ROOM 1 · THE ENTRANCE

Some feelings need
a bigger canvas.

I'm Dr. Tanya Dixit — a counselling psychologist with a PhD, nine years of practice, and a firm belief that hard feelings deserve beautiful rooms. Talking is one way in. Paint, clay and colour are others. You bring the feeling; I'll hold the space.

How are you arriving today?

— tap one, if any of them is true —

Dr. Tanya Dixit Counselling Psychologist · PhD Psychology photograph from her public team profile ↗

THE DOCENT

A safe, non-judgemental room —
her stated way of working.

"My mission is to bring smiles to sad faces and spread positivity in the world."
— Dr. Tanya Dixit, on her public profiles ↗

Nine years of practice. Marriages finding their words again. Children who draw what they can't say. OCD and anxiety met with structure and patience. A PhD behind the warmth, and a simple rule in front of it: nobody is judged in this room.

9 years of practice ↗ PhD Psychology ↗ 4 ways in: talk · art · play · assessment

THE COLLECTION

Five rooms, one question:
which one is yours?

ROOM 2

Anxiety

The mind that never clocks out.

ROOM 3

OCD

When rituals guard the door.

ROOM 4

Marriage

Two people, one missing sentence.

ROOM 5

Children & teens

Big feelings in small people.

ROOM 6

Art therapy

For what words can't reach yet.

Admission is free. Change is the exhibit.

Book below — or keep walking through the rooms first. The gallery keeps no records of your visit.

Begin a conversation See the gallery first

ROOM 1A · THE LISTENER

The person holding the space.

A counselling psychologist and psychotherapist practising in Lucknow — described on her own professional profile as empathetic, and dedicated to a safe, non-judgemental environment for her clients. ↗

Dr. Tanya Dixit — counselling psychologist, Lucknow — Dr. Tanya Dixit · Lucknow · 9 years of practice

Training & practice

Dr. Dixit holds a PhD in Psychology and has spent nine years in counselling practice ↗ — currently part of the clinical team at Manochikitsa, Lucknow's long-standing mental health service ↗. Her rooms cover marital and relationship counselling, child and adolescent counselling, emotional and relationship issues, career-related stress, OCD, and cases that benefit from formal assessment.

What sets her practice apart is the same thing that sets art therapy apart: the belief that not everything true can be said in sentences. A drawing, a colour choice, a lump of clay — these are honest where conversation needs practice. Her assessments and therapy both make room for that honesty.

The way she works

Empathy first, structure close behind. Sessions are unhurried, private, and entirely without the fear of being labelled. Children get a room where play is fluent; couples get a room where both sentences count; anxious minds get protocols with proof. Everyone gets to be heard before they are helped.

"A safe, non-judgemental environment — that's not the garnish. That's the dish."

ROOMS 2–6 · THE COLLECTION

Walk into the room that fits.

Each room answers a different kind of ache. Open one — the light is already on.

Gustav Klimt, The Kiss — closeness in gold

Gustav Klimt, The Kiss · public domain · Commons ↗

ROOM 2 · ANXIETY

The mind that never clocks out.

Racing heart at 2 a.m. Rehearsed conversations. A worry that finishes, then starts again. Anxiety is exhausting precisely because it works so hard to protect you.

In this room, anxiety gets taken seriously and taken apart — where it lives in the body, what triggers it, what maintains it. Structured, evidence-based counselling with a person who has sat with hundreds of anxious minds. Skills that lower the volume, practised until they're yours.

For: adults & teens living inside the alarm
Works with: exam stress, health worry, social anxiety, generalised anxiety
Deep-link: her listed specialties ↗

Vincent van Gogh, Almond Blossom — feeling, budding early in the year

Vincent Van Gogh, Amandelbloesem · public domain · Commons ↗

ROOM 3 · OCD

When rituals guard the door.

Check it again. Wash it again. Say it again, or something bad might happen. OCD is not a quirk or an adjective — it's a serious, treatable condition that bullies its own host.

OCD counselling here follows the structured approaches that actually shift it — identifying the obsession–compulsion loop, resisting the quick reassurance that feeds it, and steadily reclaiming the ground it has taken. Between sessions, art-based and behavioural tasks keep the work alive outside the room.

For: anyone captive to rituals, intrusive thoughts or check-wash-repeat cycles
Also: OC-spectrum concerns, intrusive-thought distress
Deep-link: her clinical profile ↗

Edgar Degas, The Dance Class — discipline inside delight

Edgar Degas, Edgar Degas The Dance Class · public domain · Commons ↗

ROOM 4 · MARRIAGE & PARTNERSHIP

Two people, one missing sentence.

Most marriages don't break from one storm. They erode from a thousand unsaid sentences. And then, one day, both people are speaking fluent loneliness.

Marital counselling here is the room where the missing sentences get said safely — not to referee who's right, but to rebuild what the silence dismantled: listening as a skill, conflict that ends instead of echoing, and the honest conversation about what each person actually needs. Some couples leave reconnected. Some leave kindly. Both are victories done properly.

For: married & long-term couples — frayed, stuck, or quietly drifting
Also: pre-marital counselling, separation done with dignity
Deep-link: marital counselling, listed specialty ↗

Gustav Klimt, Tree of Life — every feeling a branch

Gustav Klimt, Klimt · public domain · Commons ↗

ROOM 5 · CHILDREN & TEENS

Big feelings in small people.

A child's vocabulary for pain is behaviour. The stomach-ache before school. The rage after the phone call. The drawing that's always, somehow, stormy.

Child and adolescent counselling here works in their language first — play, drawing, story — with the clinical scaffolding underneath: emotional issues, school stress, friendship wounds, family changes, career pressure for board-year students. Parents aren't spectators; they get the translated version and their own tools, because a child's weather improves fastest when the home climate does.

For: ages ~6–18 — and their parents
Works with: emotional & relationship issues, exam stress, adjustment
Deep-link: child & adolescent counselling, listed ↗

ROOM 6 · ART THERAPY

For what words can't reach yet.

Art therapy is not art class. Nobody grades the drawing. The point is not what you make — it's what making it lets out. People who have talked in circles for years sometimes find the circle broken by one afternoon of colour.

Offered alongside talk therapy and assessments, art therapy is a road around the guarded gate of language — useful for trauma, grief, children, and adults who "don't know where to start". No skill required. None. The art is in the telling, not the technique.

For: anyone — especially the stuck, the speechless, the young
Requires: zero artistic talent (genuinely)
Deep-link: art therapy & assessments, listed ↗

ROOM 7 · THE GALLERY

What art therapy looks like.

Frames from the practice of giving feelings a form. Hover close — like in any gallery, the plaques are where the meaning lives.

A NOTE ON THE IMAGES

These frames stand in for the practice's spirit — the sessions themselves are private, always. In your first conversation you'll see exactly how art-based work would be used with you, or your child, and why. illustrative imagery

ROOM 8 · THE APPROACH

Unhurried, structured, and never judging.

Warmth without method is just friendliness; method without warmth is just paperwork. Her practice runs on both.

First session

You talk, or you don't — either is fine. There's no intake-interrogation. The first meeting is about safety: what brings you, what you've tried, what you're afraid this might mean, and what "better" would actually look like for you. You leave with a sense of the path, even if you decide not to walk it.

The middle

Sessions build on each other: feelings mapped, patterns named, skills practised in the room and tested in the week. Where assessments are needed, they're done formally. Where art helps, it's offered. Where structure works, it's explained so plainly you could explain it to someone else.

Confidentiality

What's said in the room stays in the room — the ethics of a registered clinical practice, not a promise. The exceptions are safety-related and are explained to every client in the first session, in plain words.

Empathetic her own profile's first word ↗

Non-judgemental the environment she builds ↗

Assessment-capable formal psychological & diagnostic assessment ↗

Team-based Manochikitsa, Lucknow ↗

ROOM 9 · QUESTIONS

Asked at the entrance.

Do I need to be "good at art" for art therapy?

No — truly, no. Art therapy isn't graded and isn't about skill. A stick figure drawn honestly beats a masterpiece drawn guardedly. If you can hold a crayon, you're qualified. If you can't, clay works too.

What does a session cost?

Fee is ₹ [[—]] — confirmed when you book, because the honest answer depends on session type and format (individual, couple, child, assessment). You'll always be told clearly before you commit. confirm

Couples counselling — will you take sides?

Never. The relationship is the client, not either person in it. Both voices carry equal weight in the room — even when one of them arrives angrier, or quieter, than the other.

My teenager refuses therapy. Now what?

Common, and workable. Teens often say yes to a first meeting framed as "one conversation, zero commitment" — especially when they hear that the room doesn't report to parents. Art-based approaches also lower the barrier: it's easier to sit with a brush than a questionnaire.

Do you see clients online?

Both formats are offered — in person in Lucknow, and online where appropriate. Children's art-based work and formal assessments are usually better in person; talk therapy travels well.

What if it's urgent?

If you or someone near you is at immediate risk, don't wait for an appointment: Tele-MANAS (Govt of India) answers 24×7 at 14416 or 1-800-891-4416, and Kiran helpline at 1800-599-0019. When you book, say it's urgent — urgent requests are treated as urgent.

ROOM 10 · THE WAY IN

Begin one honest conversation.

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Some feelings needa bigger canvas.

A safe, non-judgemental room —her stated way of working.

Five rooms, one question:which one is yours?

Anxiety

OCD

Marriage

Children & teens

Art therapy

Admission is free. Change is the exhibit.

The person holding the space.

Training & practice

The way she works

Walk into the room that fits.

The mind that never clocks out.

When rituals guard the door.

Two people, one missing sentence.

Big feelings in small people.

For what words can't reach yet.

What art therapy looks like.

Unhurried, structured, and never judging.

First session

The middle

Confidentiality

Asked at the entrance.

Begin one honest conversation.

Request a session

Some feelings need
a bigger canvas.

A safe, non-judgemental room —
her stated way of working.

Five rooms, one question:
which one is yours?