🇺🇸 United States · online video sessions
Indian therapist for Chicago
Online therapy for Indians and South Asians in Chicago. Culturally-informed sessions with a psychologist who understands the specific weight of family, marriage, and identity across cultures.
Morning slots line up with Komel's evening hours. Sessions run in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu.
Komel Kaur
Psychologist + Executive Coach
M.A. Psychology
CBT and DBT trained psychologist
5 languages
English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Kashmiri
60-minute sessions
Online video, times shown on your own clock
No payment to request
Ask for a time first, pay once it is confirmed
Reviewed by Komel Kaur, psychologist and executive coach, M.A. Psychology
Last reviewed 20 August 2026
What people here rarely say out loud
These come up late in a first session, usually after the practical problem has been described.
Racism at work and at school
Devon Avenue aside, most clients spend their days as the only Indian in the room, managing comments they never report. The cost accumulates.
Boundaries with a large extended family
Weddings, visits and money requests arrive with the assumption of yes. We work on the version of no your family can survive.
Winter isolation
Months indoors with a thin circle turn ordinary stress into low mood. Building support before the season matters.
More on these: racism and bullying, boundaries with family, a relationship you cannot tell family about, and building a support system abroad.
What clients in Chicago bring to sessions
Chicago's Indian community spans Devon Avenue's first-generation families and suburban second-generation professionals. Both groups describe the same gap: therapists who understand the clinical side but not the family side.
- ·Second-generation identity and guilt
- ·Caring for ageing parents across continents
- ·Marriage and intercultural relationships
- ·Winter low mood and isolation
- ·Career pressure and comparison
Time zone
CT (UTC-5/-6)
Morning slots line up with Komel's evening hours.
Sessions in
English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
Format
Online video
Confidential, secure
Meeting from anywhere in Chicago
Online sessions from the city, Naperville, Schaumburg, or anywhere in Illinois.
Not sure where to start?
Take a free, clinician-validated self-test. Your results come with plain-language interpretation - and you decide what to do next.
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Ready when you are
Pick a session and a time that suits you in Chicago, then send the request. Nothing is paid until Komel confirms the slot.
Relationships and couples
Free, instant, no sign-up. Useful whether or not you ever book a session.
- 5 love languages test (free, all five ranked) →
- Attachment style quiz (free, both dimensions scored) →
- The five love languages explained →
- Taking the love language test as a couple →
- Attachment styles in relationships →
- Couples and marriage tests →
One page per love language
One page per attachment style
How it works
Three steps, about five minutes.
No waiting list, no phone tag, no chasing a reply. You can have a time requested before you close this page, and nothing is paid until it is confirmed.
01
Pick a session and a time
Choose the session you want and a slot that suits you. Times are shown on your own clock, and evening slots are open.
02
Request it, no payment yet
Leave a few details and send the request. The slot is held for you while Komel confirms she is the right fit.
03
Confirm and get your Meet link
Komel sends a payment link for that session. Once it is paid, the Google Meet link lands in your inbox.
Sessions and pricing
Pick the session that fits, then a time.
Full session
60 minutes
USD 70USD 49
Your first session. USD 70 for sessions after that.
New client offerOne-off, no commitment
A complete therapy hour, one to one.
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Most chosen5-session plan
60 minutes
USD 49per session
Same price every time.
Save 30% per sessionPaid upfront, covers all five sessions
Five hours of real work at the lower rate the whole way through.
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Couples session
60 minutes, for two
USD 120USD 99
Your first session. USD 120 for sessions after that.
New client offerOne-off, no commitment
One hour with both partners on the same video call.
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From the practice
What Komel writes about, week to week.
When this is not the right fit
Komel is a psychologist and executive coach based in the UAE, working online worldwide. Sessions are private and self-funded, and cannot be claimed on local insurance or used for legal, medical or workplace reports. She does not prescribe or manage medication.
This is not an emergency service. If you are in immediate danger, use a local crisis line rather than a booking request. Her credentials and training and the full scope of practice are published.