Individual Therapy
A space just for you, where your thoughts, feelings, and struggles are met with empathy and curiosity. Together, we work at your pace to untangle what feels heavy, build clarity, and move toward self-acceptance.
A soft space for hard feelings.
A safe space for the ones who feel not enough, too much, and everything in between. We're a team driven by passion and lived experiences of what it feels like to carry the weight, seek the light, and finally feel seen.
About us
Therapy that feels like home.
At Soft Spaces Therapy, Shreeja & Meg came together with a vision of building a practice that welcomes every story and every identity. Both bring diverse experiences that shape the way they hold space — with openness, curiosity, and respect. Their shared commitment is to create therapy that feels accessible, inclusive, and deeply human, where no one has to question whether they belong.
Services
The space we hold for you.
Every offering is shaped around the same belief — that real change happens in a setting where you feel safe enough to be yourself.
Couple Therapy
Relationships can hold both love and conflict. Couple therapy creates a safe ground to explore communication, connection, and the patterns that keep you stuck — so you and your partner can learn to listen, heal, and grow together.
Support Groups
Healing doesn't have to be lonely. In our groups, you'll find community with others navigating similar struggles, share your story without judgment, and discover strength in collective understanding.
Workshops
Interactive spaces for learning, reflecting, and growing. Our workshops are designed to help students and young adults explore mental health, relationships, and self-care in a way that feels practical, engaging, and real.
Two names, one belief
Your fee is never only your own.
Soft Spaces Therapy runs on a two-tiered model — and every full fee helps fund Iraada, our redistribution arm, where the same care is offered free and low-cost to people the system has priced out.
Soft Spaces Therapy
The practice
Paid sessions with senior clinicians, and accessible sessions with early-career therapists under close supervision. Trauma-informed, liberation-oriented, neurodivergent-affirming care for individuals, couples and groups — in Delhi, Bangalore and online.
Book a discovery callIraada
The redistribution arm — intention, will, resolve
A community mental health collective offering free therapy, support groups and open resources for those under-served by existing systems — queer and trans clients, neurodivergent folks with histories of misdiagnosis, and survivors of interpersonal, caste-based or institutional violence.
Iraada is not an emergency service. It offers ongoing, relational support for people who may not otherwise access it.
Refer someone or enquireIraada moves resources sideways, from people who have access to people who need it. We are inside the identities we serve: queer, neurodivergent, South Asian, and carrying our own histories.
Bookings
Start your journey with Soft Spaces Therapy.
Ready to take the first step toward healing? Here's how it works:
Reach out
Contact us via email, WhatsApp, or message us on Instagram or LinkedIn. We'll get back to you within 48 hours.
orBook a discovery call through our websiteDiscovery call
Schedule a free 15-minute discovery call to explore whether we're the right fit. We'll match you with the therapist who's the best fit for your needs.
Begin therapy
Sign the therapy contract, and we'll start your personalized journey together.
Resources
A small library, freely shared.
Essays, helplines, worksheets, and books we share with our clients — alongside emergency support resources. Open the one that meets you where you are.
Proof, not promises
Our work, out in the world.
We don’t only hold sessions. We build things, write things, and give them away.
In the press & on the record
- The Caravan
- The Polis Project
- The Progressive
- Channel NewsAsia
- Newsreel Asia
- NAMI (US)
Research on self-management and bipolar disorder in India, presented at NIMHANS, Bengaluru — World Bipolar Day 2024.
Meet the team
The people holding the space.
Soft Spaces Therapy was born from the belief that healing should feel like coming home to yourself — not like fitting into someone else's definition of “wellness.” We are therapists with lived experience, political commitments, and a refusal to separate the personal from the collective. Here, therapy is slow, collaborative, and deeply human.
Sliding scale means lower-fee sessions with early-career therapists, held under close supervision — so cost doesn’t have to be the reason you don’t begin. Exact fees are shared on your free discovery call. We also work alongside trusted psychiatrists, doctors and nutritionists when depth of care calls for it.
Before you ask
Questions, held gently.
The things people wonder about before reaching out — answered plainly.
What happens in the first session?
Before anything, there’s a free 15-minute discovery call — we listen to what you’re carrying and match you with the therapist who fits. Your first session then moves at your pace. There’s no intake form that flattens you into symptoms, and nothing to perform: you can arrive exactly as tired, as unsure, or as difficult as you are.
How much does therapy cost?
We work in tiers — senior clinicians, consultants, and sliding-scale sessions with early-career therapists under close supervision — so cost doesn’t have to be the reason you don’t begin. Exact fees are shared on the discovery call. Paying a full fee here also keeps the lights on at Iraada, where the same care is offered free and low-cost.
Do you offer online sessions? Where are you based?
Yes — we work online across India and across time zones, and in person in Delhi and Bangalore.
Is this a safe space for queer, trans and neurodivergent clients?
It’s built by us, for us. Our team is queer- and kink-affirming and neurodivergence-affirming, and carries lived experience of the identities we serve. You will never have to educate your therapist in order to be understood here.
Is what I share confidential?
Yes. What you share stays between you and your therapist, with the standard legal and safety limits — and we walk you through exactly what those limits are in the therapy contract before you begin, so none of it is fine print.
Do you work with children, or offer emergency care?
We work with ages 14 and up, and we’re not an emergency or inpatient service. If you’re in crisis right now, please reach out to iCall (+91 91529 87821) or the Vandrevala Foundation (1860-2662-345) — both free, confidential and open 24/7. When the immediate storm passes, we’re here for the longer work.
Contact
Let's co-create your soft space.
Whether you're ready to book or just exploring — reach out in whatever way feels easiest.
Explore our Resources page for helplines, worksheets, and our Living Library of books. Follow @spacedoutsessions on Instagram for support group updates.