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Meet Snigdha: A Therapist Who Believes the Personal Is Always Worth Understanding
Meet Snigdha, a warm, human counselling psychologist at Hibiscus who works in English, Tamil and Telugu and helps you understand the why behind who you are.
Hibiscus Counselling
7 days ago4 min read
Before We Begin: A Guided Workbook for Couples Before Marriage
Before We Begin is a digital pre-marital workbook that guides couples through the real questions to ask before marriage, at their own pace.
Hibiscus Counselling
Oct 11 min read
The Conversations Most Couples Skip Before Marriage
The hardest premarital conversations are the ones couples avoid. Here is why the skipped questions matter most, and how to actually have them.
Hibiscus Counselling
Oct 11 min read
Questions to Ask Your Partner Before Getting Married
The real questions to ask your partner before marriage, grouped by theme, from money and family to children, conflict and the future.
Hibiscus Counselling
Oct 12 min read


How to Bring Up Couples Counselling With Your Partner
How to suggest couples counselling to your partner warmly, so it lands as care rather than criticism.
Hibiscus Counselling
Sep 291 min read


Staying Close to Your Teenager Through the Hard Years
How to stay close to your teenager through adolescence with warmth, patience and trust.
Hibiscus Counselling
Sep 291 min read


Considering Separation: How Counselling Helps You Think Clearly
A calm, neutral space to think clearly about separation and make decisions you can stand behind.
Hibiscus Counselling
Sep 292 min read


Becoming Parents Together: Keeping Your Relationship Whole Through the First Year
How to stay close and whole as a couple through the first year with a new baby.
Hibiscus Counselling
Sep 291 min read


Affirming Relationship Support for LGBTQ+ Couples in Chennai
A warm, private, fully affirming space for LGBTQ+ couples to strengthen their bond.
Hibiscus Counselling
Sep 291 min read


When Parents and Grown Children Want to Feel Understood Again
How families can help parents and grown children reconnect and feel understood across generations.
Hibiscus Counselling
Sep 291 min read


Finding Your Footing as an Inter-Caste or Inter-Faith Couple
Warm, affirming support for inter-caste and inter-faith couples navigating love across difference and family.
Hibiscus Counselling
Sep 291 min read


Settling Into Joint Family Life as a Newly Married Couple
How to protect your bond while building warm relationships at home as a newlywed in a joint family.
Hibiscus Counselling
Sep 291 min read


Premarital Counselling in India: Understanding Yourself Before You Build a Life Together
How premarital counselling in India helps you understand yourself, your values and your hopes before marriage.
Hibiscus Counselling
Sep 291 min read


Counselling at Home: Why a Warm, Private Setting Helps Couples Open Up
Why couples open up more easily in a warm, home-based counselling setting — and how a private, domestic space supports honest conversation.
Hibiscus Counselling
Sep 292 min read


Signs It Might Be Time to Sit Down With Someone Together
Gentle, honest signs that sitting down with someone together could help your relationship — offered without alarm.
Hibiscus Counselling
Sep 292 min read


Counselling at Home: Why a Warm, Private Setting Helps Couples Open Up
The room a conversation happens in shapes the conversation itself. Ask anyone where they have had their most honest talks, and they will describe a kitchen table, a long drive, a quiet living room late at night, warm, private, human places. Rarely a formal office. This simple truth sits at the heart of how we work. Hibiscus Counselling is a home-office practice in Adyar, Chennai. That is a deliberate choice, and for couples in particular, it makes a real difference to what be
Hibiscus Counselling
Aug 262 min read


Are We Just Going Through a Phase, or Is It Time for Couples Therapy? (A Self-Reflection Guide)
In our culture, we are often taught that a good relationship is simply about "adjusting." We are told that every couple fights, that marriage is hard work, and that as long as nothing is drastically broken, you just keep going. Because of this, most couples only consider therapy when they are on the absolute brink of a breakup. We tend to view relationship counselling as a courtroom—a place you go to figure out who is the "bad guy," or a last-resort emergency room for a faili
Hibiscus Counselling
Aug 263 min read


Relationship-Centred Individual Work
The relationship work you can start on your own — individual counselling focused on your relationships and the life you share with others.
Hibiscus Counselling
Aug 261 min read


Parenting Counselling
Warm parenting counselling in Chennai, from pregnancy and the new-parent year through early childhood and adolescence.
Hibiscus Counselling
Aug 262 min read


Separation & Transition Counselling
A calm, neutral space to think clearly about separation and move through relationship transitions with steadiness and self-respect.
Hibiscus Counselling
Aug 262 min read
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