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Fellowship in Indian Couple Therapy

Trauma-Informed Couple Therapy Fellowship for Indian Therapists

Learn how to do deeper, safer, culturally-rooted couple work
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Cohort 2 starts September 2026

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Know Your Trainer

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  • Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from NIMHANS (India)
  • Post-doctorate in Parenting from the University of Queensland (Australia)
  • Trauma-informed Psychotherapist with 10,000+ hours of psychotherapy sessions with 4000+ clients.
  • Facilitated 500+ parenting workshops & webinars, delivered 200+ hours of talks & lectures to psychologists and postgraduate students of psychology.

Fellowship in Indian Couple Therapy

isn’t just about tools.

It’s about learning to hold complexity.

About building a trauma-informed lens that fits the Indian relational context.

About finally having a framework that works — not just in theory, but in every session you walk into.

1 year of live & recorded content

Supervision built-in

Fellowship Certification included

Designed for mid-career therapists who are already seeing couples — or are deeply interested in doing this work — and want to go deeper, with clarity and confidence.

Course Outline

Module 1: (Pre-Recorded) Introduction to Couple Therapy
  • Approaches to Couples therapy
  • Trauma, attachment and couple dynamics (incl Indian lens on attachment)
  • What makes couples therapy different from individual therapy?
  • Types of issues that show up in couple work 
  • Diversity & intersectionality in couple relationships
  • Intake: Hearing two stories at once
  • Readiness and safety assessment
  • Why trauma-informed assessment matters in couples work
  • Assessment from the Gottman and EFCT frameworks
  • Eliciting the negative cycle
  • Building a clinical formulation from an EFCT lens
  • Informed consent & confidentiality
  • Contraindications, Ethical considerations, Goal setting, Ground rules
  • Building safety in couples work
  • Therapist’s role, neutrality, and bias
  • Micro-skills in couples therapy
  • 3 stages of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)
  • Techniques from Gottman Method
  • Polyvagal lens in couples conflict
  • Reframing the conflict in attachment terms
  • Handling escalations, blame cycles, and emotional shut down
  • Working with pursuer-withdrawer pattern
  • Working with high conflict couples
    • Indian patterns: “Adjust karo,” stoicism, family reputation
    • Navigating issues with in-laws and parents
    • Recognizing inherited relationship blueprints
    • Working with loyalty binds and unconscious contracts
    • Working with inter-caste marriages, NRI marriages, and marriage as a family alliance rather than couple bond
  • Covert patriarchy, economic abuse, caste and community shame
  • Therapist positioning in unequal dynamics
  • Confronting power dynamics without losing neutrality
  • Types of infidelity and trust ruptures
  • Injured and injuring partners’ inner experience 
  • Treating affairs: reviving trust and rebuilding safety
  • Indian context dynamics
  • Building awareness of sexual values, pleasure and shame 
  • Indian context: Arranged marriage and sexual intimacy, desire discrepancy
  • Sexual dysfunctions in Indian couples: Diagnosis, history taking & assessment, and intervention
  • Understanding of sexual problems from an EFT perspective
  • Sex therapy including Sensate Focus
  • Queer-specific relational challenges: outness mismatch, chosen family, internalized stigma, societal invalidation
  • Affirmative therapy stance: understanding terminology, minority stress and attachment, cultural humility
  • Working with diverse relationship structures: monogamy, open relationships, polyamory
  • Outness, family systems, and cultural pressures
  • Sex, intimacy, and gender identity
  • Working with couples navigating infertility
  • Working with pregnant couples
  • Working with partners in parenting
  • IPV, coercive control and safety planning
  • Indian legal framework (MHCA, PWDVA, POCSO, divorce and custody basics)
  • Court-involved couples and legal requests
  • Ethical dilemmas in couple work
  • Documentation and risk management
  • Discernment counselling and separation decision-making
  • Therapist’s countertransference
  • Reflection: how our own attachment, trauma, and biases show up in sessions
  • Working with our own triggers

Step 1

The Core Learning

Enroll in the fellowship

Fee: ₹70,000

Includes live sessions, handouts, lifetime access to recordings, and eligibility for certification.

Option 1

Junior Supervisor

Fee: ₹14,000

7 Individual Sessions

Option 2

Dr. Meghna's Supervision

Fee: ₹25,000

7 Individual Sessions

Course Starts: September, 2026

👉 Total fees depend on your supervision choices.

💳 2 & 4 installments payment plans available

📩 Apply now and we’ll guide you through next steps

Built for Real Therapy, Not Just Theory

Trauma-informed & Culturally Grounded

Practical, Skills-Based Learning

Taught by a Practicing Clinician

Built-in Supervision & Business Coaching

Rigorous Curriculum

Faculties

Specialized Guest Faculty

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Richi Parasrampuria

Licensed Clinical Psychologist · MPhil

Richi is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who is trauma-informed and queer-affirmative. She integrates psychotherapy with mind-body approaches to support deep healing and transformation, creating a safe, non-judgmental space where clients can build secure relationships with self and others.

Ipsita Chatterjee

PhD Scholar | Consultant Psychotherapist | Researcher

Ipsita is a consultant psychologist trained at TISS with deep expertise in adult, couple, and family therapy and queer-affirmative practice. She has worked extensively across gender, sexual and reproductive health, domestic violence, and marital concerns. As former Programme Coordinator of Sukoon (TISS), she led multi-centre intervention and research teams through an intersectional, rights-based framework.

Shradha Chandrasekar

Clinical Psychologist (NIMHANS) · EMDR & Schema Therapy

Shradha is an RCI-licensed Clinical Psychologist trained at NIMHANS, specialising in complex trauma, burnout, and relational pain. Trained in EMDR, schema therapy, and systems-informed care, her practice is queer-affirmative, trauma-informed, and deeply person-centred — particularly for those who've felt unseen in more traditional therapy spaces.

Is this the right next step for you?

Early to mid career therapist who wants to develop couples therapy as a core niche

You have prior experience seeing therapy clients

You have already done our L1 course OR have a foundational understanding of couple dynamics

You're currently seeing couples but feeling stuck, scattered, or unsure during high-conflict, emotionally reactive, or trauma-heavy sessions

You want to deepen your practical skills, confidence and structure

Ready to Deepen Your Couple Work?

Cohort begins: September 2026

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FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Who can apply for this course?
This course is open to therapists with a minimum of a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, Clinical Psychology, or Applied Psychology.
Yes, if you’re currently pursuing your Master’s and feel confident about your therapeutic skills, you’re welcome to apply. This course is intensive, so we recommend it for students who are already seeing clients or have prior hands-on experience.
Yes — if you’re a trained therapist who’s interested in doing couple work and ready to learn deeply, this course will equip you with the structure, tools, and confidence to begin.

Absolutely. This isn’t a surface-level workshop. It’s a trauma-informed, skills-based fellowship with supervision, case-level application, and deep cultural insight — designed to take your couple work to the next level.

You’ll need about 2 hours/week for live sessions and another 1–2 hours for pre-recorded content or reflection. The course is designed to be manageable alongside a therapy practice.

All live sessions are recorded and shared with lifetime access, so you can catch up anytime.

Application Process

What does the application involve?

Just fill out the online form. We will follow up with an email or short call to ensure the course is a good fit for where you are in your practice journey.

We’re not gatekeeping — but we are looking for therapists who are open, reflective, and ready to go deep. Prior couple therapy experience is not required, but emotional readiness is essential.

Certification & Supervision

Is supervision mandatory for fellowship completion?

Yes. Certification is provided only after completing all 12 weeks of individual supervision.

The requirement for fellowship completion is:

  • 85% attendence in live sessions.
  • 12 individual supervision sessions.

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