — even mid-disagreement — and to name patterns rather than pick a winner.
Confidentiality first
What's shared in session stays in session, in line with standard professional practice — full stop. Individual sessions stay confidential even from a partner also in couple sessions with us.
Practical over theoretical
Every session aims to leave you with something usable at home the same evening — a phrase to try, a habit to start — not just a good conversation in the room.
Your pace, reviewed honestly
There's no fixed-length program you're locked into. We check in on progress regularly and say so plainly when we think fewer, or more, sessions would serve you better.
10+
Years in practice
500+
Couples supported
5.0
Average Google rating
2
Ways to meet — in person or online
Where we are
Ashok Nagar, Chennai — or wherever you are
No. 95/2, 11th Avenue, Ashok Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600083. Minutes from the metro, with secure video sessions for couples anywhere in India or abroad.
In person, Ashok Nagar
A quiet, private room a short walk from the metro — easy to reach whether you're coming from work or home.
Online, anywhere
Secure video sessions for couples elsewhere in India, NRI couples abroad, or simply when getting across town isn't realistic that week.