Shirine Marian Tigga

Counsellor and psychotherapist

5 Year of Experience

I am Shirine, a psychodynamic psychotherapist dedicated to supporting individuals through the complexity of their emotional and psychological lives. I work with adolescents, young adults, working professionals, and survivors of trauma and abuse. I also work with people navigating anxiety, depression, dissociation, relationship struggles, identity questions, or simply the desire to understand themselves more deeply. My aim is to offer a space where clients feel seen, heard, and are able to explore parts of their inner world that are often difficult to access.

Session Details

Charges :

₹2700

Time Duration :

60 mins

Approach

Psychoanalytic Approach, Trauma-Informed Approach, Family Systems Approach.

Languages

English & Hindi

1:1 Session

Time Duration :

60 mins

Charges :

₹2700

Best for:

Adolescents, Adults, Couples, Neurodivergent Adults, Seniors, non-binary LGBTQA+

Includes:

Therapeutic Approach – My therapeutic approach is rooted in psychoanalytic principles, where we pay close attention to unconscious processes, relational patterns, and the unspoken conflicts that shape thoughts, feelings, and behaviour. At the same time, I integrate trauma-informed care, crisis counselling, cross-cultural sensitivity, and solution-focused methods when needed. This allows me to work both in long-term depth-oriented psychotherapy and short-term interventions, depending on what best supports the client. I believe therapy beyond addressing symptoms, also provides a self-reflective space to cultivate resilience, clarity, and other empowered ways of living.
Credentials & What Drives Me – My training has been central to shaping my identity as a clinician. I completed fellowships in psychoanalysis at the Contemporary Freudian Society in Washington DC and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, experiences that strengthened my commitment to depth work. With an MA and M.Phil. in Psychology, I bring academic grounding alongside clinical experience with diverse populations. I have worked across government hospitals, low-fee clinics, NGOs, and community mental health settings, meeting individuals at various stages of life—from children and adolescents to middle-aged and older adults—each facing challenges that arise from both internal struggles and external circumstances. As a queer-affirmative and caste-informed practitioner, I work with an awareness of the social, cultural, and structural forces that impact mental health. My aim is to create a reflective, non-judgemental therapeutic space where clients can talk freely, feel safe, and begin to make sense of difficult experiences such as obsessive thinking, eating difficulties, attention issues, suicidal thoughts, trauma and more. Alongside my clinical work, I am also a researcher and writer who has presented at national and international forums on mental health, identity, and psychosocial processes.
Take the First Step – If you are looking for a thoughtful, warm, and insight-oriented space to explore your inner life, I invite you to reach out and book a session.

What clients can expect

I provide self-reflective space with warmth and empathy that helps clients recognise their underlying anxieties, conflicts, recurring behavioural patterns that brings clarity and resolution. The sessions strengthens the clients emotional regulation, and creates more adaptive ways of being with oneself and surroundings.
Academic & Clinical Foundation : I am a trained psychodynamic psychotherapist with an M.A. and M.Phil. in Psychology from Ambedkar University Delhi. I have also completed a Certificate Course in Trauma-Informed Psychosocial Care from Hansraj College. Additionally, I have pursued advanced clinical training through fellowship programs at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and the Contemporary Freudian Society, New York.
Assessment & Therapeutic Experience : I have 5+ years of work experience with clients addressing a wide range of psychological issues, including anxiety, depression, identity concerns, relationship issues, eating disorders, body image concerns, obsessive thinking, trauma, work pressures, crisis situations and others.
Multidisciplinary & Rehabilitation Work : My psychodynamic approach is integrative of relational psychotherapy, trauma-focused psychosocial care along with a queer-affirmative and caste-informed sensibility.
Current Counselling: I am equipped to work with adults of all age groups and couples.

How My Experience Guides You

My psychodynamic approach identifies relational dynamics, recognising unresolved conflicts, interpreting unconscious processes that enables understanding clients emotional patterns, attachment styles, and defensive structures. Working on these lead to emotional growth and meaningful psychological changes.

A Personal Word for You

Thank you for reaching out. If you’re going through a difficult time, we can work on it together. A safe, understanding space can help you explore your experiences, gain clarity, respite and find solutions.

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