Abu Umair
Occupation:
PsychotherapistExperience:
2 YearsCore skills:
Working with bothadolescents
Phones:
9319193976email:
psyche.umair@gmail.comlocation:
New Delhi, IndiaI currently work at Hausla Health Initiative, a shelter-based recovery programme in Delhi, where I work closely with homeless, internally migrant, and marginalised men navigating addiction, trauma, shame, and the fractures of prolonged displacement. This work has shaped my understanding of what therapy can hold — not just the interior life of a person, but their history, their body, and the systems that have marked them.
My academic and clinical interests sit at the intersection of masculinity, emotional life, and social precarity. I have contributed to international academic work in this area — including a chapter in a forthcoming Routledge volume on men and masculinities at the margins.
I work with individuals across a wide range of concerns — anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, identity, grief, shame, and the quiet sense that something is missing but hard to name. Sessions are available in person in New Delhi and online across India, in Hindi and English.
I do not believe therapy is about fixing. It is about being with — carefully, honestly, over time. What shifts in good therapy is not a symptom removed but a different relationship to oneself and others.
I also hold a strong conviction that the body is never separate from what we carry. Trauma, shame, grief — these live in posture, breath, and silence as much as in words. My approach attends to the whole person.
And I take seriously the worlds people come from. Class, gender, migration, violence, belonging — these are not background details to be set aside. They shape what suffering looks like and what healing requires.