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Indian Relational Work

Training in Couple Therapy, Parenting, and Practice Building grounded in culturally-rooted and clinically active work.

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5

10,000+

Hours of

Therapy Sessions

4000+

Clients

15+

Years
Experience

Training Pathways

Fellowship in Couple Therapy

Working with couples often requires therapists to hold multiple realities at once: attachment, conflict, trauma, communication, family systems, and the larger social context people live within. This pathway is designed to help therapists feel more confident and skilled in working with couples, while staying grounded in the realities of relationships in the Indian context.

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Positive Parenting Training

Parenting rarely exists in isolation. It is shaped by family dynamics, culture, relationships, and the everyday challenges families navigate. This pathway focuses on helping therapists support parents and families in ways that feel practical, compassionate, and relevant to the realities they are working with.

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Therapist to CEO

Most therapists are trained in clinical skills, but very few are taught how to build a sustainable practice. This pathway helps therapists think about the business side of their work with more clarity and confidence, while staying aligned with their values and the kind of practice they want to create.

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WHY RFA

"Therapy training must be rooted in the actual realities of the people we sit across from in the room."

Beyond Western Frameworks

Traditional models treat therapeutic frameworks universally. In India, relationships and healing are deeply shaped by family systems, culture, caste, gender, and community.

Bridging the Training Gap

We move away from abstract, isolated theory to focus heavily on practical a pplication, giving you the actual scripts, tools, and reflective frameworks used in active sessions.

A Grounded Approach

Whether you are supporting complex couple dynamics or scaling your practice, our goal is to help you feel deeply thoughtful, grounded, and confident.

BEHIND THE ACADEMY

Meet the Founders

We are practitioner-educators who believe that high-quality, culturallyresponsive clinical training should be built by clinicians actively working on the ground.

CO-FOUNDER & CLINICAL SUPERVISOR

Dr. Meghna

  • Bringing extensive senior clinical
  • experience, diagnostic depth, and
  • supervisory expertise. Dr. Meghna oversees
  • the rigorous clinical standards of our
  • curricula, anchoring abstract relational
  • dilemmas into safe, ethical, and advanced therapeutic practice.

CO-FOUNDER, RFA & PARTNERS TO PARENTS

Srilekha M Karnic

  • A counseling psychologist and systemic
  • practitioner specializing in modern Indian
  • relationships. Srilekha transitions deep
  • clinical observations from thousands of
  • hours of couple sessions into accessible,
  • structured training systems for growing therapists.

What Our Training Looks Like

Live Case Discussions

Explore the messy, uncurated complexity of actual, ongoing client work.

Practical Frameworks

Gain clear, usable scripts and interventions you can immediately take back into your next session.

Deep Clinical Supervision

Participate in reflective discussions and direct mentorship to significantly deepen your clinical thinking.

Culturally-Rooted Context

Engage in learning that is entirely connected to the real dynamics of Indian families, social systems, and relationships.

Real-World Data. Field-Tested Frameworks.

Through our active clinical wing, Partners to Parents (P2P), our frameworks are continuously refined across 10,000+ session hours with over 4,000 families.

We don't teach theory in isolation. The exact clinical challenges, scripts, and breakthroughs that emerge from our daily practice are what shape our curriculum. This ensures your learning stays entirely practical, relevant, and trustworthy.

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The Growing Therapist

Changing how you think about being a therapist in India.

Being a therapist here is about so much more than just the sessions. It’s about how you carry the role, navigate complex boundaries, and manage the internal roadblocks that come with practicing in an Indian context. This newsletter focuses entirely on the person behind the practice—helping you shift your mindset, question old assumptions, and grow into the next phase of your professional life.

Simple, honest perspectives for mid-career Indian therapists.