Anushka Joshi & Priyesh Kumar (Meet the Founders)

Priyesh Kumar — Founder

Priyesh Kumar founded Nurture Counseling after years of working across industries in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Traveling between cultures gave him something unexpected: a clear-eyed view of how differently societies relate to emotional wellbeing. In many places he lived and worked, seeking support was simply part of life. In India, he found a different reality: one where mental health was still whispered about, misunderstood, or avoided altogether.
That gap stayed with him. He returned with a conviction that mental wellness isn't a sign of weakness or illness. It is the foundation everything else is built on. Nurture Counseling is his response to that conviction: a space where people can take their inner lives as seriously as their outer ones.

Anushka Joshi — Co-Founder & Counseling Psychologist

Anushka Joshi is a counseling psychologist with an MSc in Counseling Psychology, but her path to this work didn't begin in a classroom. It began with her own lived experience.
Like many who dedicate their lives to mental health, Anushka knows firsthand what it feels like to need someone in your corner. To want to be heard without being judged. To search for a space safe enough to be honest in. Those experiences didn't just shape her. They gave her a purpose.
She co-founded Nurture Counseling with a quiet but fierce belief: that every single person deserves to have someone who truly listens. Not to fix them. Not to rush them toward solutions. But to sit with them, understand them, and help them feel that they are not alone in what they are carrying.
As a practitioner, Anushka brings both clinical grounding and genuine human warmth to every session. She understands that walking into a counselor's room for the first time takes courage, and she meets that courage with patience, compassion, and a complete absence of judgment.
Her vision for Nurture Counseling is simple but powerful: a world where talking about your mental health is no more stigmatised than talking about your physical health. Where vulnerability is met with care, not silence.
If you are visiting this page wondering whether this is the right place for you, Anushka built this space precisely for that moment of wondering.

Our Vision

We envision an India where mental health is nobody's secret and nobody's privilege.
We want mental wellness to reach every home. Not just the ones in cities, not just the ones that can afford it. Every home. We believe that every person deserves to understand what mental health means, how it shapes their life, and what they can do to nurture it. Awareness is where healing begins, and we are committed to building that awareness one conversation, one family, one community at a time.

We know that cost has kept too many people away for too long. "It's too expensive" should never be the reason someone doesn't get support. That is why we are deeply committed to keeping our services as affordable as possible, because emotional wellbeing is not a luxury. It is a basic human need.

And we know that the deepest conversations happen in the language closest to your heart. That is why we offer counseling in regional languages, so that nothing gets lost in translation and every person can express themselves fully in the words that feel most like home.
We are building toward that world. Not someday. Now.

Anushka Joshi & Priyesh Kumar (Meet the Founders)

Priyesh Kumar — Founder

Anushka Joshi — Co-Founder & Counseling Psychologist

Our Vision

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