NEW DELHI: For over a month, psychologist Bhawna Chauhan has been helping Delhi University students get settled in the city, deal with relationship issues and balance college education with part-time jobs. The Delhi University Women's Association runs the "Mind-Body Centre"- it offers counseling as well as consultation with a homeopath - for female students and staff-members only.
"We get about four-five cases in a day," says Chauhan, counselor at the centre. Most of those seeking help belong to the age group of 21-25. "A few of them are already under psychiatric treatment - it's mostly depression or paranoia- but most come for their relationship problems," she adds. Chauhan has also found herself helping students who've moved from villages to attend college in Delhi adjust to the move. She doesn't prescribe but may recommend homeopathy to fix relatively minor issues such as insomnia or lack of appetite.
In a recent case, she had a 21 year-old undergraduate from a Uttar Pradesh village come to her with help. She had split from her village boyfriend as she considered her own prospects better than his but was still attached to him. "She had tried a long-distance relationship for a while but broke it off. She had moved and had been exposed to the world beyond the village," explains Chauhan. The counseling service was the only available option. "She can't share her problem with her family as they are very conservative."
That last feature is common to all her clients. They go to the centre because they have no one else to talk to. Also, it is cheap. Elsewhere in Delhi, points out Chauhan, the counseling rates are too high for student pockets. At the mind-body centre it is Rs. 50 for the whole year - affordable even for the Kashmiri student from a J&K village who's studying in DU and at the same time holding a part-time job to supplement the family income. She has four sisters. "This girl was working too hard and there was stress both at work and in class," says Chauhan.
Each 'client' attends a minimum of three sessions. "The first two are for counseling" and what Chauhan describes as "talking therapy." In the third she teaches them "relaxation exercises." In some cases, she may ask them to return for a fourth round. The Mind-Body Centre is open at the DUWA office on Chhatra Marg, North Campus from 11 am to 6 pm on all days except Sunday.
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