Pranav Choudhary
Occupation:
PsychotherapistCore skills:
Working with bothchildren and adults
BA Psychology, Ambedkar University Delhi
My current work focuses significantly on marginalised children in Delhi — young people whose emotional and developmental worlds have been shaped by poverty, instability, violence, and displacement. Working with children requires a particular kind of attentiveness: to what is not said, to play, to the body, to the ways that early experience writes itself into behaviour long before language can catch up.
Alongside this, I work with adults navigating a wide range of concerns — anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, identity questions, and the quieter forms of suffering that don’t always have names. I bring the same quality of attention to both — unhurried, curious, and grounded in the belief that every person’s story deserves to be taken seriously.
My thinking is informed by a broad range of disciplines: psychoanalysis, sociology, philosophy, history, and politics. I find that the richest clinical understanding comes from holding all of these together — seeing a person not just as a set of symptoms but as someone shaped by forces much larger than themselves.
What draws me to this approach is its insistence on the present moment. What is happening right now, in this room, between us — that is where the real material lives. The past matters, deeply. But it matters most when it shows up in the present, in how we relate, how we protect ourselves, how we reach out and pull back.
With children, this often means working through play — through story, image, movement, and the symbolic worlds children naturally inhabit. Play is not a distraction from serious work. It is how children think, process, and heal.
With adults, I move at the pace the person needs. There is no fixed protocol, no predetermined destination. The work unfolds from what the person brings — and from what emerges between us in the process of genuine encounter.