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Whether you are a journalist, a potential therapist, or someone who just wants to reach a human, this is the door. We reply to real messages from real people.
Fenweh is a queer-affirmative, trauma-informed online therapy practice for Indians, based in Hyderabad.
Founded by Karthik Konda Venkata and Lenni George. Serving Indians at home and across the diaspora. The name speaks to a longing for home and belonging, held with tenderness.
General & press: hello@fenweh.com
Work with us: therapists and interns, get in touch above.
Based in: Hyderabad, India. Online everywhere.
What we are studying, and saying out loud.
We publish original, culturally-specific perspective on Indian mental health, made to be cited, questioned, and built on.
The State of the Indian Eldest Daughter
An upcoming original survey on parentification and the good-child tax.
In progressRecognition, not awareness
Our thesis: India does not have an awareness problem. It has a recognition problem.
Read the series →Affirmative care as a floor
Why queer-affirmative practice is a baseline, not a specialism.
Read the hub →In the media: as we are featured, we will gather it here. For interviews and data requests, write to hello@fenweh.com.
What Fenweh is, in a paragraph you can quote.
Boilerplate
Fenweh is a queer-affirmative, trauma-informed online therapy practice for Indians at home and across the diaspora, based in Hyderabad. It offers therapy in eleven languages with a team selected for cultural fluency as well as clinical training.
The name
Fenweh describes a longing for a place you have not been, or cannot return to. It is the feeling a lot of our clients arrive with and have never had a word for.
Where we have something specific to say.
- Why mental-health awareness campaigns in India have not translated into people seeking care.
- What queer-affirmative practice means beyond a rainbow in June.
- The therapy problem particular to the diaspora: culturally illiterate care abroad, and going quiet at home.
- Burnout in Indian workplaces, and why it is usually named months too late.
If you are publishing our mark.
Use the full lockup
Symbol and wordmark together, in colour on light grounds and white on dark. Keep clear space of one core height on every side.
Do not alter it
No recolouring, no stretching, no rotating, no effects, and never the contours without the solid centre.
Ask for the files
Write to us and we will send SVG and PNG in the right variants, rather than you pulling one off the page.
Working with us.
