Well-being support for life in Switzerland, in your language.
One-to-one well-being counselling sessions online for parents, professionals and students living in Switzerland, from qualified Indian counsellors who understand both where you live and where you come from.
Switzerland Schedule
Zurich TimezoneSchedule sessions easily across your timezone and India
- CHF 35 per 50-minute session, paid one session at a time
- Book at least one day ahead
- Sessions run during India daytime hours, shown in your local time
Life in Switzerland
Life in Switzerland can mean high living costs, a permit that shapes your next move, and a new language to learn in a country with four of them. Many people are building careers in technology, finance, life sciences, research or international organisations in Zurich, Basel or Geneva, often with a partner who has paused their own work and family many hours away. Quiet Sundays, long winters and communities where friendships take time to grow can make it lonelier than it looks.
Mantraminds offers a calm, confidential space to talk it through with someone who understands, without having to explain your culture first.
Supporting Indian families across Switzerland
Indian professionals, students and families live across Switzerland, especially around Zurich, Basel, Geneva and Lausanne. Many work in technology, banking and finance, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, research and universities, or with international organisations in Geneva.
What people in Switzerland often talk to us about:
- settling in, permits and starting over in a new language;
- pressure at work and long hours in demanding roles;
- a partner who has put their own career on hold;
- raising children between Indian and Swiss ways of life;
- staying close to parents and family back home.
Times that can feel heavier: the first winter, Diwali and family weddings missed from afar, a permit renewal or job change, and when parents in India need care.
Our local support page lists free services in your area.
Who we support
Parents
Everyday parenting challenges, raising children across two cultures, teen communication, screen time and school pressure, and family routines.
Relationships
Communication and recurring conflict, in-law and extended-family pressures, intercultural relationships, adjusting after marriage, a new baby or a move.
Professionals
Work pressure, long hours, career changes after moving, work-life balance, confidence and workplace conflict, visa uncertainty.
Students (18+)
Homesickness and loneliness, study pressure, family expectations, career worries after graduation.
All adults
Everyday stress, life transitions, self-esteem, loss and change, healthy routines.
Why Mantraminds
Your language, your context
Sessions in English, Hindi and other Indian languages (depending on counsellor availability) with counsellors who understand Indian family life and the realities of building a life in Switzerland.
Qualified counsellors
Every Mantraminds Well-being Counsellor holds a qualification in psychology and works as part of the Mantraminds care team in New Delhi.
Online, in your local time
Sessions by secure video during India daytime hours, shown in your local time. Each counsellor sets their own hours, so you can choose the one whose hours suit you best.
Confidential
What you share stays private. See our Privacy Policy .
A trusted well-being partner
If what you need is something we don't offer, we'll help you find the right local support.
How it works
Tell us a little about you
A short form, about two minutes.
We check it's the right fit
Our team reads your answers and replies by email, usually within one working day.
Book your session
If we're a good fit, we email you a secure booking link. Please book at least one day ahead. Same-day sessions are offered only in exceptional cases, if a counsellor happens to be free, so please don't count on one. We place a hold on your card or PayPal account when you book, and only charge it 2 days before your session (or straight away if you book later than that).
Grow at your pace
Regular online sessions by secure video, with practical strategies and goals that are yours.
Fees
Well-being counselling session
What our service is — and isn't
Mantraminds offers well-being counselling for adults (18+): support with life's everyday challenges. To keep you safe, we're clear about what we don't offer in Switzerland:
- No diagnosis or treatment of mental health conditions
- No psychiatric consultations or medication
- No sessions for under-18s (we support parents instead)
- No crisis or emergency care
If our team feels you'd benefit from clinical care, we'll tell you honestly and help you find local services.
Need urgent help?
If you're in crisis or feel unsafe, please don't wait for a session:
- Emergency: call 144 (ambulance) or 112
- Die Dargebotene Hand / La Main Tendue / Telefono Amico (in German, French and Italian): Call 143 · chat and email at 143.ch (Day and night)
- Heart2Heart by 143.ch (in English): Call 0800 143 000 · chat and email at 143.ch/en (Daily 6pm–11pm)
Important information
About our counsellors. Mantraminds is based in India, and we hope to support people wherever they live. Our Well-being Counsellors are qualified and experienced in India, and some hold Indian registrations. Overseas qualifications and registrations do not give anyone registration to practise in Switzerland. Our counsellors are not registered with the Psychology Professions Register (PsyReg) or licensed by any cantonal health authority. When they work with clients in Switzerland, they act only as Well-being Counsellors, not as psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists or medical practitioners.
Not a health service. Our conversations are for everyday life challenges. They are not psychotherapy and don't identify or treat any illness. If you may be unwell, please see your doctor (Hausarzt / médecin de famille) or a licensed psychotherapist.
What this service doesn't provide. Our service is not a Swiss psychology, psychiatry or medical service. It doesn't provide:
- medical, psychiatric or psychological diagnosis, or diagnostic assessment;
- treatment of any mental health condition;
- prescribing, or advice on starting, stopping or changing medication;
- medical certificates, reports, letters or certificates for legal, insurance, employment, immigration or court purposes;
- emergency or crisis care.
When to seek care in Switzerland. If you have a diagnosed or suspected mental health condition, symptoms that are significant or getting worse, need medication or medical advice, or are already receiving mental health treatment, please seek or continue care with your GP (Hausärztin/Hausarzt, médecin de famille, medico di famiglia), who can refer you to a psychiatrist or a psychological psychotherapist covered by basic insurance. If your counsellor thinks you need clinical care, they will tell you and suggest local services.
Claims and reimbursement. Sessions can't be claimed through basic health insurance (LAMal/KVG), supplementary insurance (LCA/VVG), or employer schemes such as employee assistance programmes, and may not qualify for workplace or employer reimbursement. Please check with your employer before booking.
Your choice. Local services are available to you. By booking, you confirm you've chosen an India-based, non-clinical service instead, knowing the points above. Because our counsellors aren't registered locally, local regulators can't take complaints about them. Please bring any concern to us at contact@mantraminds.com.
In an emergency, call 144 (ambulance) or 112 or go to your nearest hospital emergency department (Notfall / urgences / pronto soccorso). You can also contact Die Dargebotene Hand / La Main Tendue / Telefono Amico (in German, French and Italian) (call 143 · chat and email at 143.ch).
This doesn't affect any rights you have under Swiss law. Swiss law doesn't give a general right to withdraw from online bookings, so our Cancellation & Refund Policy applies.
Frequently asked questions
You don't have to figure it out alone.
Talk to someone who understands your life here and where you come from.