Child Mental Health Services — Therapy, Assessments & Counselling

Whatever brought you here, you don't have to figure it out alone.

From a first conversation to therapy, medication, or a formal assessment, our team helps you understand what is going on, what actually helps, one step at a time throughout your journey

Family walking together — ICGC child mental health services

Most children benefit from a combination of the services below, decided after an initial evaluation — for children and adolescents aged 2–18.

Assessments & Testing

Structured testing fills in what a single conversation can't. Every result is ultimately read against DSM-5 criteria, so testing informs the picture — the diagnosis follows a recognized clinical standard.

Learning & Achievement Testing

Separates a true learning disability from a child who's simply behind for other reasons. Uses batteries like the NIMHANS SLD.

Condition-Specific Rating Scales

Scales like CARS (autism) and Conners-3 (ADHD), completed by parents and teachers to capture how symptoms show up across home and school.

Personality & Projective Testing

Tools like TAT and Rorschach explore temperament and underlying emotional conflict — useful with adolescents who may not say much in a first session.

Anxiety, Depression & Mood Assessment

Scales like BDI and HAM-A rate how severe anxiety or low mood actually is. The same tools are re-used to check whether treatment is working.

Career & Aptitude Testing

A combination of intelligence, aptitude, and personality testing to inform academic stream or career decisions — ends in a report and a discussion with student and parents.

Child & Family Counselling

Therapy for the child is often only part of the picture. Counselling works at three levels — the child, the family, and the parents themselves — depending on what's actually needed.

Individual & Adolescent Counselling

CBT or DBT or any specific approach for anxiety, low mood, anger, or exam stress. Adolescents in particular often open up more easily in one-to-one sessions.

Family Counselling

Works through household dynamics directly, not the child in isolation. Family dynamics, sibling relationships, and how caregivers cope all shape the outcome.

Parent Counselling & Guidance

What a diagnosis does and doesn't mean, and the everyday parenting skills to manage it — from recognizing when ordinary moodiness has crossed a line, to day-to-day confidence at home.

Parents — all conditions

Therapies for Children

Each suited to a different kind of difficulty. Most children benefit from a combination, decided after an initial assessment.

Speech & Language Therapy

Speech sounds, language, social communication, and swallowing. Delivered by a qualified speech-language pathologist.

Occupational Therapy & Sensory Integration

Skills for everyday life, and processing sensory input without overwhelm. Helps with developmental delay, learning difficulties, and sensory issues.

Play Therapy

A dedicated playroom and structured play let a child work through tantrums, fears, or the effects of a difficult experience in their natural language.

Social Skills Training

Teaches reading social cues, turn-taking, and managing friendships directly — individually or in small groups.

Remedial & Special Education

Not extra tuition. Where tuition repeats the same method more times, remedial education changes the method itself to match how a particular child learns — pinpointing the specific skill that's breaking down, then building around it.

Individualized Learning Plans

One-to-one or very small groups, built around each child's pace and learning style. For documented learning disability, we also work with schools on classroom accommodations and, where eligible, exam concessions.

Functional & Life Skills

For intellectual disability, focus shifts toward functional and life skills alongside academics — building the everyday independence a child will need beyond the classroom.

Medical Management

Many parents arrive at this conversation already anxious. The first step is always a thorough evaluation, not a prescription — and medication is suggested only when it's genuinely likely to help, almost always alongside therapy.

Psychiatric Evaluation & Medication Management

Frequent follow-up at first, then regular reviews. The goal is the lowest dose for the shortest time that does the job — not indefinite treatment by default. Not addictive; growth is monitored throughout.

Therapist with child at ICGC — book a consultation

Not sure where to start?   A first conversation is enough.