The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

Naina Agarwal

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Counselling Psychologist — Naina Agarwal

Therapy that follows you,
not a script.

For the stuff that keeps repeating. The patterns you understand but can't seem to move. The things you carry without quite knowing how to put them down.

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people don't unfold in identical ways.

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Who this is for

If you've been sitting with something
and don't know where to start —

You don't need the perfect words first.

  • 01

    you overthink, and you know you overthink, and somehow that doesn't help

  • 02

    you're okay on the surface and exhausted underneath

  • 03

    you understand your patterns. you just can't seem to stop repeating them.

  • 04

    you feel things more intensely than most people around you seem to

  • 05

    your relationships follow the same shape, over and over

  • 06

    you're not sure who you are outside of what you do for others

  • 07

    you've been meaning to talk to someone for a while now

you don't need to have it figured out before you reach out.

it's okay if your thoughts arrive messy.

About Naina

The therapist
and the person.

I didn't come to psychology to help people. I came because I couldn't stop trying to understand them — not in a clinical way. In a can't-stop-thinking-about-it way.

I have an MSc in Counselling Psychology. I've also spent years on the other side of therapy, as a client — so I know how vulnerable it can feel to sit across from someone and try to explain what's happening inside you. I know how intimidating starting can be.

Outside of sessions, I'm probably at the gym, experiencing post-coffee jitters, laughing during emotional conversations, or waving at random dogs on the street. I'm more person than profile.

Education

MSc Counselling Psychology

How I work

I work integratively — which means I don't choose one framework
and fit you into it.

I work with what you bring. Session to session.

01

Curious before directive

I tend to ask about the pattern before I name it. I'm more interested in your why than in fixing your what.

02

Integrative, not fixed

My work is primarily informed by CBT, DBT, and somatic approaches — while continuing to learn from other modalities too.

03

Person-centred at the core

You are the expert on your own experience. I'm here to help you hear yourself more clearly. Not become someone else.

What we cover

The quieter stuff.
The louder stuff.
And everything in between.

I work with the experiences people often carry without quite having language for yet.

01

Anxiety & Overthinking

The loop that won't quiet. The body that braces before the day even starts.

02

Emotional Patterns

The coping mechanism has a name. The belief has an origin. We look for both.

03

Self-Worth

The quiet disbelief that you're allowed to take up space. We sit with that.

04

Relationships & Attachment

The same shape, different people. Patterns repeat until something changes.

05

Stress & Burnout

When capacity has quietly thinned to almost nothing. Somewhere to put the weight down.

06

Identity & Self-Understanding

Who you are outside of what you do, who you love, and what you're supposed to be.

07

Emotional Regulation

Flood, freeze, and the moments in between. Learning to read your own signals.

08

Change & Transitions

Endings that weren't clean. Beginnings that feel too big. The in-between.

What to expect

Some sessions are structured. Some are just two people sitting with something difficult
until it starts to make a little more sense.

Both matter.

  1. Sessions

    50–60 minutes, online. You bring what you bring that week.

  2. Pace

    We don't rush. Change is usually quieter than people expect.

  3. Atmosphere

    No fixed script. No pressure to perform healing or arrive with tidy sentences.

  4. What counts

    The first time you notice the urge before you act on it. Saying something honest and not immediately taking it back. Choosing rest without running a quiet justification in your head. That pause matters.

real change is often slow, invisible, and quietly life-altering.

Sessions

Simple, transparent, no surprises.

Format
Online — all sessions held via video callAvailable to clients across India. Based in Hyderabad.
Duration
50–60 minutes
Booking
Via WhatsApp or email
Confidentiality
A private, respectful space where your experiences are held with care. We'll go over how confidentiality works together in our first session.

you don't need the perfect words first.

Quiet questions

The things people wonder
but don't always ask.

Mostly we just meet. I'll ask what brings you here, and we'll go at whatever pace feels manageable. You don't have to explain everything at once — or at all, if something isn't ready yet.

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and you don't know where to start —

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you don't need the perfect words first.