Understand
The first sessions are careful listening — history, context, and where the strain actually began. For a child, this includes parents; for a couple, both voices.
Aarohan Mental Health Clinic · Sector 31, Noida
Every ascent begins with one honest conversation.
Dr. Aprajita Khanna (PhD) is an RCI-registered clinical psychologist and family counselor helping children, adolescents, adults and families climb out of hard seasons — through structured, evidence-based care, in Noida and online.
- RCI-registeredclinical psychologist
- CBT · DBT · ACTevidence-based methods
- ₹2,500consultation · as listed ↗
Founder & DirectorAarohan, Sector 31
Also serving asconsultant, Richmond Fellowship Society (India)
RCIRegistered clinical psychologist
PhDClinical psychology
All agesChild · teen · adult · family
3 modesIn-clinic · video · phone
Who I walk with
A practice for every age of the family
Different seasons of life ask for different kinds of care. Choose where you're starting from — the services page opens on your footing.
Children · 5–12
Big feelings, school worries, attention and behaviour — understood, not managed away.
Begin for a child →
Adolescents · 13–19
Exam pressure, identity, screens, silence at the dinner table — a room where a teen talks.
Begin for a teen →
Adults
Anxiety, low mood, burnout and the patterns that keep returning — worked through, properly.
Begin for yourself →
Parents & families
Communication that has frayed, conflict that loops — repaired together, with structure.
Begin together →
The climb, in three steps
A quieter kind of progress
Map
Together we name the pattern out loud — the trigger, the thought, the reaction. Where helpful, validated psychometric assessments add real clarity, not guesswork.
Practice
CBT, DBT or ACT skills, fitted to age and life, rehearsed between sessions. Progress is measured in ordinary days that get easier — not in jargon.
The clinic
Aarohan, Sector 31 — a calm address for hard days
A dedicated mental-health clinic in the heart of Noida, designed to feel nothing like a hospital queue — a waiting space you wouldn't mind sitting in, and rooms where a child can be a child. Consultations run in person, over video, or by phone.
- AddressAarohan Mental Health Clinic, Sector 31, Noida
- HoursMon–Sat confirm timings
- Consultation₹2,500 as listed on Practo ↗
In their words
Families who found their footing
“The first session felt like being handed a map after months of wandering in the dark.”
“We came in barely speaking to our son. We left with words that worked.”
Aarohan's public ratings live on independent platforms — Aarohan on Practo ↗ · Justdial listing ↗. Nothing on this page invents a client's words.
The hardest step is the phone call.
You've already taken the others.
Book a session with Dr. Khanna at Aarohan — in Sector 31, over video, or by phone.
About
The clinician behind Aarohan
Clinical psychologist, family counselor, trainer — and a firm believer that good therapy is structured, warm, and measurable.
Dr. Aprajita Khanna is an RCI-registered clinical psychologist, counseling psychologist and family counselor with a doctorate in psychology. She is the founder and director of Aarohan Mental Health Clinic in Sector 31, Noida, where she leads a practice built around one idea: mental-health care for children, adolescents, adults and families should be both evidence-based and deeply human.
Her clinical work draws on structured, research-backed methods — cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) and acceptance & commitment therapy (ACT) — alongside formal psychometric assessment for children and adults. She is known in particular for her work in child and adolescent mental health, psychotherapy and family counselling.
Beyond the clinic, Dr. Khanna serves as a consultant clinical psychologist with The Richmond Fellowship Society (India) in Delhi, and trains fellow professionals — her workshops for psychologists and educators come with structured toolkits and scoring manuals. Aarohan, fittingly, is a Hindi word: the ascent.
“Placeholder — replace with Dr. Khanna's own one-line philosophy, in her words.”
Approach
Methods with evidence behind the name
Dr. Khanna's practice is built on therapies with a research base — chosen and fitted to the person in the room, never the other way round.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
The most widely researched talk therapy. You learn to catch the thought patterns that fuel distress, test them against reality, and rehearse healthier responses — with homework, charts and visible progress. Especially effective for anxiety, low mood and exam stress.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Skills for storms: emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and steadier relationships. DBT teaches that two things can be true at once — you accept yourself and you work to change. Structured modules make the skills learnable and concrete.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Rather than fighting difficult feelings, ACT builds the capacity to hold them while moving toward what you actually value. Clients leave with a compass, not just comfort — a direction for the days when motivation runs dry.
Psychometric Assessment
Standardised, validated testing — for IQ and learning profiles, ADHD, personality and clinical symptom scales. Dr. Khanna is a certified psychometrician; reports are written to be understood by parents and schools, not just clinicians.
What the first session actually looks like
- A soft landing.You arrive to a calm waiting space, not a queue. For children, the first minutes are often spent just drawing.
- A long listen.Dr. Khanna gathers history — school, family, sleep, appetite, what's been tried. Questions, never interrogation.
- A shared plan.You leave knowing the working hypothesis, the method proposed, and what progress will look like in your ordinary week.
Everything shared in session is confidential within the limits Indian law requires — discussed plainly at the start, including how teen privacy works with parents.
Services
Support for every age, at Aarohan
Pick the footing you're starting from — the page reshapes around it.
Early struggles rarely announce themselves in words — they show up as tummy aches, meltdowns, refusal and suddenly-faded smiles.
Emotion & behaviour support
Tantrums, aggression, school refusal and fears — worked through at a child's pace, with play and drawing as language.
Assessment for clarity
Psychometric testing for learning, attention and development — reports parents and schools can act on.
Parent partnership
Structured sessions where parents learn what the behaviour is saying, and what to do before the next storm.
School & friendship struggles
Bullying, adjustment, and the quiet social anxieties that follow a child home from school.
Adolescence rewards adults who listen without flinching. Sessions are private, paced, and never a report card home.
Exam & academic pressure
Board years, competitive exams and the anxiety that arrives with them — CBT-based, practical, finite.
Identity & confidence
Self-worth, body image, and the question of who they're becoming — held without judgment.
Screens, gaming & social pressure
Boundaries that survive contact with real teenage life, built together rather than imposed.
Parent–teen repair
Joint sessions for homes where every conversation ends in a slammed door.
High-functioning on the outside, quietly worn on the inside. Adult therapy here is structured, not open-ended drifting.
Anxiety & panic
The racing mind, the avoided calls, the 3 a.m. thinking — mapped and systematically retired.
Low mood & burnout
When the tank stays empty: behavioural activation and values work to rebuild traction.
Relationship patterns
The same argument, the same ache, the next partner — patterns named and re-written.
Emotion regulation (DBT)
Concrete skills for anger, impulsivity and emotional storms — module by module.
A family is a system — when one strand pulls, everyone feels it. Sessions work on the weave, not just one thread.
Family counselling
Structured sessions where every voice is heard — including the smallest ones.
Couple & marital therapy
Communication that has frayed, conflict that loops — rebuilt with evidence-based tools.
Parenting through diagnoses
ADHD, autism, learning differences — support that helps the whole household adapt.
Blended & joint families
Space for the complex, loving, exhausting arithmetic of modern Indian households.
Stories
What families say — and where to verify it
This practice runs on a simple rule: no invented reviews. Ratings live on independent platforms you can check yourself.
PractoAarohan clinic listing — appointments & clinic feedbackview on Practo ↗
Justdialpublic rating aggregate for the practiceview on Justdial ↗
DocIndiaindependent profile & patient feedbackview on DocIndia ↗
“The first session felt like being handed a map after months of wandering in the dark.”
“We came in barely speaking to our son. We left with words that worked.”
“She explained the assessment to us like we mattered in it. Because we did.”
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Questions
Asked at the front desk, answered here
What does a session cost?
Consultations are listed at ₹2,500 on Practo ↗. Fees are confirmed at the time of booking and may differ for assessments or multi-session family work.
How long is a session, and how many will we need?
Sessions typically run 45–60 minutes confirm duration. A shared plan after the first session sets a realistic count — CBT for a specific anxiety often takes 8–16 sessions, while assessment has its own schedule.
Will I be told what my child says in session?
Parents receive the themes and the plan, while the child's private words stay private — a balance explained to both the child and the parents up front. Safety concerns are never kept from a parent.
Is an online session as effective as coming in?
For most adult and teen therapy, yes — the evidence for teletherapy is solid. For young children and formal assessments, in-person sessions at Sector 31 are strongly preferred.
What does “RCI-registered” mean for me?
The Rehabilitation Council of India maintains the national register of qualified clinical psychologists. Registration means verified training, a code of ethics, and accountability — a floor every family deserves.
How do we begin?
Send a message through the visit page or WhatsApp directly — you'll hear back with available slots, then come in for the first conversation. That's the whole procedure.
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