Online Career Counselling
Explore career counselling practitioners, review their professional background and services, and book an available online session through LifeHetu.
Career counselling can provide a structured space to examine education, work and career decisions — what you are weighing up, what matters to you, and what you would need to find out next. What you discuss, and whether assessments or other tools form part of it, depends on your circumstances and the practitioner you choose.
Explore Career Counselling Practitioners
Independent professionals who offer career counselling through LifeHetu. Each one sets their own approach, availability and fee.
3 practitioners listed here
Irshad Md
TherapickMind™ · 5 yrs experience
₹1,700
Today, 6:00 pm
English, Hindi, Telugu +2
Video · Phone Call · Chat
Dr. S.S. Saini
e-Clinical Psychologist · 10 yrs experience
M.Phil (Clinical Psychology), Ph.D (Clinical Psychology),PGDCBM with 10 years experience
₹1,499
Today, 6:00 pm
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Video · Phone Call · Chat
Dr Jignesh Ahir
11 yrs experience
Masters in Applied Psychology, M.Phil. Ph.D in Psychology Research Gold Medalist
From ₹2,000
Today, 6:00 pm
English, Hindi, Gujrati
Video · Call · Chat
Fees and availability shown come from each practitioner’s own current settings. This listing is not ranked or scored.
What to Consider When Choosing a Career Counselling Practitioner
There is no way to know in advance who you will work well with, and reasonable people choose differently. Reading a few profiles is usually the most useful thing you can do. Things worth looking at:
Professional role
What each practitioner is, in their own words, rather than a title assigned by LifeHetu.
Qualifications
The degree or training they hold and the institution that issued it, as they have provided it.
Years in practice
How long they have been working, calculated from the year they started.
Services they offer
What you can actually book with them. Some offer career counselling alongside other counselling services.
Whether they use assessments
Not everyone does, and it is not on the profile as a field. Ask them before booking if it matters to you.
Language
The languages they offer sessions in.
Fee
The current fee for career counselling with that practitioner, shown before you book.
Availability
When they actually have time open, which you can see before committing.
LifeHetu does not match you to a practitioner, assess your situation, rank practitioners or recommend one over another — there is no matching service and no quality score behind this listing. Explore the profiles and decide who you would like to speak with. If you need help using the site or understanding what you are looking at, you can contact us; that is navigation help, not professional career advice.
What Is Career Counselling?
Career counselling is a structured process in which someone works with a practitioner to explore education, work and career questions. Depending on the person and the practitioner, that might cover interests, strengths, values and priorities, education so far, previous experience, possible directions, a transition being considered, or simply how to approach a decision that will not settle.
It is a way of thinking something through with someone whose work is helping people think it through — not a diagnostic procedure that identifies a correct career. A conversation can widen the set of options you are considering, surface what you have been weighing without naming, or turn a vague unease into specific questions worth researching.
One session does not produce a definitive answer, and no practitioner can tell you what your career should be. Career decisions depend on circumstances, opportunity, timing, finances and what you want at the time — most of which sit outside the room.
Who Might Consider Career Counselling?
There is no single audience for this, and no threshold you have to cross first. People who may find it useful to explore include:
Students
Weighing subject choices, courses or directions, and wanting to widen the options being considered.
Graduates
Deciding what to do next, including whether to study further or start working.
Early-career professionals
A few years in, and reconsidering whether the direction taken is the one to continue with.
Working professionals
Weighing a move, a specialism, a role change or a longer-term direction.
People considering a change
Thinking about moving field or function, and wanting to think it through first.
People returning to work
After a break for caring, health, study or any other reason, and working out how to re-enter.
You do not need to fit one of these neatly. Wanting to understand a decision better is reason enough to have a conversation, and it is reasonable to book one without knowing exactly what you want from it.
What Can You Explore in Career Counselling?
What a session covers is set between you and the practitioner. People commonly bring:
Interests, and what you actually find engaging rather than what you are told you should
Strengths, and where your experience so far has taken you
Values and priorities — pay, security, autonomy, location, hours, the people around you
Education choices, and whether more study serves the direction you want
Career options you know about, and finding ones you do not
A change of direction, and what it would realistically involve
Being stuck between two or more alternatives
A transition already underway — a promotion, a relocation, a return after a break
How you make decisions, and what keeps stalling this one
Questions worth researching before deciding anything
What a possible next step could look like
Career counselling supports exploration and decision-making. It is not recruitment, placement or admissions consulting: it does not guarantee employment, admission, promotion or any particular career outcome. If a practitioner separately offers something like interview preparation, that will be on their own profile as a service.
Are Career Assessments Always Part of Counselling?
Not necessarily. Some practitioners use structured tools as part of career exploration — questionnaires, interest inventories or formal psychometric assessments. Others work primarily through conversation, or use a mix depending on the person in front of them. Neither approach is the standard one.
Where an assessment is used, it is best understood as one input into a conversation rather than an answer produced by a machine. A well-constructed instrument can describe patterns in what someone reports about themselves — what tends to interest them, how they tend to prefer working. It does not measure aptitude with certainty, predict success, or identify a correct career, and a responsible practitioner will say so while going through the results with you.
If assessments matter to you either way, ask before you book. The practitioner decides what they use, what it is for and how they interpret it — LifeHetu does not administer, score or interpret assessments, and does not recommend careers based on any test result.
What Can an Online Career Counselling Session Be Like?
Sessions booked through LifeHetu are online. You connect remotely with the practitioner you chose at the time you booked.
A first conversation often covers the question that brought you, some background on your education and work so far, and what you are hoping to get out of talking. Many practitioners will describe how they work and what the sessions might look like — and it is entirely reasonable to ask, if they do not.
Beyond that, sessions vary. What is offered is set by the practitioner, not by LifeHetu. Not everyone receives a written report, an assessment, an action plan or a career roadmap — those depend entirely on the practitioner and the service you book, so ask if you are expecting one.
It helps to arrive with the question you are actually stuck on, even if it is vaguely formed, and with a rough sense of what you have already considered and ruled out. A quiet space and an uninterrupted stretch of time make the conversation easier.
How Online Booking Through LifeHetu Works
Explore practitioners
Browse the professionals who offer career counselling. Nothing is behind a sign-up.
Read the profile
Qualifications, years in practice, languages, the services they offer and how they describe their own work are on each profile.
Choose the service
Pick career counselling from the services that practitioner offers. The fee is shown for that service.
Pick a time
Availability comes live from the practitioner’s own calendar, so the times shown are the ones open.
Confirm and pay
Complete the booking, and you receive the details for your session.
Career Counselling, Career Coaching and Therapy Are Not the Same Thing
These overlap in practice and the labels are used loosely, but they typically differ in emphasis. None is better than the others; they answer different questions.
Career counselling
Tends to focus on understanding a career decision and the things shaping it — interests, values, circumstances, the options actually available — and on how to approach the choice.
Career coaching
Tends to be more action- and performance-oriented, working towards a defined goal. What it covers depends heavily on the individual professional.
Psychological counselling or therapy
Addresses emotional and mental-health concerns more broadly. Work can be part of that, but the focus is not the career decision itself.
Recruitment and admissions
A different activity altogether. Neither LifeHetu nor a career counselling practitioner acts as a recruiter, placement agency, employer or admissions consultant.
A practitioner’s own profile states their professional role and the services they offer. If you want one of these specifically, that is the place to check, and a reasonable thing to confirm with them before booking.
Related Pages
If one of these is closer to what is going on, these pages go into more detail.
When Career Questions Are Part of Something Larger
Career uncertainty sometimes sits alongside sustained stress, burnout, low confidence or difficulty at work, and the two can be hard to separate. Where a broader emotional or mental-health concern is the more pressing part, an appropriately qualified mental health professional may be a better starting point than career-focused guidance — and a career counselling practitioner may say the same. This page cannot tell you which of those you are dealing with, and it is not an assessment of your situation.
Online Sessions, and Meeting in Person Later
LifeHetu currently enables online session booking, and the structure and suitability of a session depend on the practitioner and the service you select. After connecting with a practitioner, you can discuss directly whether an in-person meeting could be an option in the future. Whether that is possible depends on the practitioner’s own location, availability and working arrangements — any such arrangement is between you and them, and is not managed by LifeHetu.
Career Counselling Questions
It is a structured process in which someone works with a practitioner to explore education, work and career questions — interests, strengths, values and priorities, experience so far, possible directions, or how to approach a decision. What it covers depends on the person and the practitioner. It is a way of thinking something through, not a procedure that identifies a correct career.
No. Students, graduates, early-career professionals, people well into a career, people considering a change of field and people returning to work after a break all use it. The questions differ, and so does what a session is likely to cover.
No, and a practitioner who promises that is overstating what the work can do. Counselling can help you explore your interests, strengths, values and the options available, and turn a vague sense of being stuck into specific questions worth investigating. The decision remains yours, and it depends on circumstances, opportunity, timing and finances — most of which sit outside the conversation.
No. Career counselling supports exploration and decision-making. It is not recruitment, placement or admissions consulting, and neither LifeHetu nor a practitioner listed here acts as a recruiter, placement agency, employer or admissions consultant. No employment, admission, promotion, salary change or other career outcome is guaranteed.
Not necessarily. Some practitioners use structured tools — questionnaires, interest inventories or formal psychometric assessments — while others work primarily through conversation. Where one is used, it is one input into a conversation rather than a definitive answer: it does not measure aptitude with certainty, predict success or identify a correct career. LifeHetu does not administer, score or interpret assessments. If it matters to you either way, ask the practitioner before booking.
They overlap in practice and the labels are used loosely, but they typically differ in emphasis. Career counselling tends to focus on understanding a career decision and what is shaping it. Career coaching tends to be more action- and goal-oriented, depending heavily on the individual professional. Psychological counselling or therapy addresses emotional and mental-health concerns more broadly. None is better than the others — a practitioner’s own profile states their professional role and the services they offer.
Read a few profiles and compare professional role, qualifications, years in practice, the services they offer, languages, the current fee and when they have time available. LifeHetu does not match you to a practitioner, rank practitioners or assess which one suits you — explore the profiles and decide who you would like to speak with.
Both are on the practitioner’s profile. Fees are set by each practitioner and differ between practitioners and between the services they offer, so the fee shown is the one for career counselling with that person. Availability is drawn live from their own calendar.
There is no universal number. It depends on what you are trying to work out, how broad the question is, the practitioner and the scope of the service. Some people have one conversation to get unstuck; others return while a decision plays out. You can discuss this with the practitioner.
LifeHetu currently enables online session booking, and the structure and suitability of a session depend on the practitioner and service selected. After connecting with a practitioner, you can discuss directly whether an in-person meeting could be an option in the future. Whether that is possible depends on their own location, availability and working arrangements, and any such arrangement is between you and them — LifeHetu does not manage in-person session booking.
Sources & References
- American Psychological Association — Understanding psychological testing and assessmentWhat a psychological assessment can and cannot establish, and that results are interpreted by a professional rather than read off a score.
- National Career Development AssociationThe professional field of career development and the standards practitioners in it work to.
- International Association for Educational and Vocational GuidanceThat career guidance is an established international professional practice with its own ethical standards.
- World Health Organization — Mental health at workThat work and mental health interact, and that some difficulties around work need mental-health support rather than career guidance.
Explore Career Counselling Practitioners
Review practitioner profiles, current fees and available online sessions through LifeHetu.