Relationship and Couples Counselling Online for Australia
Relationship counselling by video for couples and individuals in Australia. Sessions are run from New Delhi and worked around Australian evenings, which is when most couples can actually both be in the same room.
“Relationship counselling by video for couples and individuals in Australia. Sessions are run from New Delhi and worked around Australian evenings, which is when most couples can actually both be in the same room.”
Treatment & Support
Coming as a Couple, or Alone
Both work. Couples sessions with both partners on the same screen are the usual arrangement, and there is something useful about the shared frame — you are literally sitting side by side looking at the same person.
Individual work on a relationship is equally legitimate and often more realistic. One partner is willing and the other is not, or not yet. You do not need both people present to change how a relationship functions; you need one person who changes what they do inside it.
Where only one partner attends, the absent partner is not discussed as a case to be diagnosed. That would be neither fair nor useful.
What Comes Up Most
- «Communication that has degraded into the same argument in different clothes
- «Parents and in-laws, and where the boundary sits when the parents are in India and the couple is in Australia
- «Mismatched expectations about money, work, and whose career moves
- «Parenting disagreements, particularly where one partner wants a more Indian upbringing and the other a more Australian one
- «Sex and intimacy, including after children
- «Trust after an affair, a lie, or a long-running omission
- «Migration strain — one partner settled, the other still grieving what was left behind
The Cross-Cultural Piece
Where one partner is of Indian origin and the other is not, the disagreements often are not really about the thing being argued over. How much say parents have in a couple's decisions, whether obligation is a burden or a given, how directly disagreement is expressed, how much of family life is private — these differ enormously between cultures, and both people are usually convinced their version is simply normal.
The work is rarely about deciding whose culture wins. It is about making the assumptions visible, because two people arguing from unexamined premises will keep arriving back at the same place.
Where both partners are Indian-origin but raised in different places — one in India, one in Australia — the same gap turns up in a subtler and often more frustrating form.
Migration and the Distance from Family
Couples in Australia carry a specific weight: ageing parents ten thousand kilometres away, guilt about not being there, visits that are too short and too fraught, and the question of who is expected to go back if something happens.
This puts pressure on a marriage in ways that rarely get named as the actual issue. It surfaces instead as arguments about money, about holidays, about whose family gets the annual trip.
How Sessions Are Arranged
Australian eastern time is four and a half to five and a half hours ahead of India; Perth is two and a half. An early-evening Delhi slot lands at a workable evening hour across most of Australia, which is generally when couples sessions are scheduled.
Sessions run an hour. Couples usually start weekly or fortnightly, then space out. There is no fixed programme length — you should expect to be told when the useful part is finished.
Practically: both partners on one device in one room works better than two separate screens in two rooms, unless there is a reason for the separation.
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Relationship and Couples Counselling Online for Clients in Australia
Questions & Answers
Everything you need to know before booking your first session.
Can we do couples counselling if we are in different cities?+
Yes, and it is common where one partner travels for work or where a couple is temporarily apart. Two devices in two locations is workable. Where you are in the same home, one shared screen is usually better.
Will you tell us whether to separate?+
No. That decision is yours. What counselling can do is make the decision an informed one rather than one made in the middle of the worst week you have had, and some couples do use it to separate more decently than they otherwise would have.
My partner will not come. Is there any point?+
Yes. A great deal of relationship work is done with one person. Relationships are systems, and changing one part of a system changes the whole thing.
Are you a registered psychologist in Australia?+
No. Psychologist is a protected title under AHPRA registration in Australia. Taanya works with Australian clients as a holistic counsellor and clinical hypnotherapist, holding an Australian-accredited counselling diploma and AHHA membership.
Is this covered by Medicare or private health insurance?+
No. Medicare rebates require an AHPRA-registered practitioner in Australia. Some private funds cover counselling from recognised providers — check with your fund before booking.
What if there is violence in the relationship?+
Couples counselling is not appropriate where there is violence or coercive control, and joint sessions can make matters more dangerous. In Australia, 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 is available twenty-four hours. In immediate danger, call 000.
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