Experience: 2 Years
Experience: 2 Years
Qualification: M.Ed in Counselling Psychology
Qualification: M.Ed in Counselling Psychology
Counselling Psychologist
Counselling Psychologist
Languages I speak - English and Hindi
Languages I speak - English and Hindi
Additional Slots: Available late nights (Post 8 PM IST)
Additional Slots: Available late nights (Post 8 PM IST)
Available: Online for video sessions
Available: Online for video sessions
Please note that Peers do not charge for conversations. All fee goes to SoulUp to support the platform.
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About me
Ria is a Counselling Psychologist with a Master's in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia, Canada. After spending eight years in Canada, she returned to Hyderabad, bringing experience across clinical, community, crisis intervention, and educational settings. Her background includes over 300 hours of therapy practice, 350+ crisis support conversations, and mentoring more than 75 students.
Ria works primarily with young adults navigating relationship concerns, burnout, perfectionism, self-worth, identity, sexuality, life transitions, and the challenges of balancing personal growth with family and cultural expectations. She also supports couples in understanding and changing patterns that contribute to conflict, distance, or disconnection.
Her therapeutic approach is warm, collaborative, and integrative, with a strong foundation in Narrative Therapy. She believes that the problem is not the person, but something that can be understood and addressed together. By exploring the stories, experiences, and patterns that shape the present, Ria helps clients cultivate greater self-compassion, clarity, and meaningful, lasting change in a safe and non-judgmental space.
My Areas of Expertise
Anxiety
Depth of Experience: Regular part of practice
Self Esteem & Imposter Syndrome
Depth of Experience: Regular part of practice
Sexual Identity
Depth of Experience: Occasional experience
Depression
Depth of Experience: Regular part of practice
Anxiety
Depth of Experience: Regular part of practice
Key Therapeutic Approaches I use
More about my practice
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Therapy Style OR How I Show Up
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Clients I Take up
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My Own Lived Experience
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Therapy Bookings: Terms & Conditions
Sessions coordinated directly with the therapist
Once you book a session with a therapist via SoulUp, we put you in touch with them via WhatsApp allowing you and your therapist to coordinate on a mutually convenient time.
Cancellation policy
You can reschedule or cancel sessions or switch therapists upto 24 hours of the slotted time, post which no rescheduling or refund of sessions is possible.
Late to session policy
If you are over 15 mins late to the session, then the session will be held cancelled and no refund will be available. This has been done to ensure a 'full' session for you as well as to ensure enough gap-time for the therapist before their next session.
Cancelling part of a bundled session
For sessions bought as bundle of 4 at discounted price - if after n sessions, either the therapist or the client wants to discontinue sessions, we initiate refund of remaining sessions. In this case, the actual non-discounted price is deducted for each completed session (instead of the pro-rata amount per session) from the price of the bundled offering and the refund is issued.