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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: Introduction
  • Approaches to Couples therapy
  • Trauma, attachment, and couple dynamics (Western models and Indian lens)
  • What makes couples therapy different from individual therapy?
  • Intake & assessment: Hearing two stories at once
  • Setting the frame: Informed consent, ethical considerations, safety, rules, confidentiality, goal setting, aligning expectations, structure of a couple session
  • Creating a safe therapeutic container for both partners
  • Handling escalations, blame cycles, and emotional shut down
  • Polyvagal lens in couple conflict
  • Techniques from Gottman and EFT
  • When one partner is avoidant/shutdown, the other is anxious/preoccupied
  • Indian patterns: “Adjust karo,” stoicism, family reputation
  • Recognizing these patterns and rewiring
  • Navigating issues with in-laws and parents
  • Recognizing inherited relationship blueprints
  • Working with loyalty binds and unconscious contracts
  • Helping partners see and hold each other’s pain
  • Rebuilding trust after deep ruptures (e.g. infidelity, betrayal)
  • Trauma-attuned protocols for healing
  • Building awareness of sexual values, pleasure and shame
  • Working with sexual dysfunctions
  • Sex therapy including Sensate Focus
  • Covert patriarchy, economic abuse, caste and community shame
  • Therapist positioning in unequal dynamics
  • Confronting power dynamics without losing neutrality
  • Queer-specific relational challenges: outness mismatch, chosen family, societal invalidation
  • Therapy stance: being an affirming, culturally grounded ally
  • Working with sex, intimacy and gender identity differences in queer couples
  • Issues related to pregnancy and infertility
  • Issues related to parenting
  • Legal issues: IPV, separation, divorce
  • Therapist’s countertransference
  • Reflection: how our own attachment, trauma, and biases show up in sessions
  • Working with our own triggers
  • Designing your therapy space to feel safe and inclusive
  • Therapy operations: Managing appointments and communication boundaries, Ethical storage of client data and confidentiality,, Choosing the right tools (scheduling, notes, invoicing), Setting up clear policies: no shows, cancellations, refunds, session limits, Navigating legal basics: contracts, invoicing legally, structuring your week for therapy work
  • Progress notes – templates, systems, and best practices
  • Mindful marketing, creating content, visibility without burnout
  • Managing pricing, building a referral network
  • Diversifying income: courses, resources, supervision, collaborations, workshops
  • Building sources of revenue & diversifying your income

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. GST applicable.

💳 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

Ipsita Chatterjee

PhD Scholar | Consultant Psychotherapist | Researcher

Ipsita is the Founder and CEO of Thehraav® and a queer-affirmative psychologist with 8+ years of experience in adult, couple, and family therapy. Trained at Tata Institute of Social Sciences and currently pursuing her PhD at IIT Bombay, she integrates trauma-informed and expressive arts approaches into her practice. Ipsita brings this rich expertise to help us explore working with queer couples as well as legal issues in couple work.

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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