Areeba Khan · Child & adolescent psychologist · EFT Level 2 practitioner · New Delhi
I work with children, teenagers and young adults on anxiety, low mood, grief, focus and the ordinary hard parts of growing up — and with the parents holding it all together. Play-based therapy, talk therapy and EFT (tapping).
The EFT tapping sequence
Who comes in
Sometimes it's the child who needs the room. Sometimes it's the parent. Often it's both, in different weeks.
Worry and clinginess, school refusal, meltdowns and anger, sleep and toilet troubles, friendship difficulties, adjusting to a new sibling, a move or a loss in the family. Sessions are play-based — drawing, stories, games — because that is how children say things they can't yet put into sentences.
Anxiety and panic, low mood, board and entrance-exam pressure, body image, self-esteem, identity, phone and social media use, conflict at home, first heartbreaks, self-harm urges. A confidential space of their own, with parents kept in the loop about progress rather than transcripts.
Parents who want to handle behaviour differently, co-parents who need one plan, and young adults carrying grief, burnout, anxiety or an early-career wobble. Grief after losing a parent is an area I've researched closely and work with often.
Services
Everything below is available in person at the South Delhi practice, and online across India. First conversations are always about fit before anything else.
Individual therapy
Weekly sessions using play, art and storytelling, with a short parent check-in built into the schedule so what happens in the room continues at home.
Individual therapy
Talk therapy that takes the pressure of being a teenager in India seriously — marks, comparison, family expectation and identity, all at once.
Family work
For parents who don't need a child in therapy so much as a plan they can actually hold to on a Tuesday evening. Practical, specific, no lectures.
Specialist modality
Emotional Freedom Techniques — gentle tapping on acupressure points while staying with a specific memory, worry or body sensation. Certified at Level 2 with EFTMRA India.
Specialist area
My master's research followed how young adults' picture of their own future shifts after losing a parent. That work sits behind this offering — including the losses nobody around you seems to be marking any more.
Developmental support
Support around autism and ADHD: early concerns, screening, making sense of a report, and translating it into what to do on Monday morning. Formal diagnosis is made in collaboration with a paediatrician or psychiatrist — I'll refer where that's needed.
The tapping bit, explained
Most people arrive having seen a video and wondering whether tapping on your face can possibly do anything. Fair question. Here's the honest version.
You name the thing precisely, rate how strongly it lands right now, then tap through nine points while staying with it. Then you rate it again.
The tapping isn't magic and it isn't a replacement for therapy — it's a way of staying with something difficult while your body stays calm enough to keep looking at it. Most people notice the intensity drop within a round or two, and the specific memory or worry loses some of its charge.
I use EFT inside ordinary therapy rather than instead of it, and only where it fits. You'll leave the first session able to do a round on your own between appointments — the tool is meant to become yours.
EFT is a complementary technique. It is not a substitute for psychiatric care or medication, and I'll say so plainly if that's what a situation calls for.
One round · in order
Getting started
You don't need a diagnosis, a referral or the right words to begin. You need about fifteen minutes to start with.
STEP 01
You describe what's going on, I tell you honestly whether I'm the right person. If I'm not, I'll name someone who is. No charge and no obligation either way.
STEP 02
For children, this one is usually with parents alone: history, worries, what you've already tried. For teenagers and adults, it's with you. Nothing is asked that you're not ready to answer.
STEP 03
By the third session you'll have a plain-language sense of what we're working on, roughly how long it may take, and what changes at home. Reviewed every few weeks, out loud.
Beyond the therapy room
Half-day and full-day sessions for teachers, counsellors and playschool staff — practical, classroom-shaped, and built around the children they're actually teaching.
For students choosing a master's, hunting for an internship, or wondering whether clinical work is really for them. I've been answering these questions in DMs for years — this is the tidier version.
Fees & practicalities
| Session | Length | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Introductory call | 15 min | Free |
| Child therapy session | 45 min | ₹1,800 |
| Teen / adult therapy session | 50 min | ₹1,800 |
| Parent guidance session | 50 min | ₹2,000 |
| EFT session | 60 min | ₹2,200 |
| Developmental screening & report | 2 sittings | ₹6,500 |
| Student mentoring call | 45 min | ₹1,200 |
| School workshop | Half / full day | On request |
A limited number of reduced-fee slots are held each month for students and families who need them — ask, it isn't awkward. Sessions cancelled with less than 24 hours' notice are charged in full. Payment by UPI or bank transfer after each session.
Get in touch
Tell me who the sessions are for and what's been happening. I reply within two working days.