Malvika Varma

Counsellor

Malvika Varma is an RCC who specializes in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Rational Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT) and works with a wide range people in helping them learn techniques to manage various behavioural, emotional and life challenges like anxiety, insecurities, depression, low self-worth, anger, stress and more.

The extensive range of human emotions and the complexity of our thoughts is truly unique to being human and can really add excitement, novelty and meaningfulness to our existence. But sometimes it's quite easy to feel overwhelmed and tangled with our emotions and thoughts. That is when we could all use empathy, direction and support to get these knots undone and work through common stressors using evidence-based therapies like CBT and RECBT. 

Malvika has a master’s degree in psychology from SNDT University, Mumbai and bachelor’s in psychology (Honours) from University of Delhi, India. She has received 'Advanced Training' in Rational Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy from the Albert Ellis Institute, New York, USA. 

In 2015 Malvika co-founded aStereoTherapy, based in Mumbai, as her personal and primary clinic for psychotherapy. She moved to Canada in 2020 and since then has been offering online counselling services to clients from India, Canada, UK, Singapore, Australia, France and USA. Through the course of her 10 years of practice, Malvika has worked with adults, children, couples and families and helped people from all walks of life and backgrounds learn effective ways to manage various emotional and behavioural roadblocks to happiness like anxiety, depression, anger, self-worth issues, procrastination, stress and lifestyle issues and more.

Malvika believes strongly in a person’s ability to choose their emotions thereby having the power to create their own emotion stories and destinies despite the challenges that life has thrown at them. Learning how to harness this choice is how therapy helps us reduce distress and maximise well-being.