Online
From Chidambaram this is how almost everybody attends: a video or voice call from your room, your hostel or your house, with no journey at either end. It fits into a gap in the day.
- Attend from
- Chidambaram, or anywhere
- By
- Video or voice call
Talk to a counsellor you can trust, in Tamil or English.
Counselling in Chidambaram
Get help one-to-one
Talk to a counsellor from Chidambaram
Online from your own room, or in person at the practice in Neyveli. Tamil or English, whichever you would rather use.
Counselling in Chidambaram
Two ways to attend, and the session is the same one either way — the same counsellor, the same hour, in Tamil or English.
In person
The practice is in Neyveli Township, and from Chidambaram the drive is the longest of the towns immediately around it. You are welcome to come — same counsellor, same hour — but most people here find the call easier.
62 A, Type 1 Quarters, Block - 5,
Neyveli Township, Neyveli,
Tamil Nadu 607803
What you can bring
A town with a university in it has a particular set of pressures: being far from home for the first time, exams that decide things, and living among people who all know each other. Families who have always lived here have their own. Sessions cover all of it.
Who you would be talking to
Mr. Chakkaravarthy RK
DCP., ACCM., NLP Practitioner
Life Coach & Counselling Practitioner
One counsellor, not a rota — the same person every session, in Tamil or English, with 6+ years of experience.
Read the full profileQuestions from Chidambaram
I am a student at Annamalai. Can I attend between classes?
Yes, and most students do. An online session needs a phone and a quiet half hour, so it fits into a gap in the day without anyone having to travel anywhere.
Chidambaram is small. Will anyone know I came?
Sessions are one-to-one and confidential, and an online session means there is no building to be seen walking into. Nothing you say is passed on to your family, your college or anyone else.
Is there a counsellor in Chidambaram itself?
Not at this practice. There is one practice, in Neyveli Township. From Chidambaram, online is the sensible route, and it is the same session.
Which language will the session be in?
Tamil or English. If you have come to Chidambaram to study from another part of the state, say which you would rather use and we will use it.
Other towns around the practice
The same counsellor, the same sessions, reached from somewhere else.
About Chidambaram
Chidambaram is a temple town and a university town at once. The Thillai Nataraja temple has drawn people here for centuries; Annamalai University has been here since 1929, with Rajah Muthiah Medical College alongside it.
So a large part of the town at any given moment is students and staff who came from somewhere else — often far from home for the first time, in a place where everybody else appears to know each other already.
You are not alone. We are here to listen.
Talk to someone who will take the time to understand the whole of it before saying anything about what to do next.
Counselling is not emergency care. If you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services. India-wide, free and open 24 hours: Tele-MANAS — 14416.