Psychologist in Banani: Counselling & Therapy in Dhaka
- What brings professionals in Banani to therapy
- Discreet sessions, in person near Banani or online
- Psychologists in and around Banani
- How booking works
- Session fees
- Hustle, image and the younger corporate crowd
- Discreet, flexible, and matched to your world
- When drinking or substance use is part of the picture
- When ambition tips into burnout
- বাংলায় কিছু কথা
- How to book a psychologist in Banani
- Find your psychologist in Banani
- Frequently asked questions
Meet licensed clinical psychologists who see clients in person by appointment in Banani, and online across all of Bangladesh, in Bangla or English.
In person in Banani
In-person sessions are by appointment. Book first, we confirm the exact address and time before you visit. No walk-ins. Prefer to stay home? Every psychologist here also offers secure online sessions.
Banani runs on work. Head offices, agencies, startups and the people who keep them going late into the evening, it is one of Dhaka’s busiest commercial pockets, and one where burnout hides easily behind a full calendar. If the pressure has started following you home, a psychologist in Banani is worth talking to before it costs you your sleep, your relationships or your health.
Several of our psychologists offer in-person sessions around Banani and nearby Mohakhali, and the whole team is available online for the days when stepping out simply is not possible.
What brings professionals in Banani to therapy
The concerns we hear in Banani lean heavily toward work and its overflow:
- burnout, chronic stress and the feeling of running on empty
- anxiety, overthinking and pressure that spikes before deadlines, anxiety therapy
- low mood and loss of motivation that outlast a rough week, depression counselling
- relationships strained by long hours, couple counselling
If you are an employer rather than an individual, we also run workplace mental-health and Employee Assistance Programmes for teams across Dhaka.
Discreet sessions, in person near Banani or online
Privacy matters more when you work in a small professional world. You can meet a psychologist face-to-face near Banani, around Banani 11, Kemal Ataturk Avenue, Chairman Bari or nearby Mohakhali, or keep everything online and off the calendar entirely. Both use the same 54 licensed psychologists and the same confidentiality.
Psychologists in and around Banani
Four of our psychologists work the Banani–Gulshan–Baridhara corridor, which means you can usually be seen in person without leaving the neighbourhood, and after office hours rather than instead of them.
- Meghoboti Salma, Assistant Clinical Psychologist, 5+ years, in Banani. Addiction, depression and mood. ৳2,200 online, ৳2,500 in person.
- Nasim Billah, Assistant Clinical Psychologist, 9+ years, in Banani (also Green Road and Dhanmondi). Couples and marriage, anxiety and OCD, depression, career anxiety. ৳3,000.
- Tamima Tanjin, Senior Clinical Psychologist, 22+ years, at Baridhara. Addiction, couples and marriage, children and teens, trauma and grief. ৳3,000 online, ৳3,500 in person.
- Shuvo Sarkar, Assistant Clinical Psychologist, 9+ years, at Gulshan and Badda. Couples and marriage, psychological assessment. ৳2,200.
All four also work online, which for a lot of Banani clients is the point: a session from a meeting room, a car or home, with nobody in the building any the wiser. Compare everyone by specialty and fee, or book a session and we will match you.
How booking works
Two or three minutes: a short note on what is going on, your choice of online or in-person, and we match you to the right psychologist. First appointments are usually confirmed within 15 minutes, book a session to begin.
Session fees
Indicative session fees run ৳1,000–৳4,500 and are always confirmed before you book; student sessions are ৳1,000. See pricing for the full range.
Hustle, image and the younger corporate crowd
Banani is where a lot of Dhaka’s younger professional energy lives: agencies, startups, media houses, restaurants and the after-work social scene that surrounds them. It is fast, ambitious and image-conscious, a place where careers are built at speed and where being seen to be thriving is almost part of the job. That culture has an underside. The pressure to hustle constantly, to network, to keep up appearances online and offline, quietly wears people down, and many of the professionals we see from Banani are running on adrenaline and very little rest.
The concerns from this area reflect that pace. Founders and freelancers carry the loneliness and financial anxiety of building something alone. Young professionals hit burnout early, unable to switch off from work that follows them home on a phone. Dating and relationships form and fracture against a backdrop of packed schedules and high expectations. Behind the confident surface, a lot of quiet anxiety, low mood and exhaustion goes unspoken.
Discreet, flexible, and matched to your world
In a tight professional and social scene where everyone seems to know everyone, privacy is not optional. Everything you discuss is strictly confidential and never shared with your employer, your clients or your circle. Many people here prefer online sessions for exactly that reason, or come in person at a comfortable distance from their own office. We match you to a psychologist who understands the pressures of ambitious, fast-paced work, offer sessions in English or Bangla, and keep evening and online slots open so a demanding schedule never stands between you and getting help. If the fit is not right, you can switch.
When drinking or substance use is part of the picture
This is the part most counselling pages leave out, and it is one of the more common threads in this part of Dhaka. Two of the psychologists working the Banani corridor, Meghoboti Salma and Tamima Tanjin, the latter with over twenty years of clinical experience, list addiction as a core specialty. That is not a coincidence, and it is not a judgement about the area. It reflects who actually asks.
The usual version is not dramatic. It is a drink most evenings to come down from the day, then most evenings becoming every evening. It is needing something to sleep, or to be able to face a Sunday morning. It is a friend circle where the drinking is normal enough that nobody’s is a problem. It is nicotine, or a prescription that was for a fortnight and is now a habit, or a substance nobody at home knows about.
The World Health Organization is clear that alcohol use and mental ill health run in both directions: people drink to manage anxiety and low mood, and the drinking then deepens both. Which is why treating one and ignoring the other tends not to hold.
Coming in about this does not mean you are labelled an addict, and it does not start with anyone demanding you quit. It starts with an honest look at what the substance is doing for you, because it is almost always doing something, and what would have to be in place before you could do without it. Sessions are confidential, and nothing goes to an employer, a family member or anyone else.
When ambition tips into burnout
Drive is a strength until it stops letting you rest. If you are wired but exhausted, dreading work you used to love, or feeling flat despite outward success for more than two weeks, that is worth taking seriously. Reaching out early protects both your health and the career you are working so hard for. We see clients from Banani, Gulshan, Mohakhali and Baridhara, in person and online.
It is also worth naming that the pressure itself is not imagined. The World Health Organization estimates that depression and anxiety cost around 12 billion working days globally each year, and identifies excessive workload, long hours and poor job security as genuine risks to mental health rather than personal weaknesses. If work is what is grinding you down, that is a clinical concern, not a character flaw.
বাংলায় কিছু কথা
বনানীতে সাইকোলজিস্ট খুঁজছেন? চাম ওয়েলনেসের চারজন সাইকোলজিস্ট বনানী, গুলশান ও বারিধারা এলাকায় সরাসরি বসেন, আর সবাই অনলাইনেও সেশন নেন। অফিসের পরে বা লাঞ্চ ব্রেকে সেশন নেওয়া যায়, ফি ২,২০০ থেকে ৩,৫০০ টাকার মধ্যে।
এই এলাকার মানুষ সবচেয়ে বেশি যেসব কথা নিয়ে আসেন: কাজের চাপ আর বার্নআউট, সারাক্ষণ পারফর্ম করার চাপ, ঘুম না আসা, সম্পর্কের টানাপোড়েন, আর সবকিছু ঠিক আছে দেখানোর ক্লান্তি। অনেকে আসেন মদ বা অন্য কিছুর অভ্যাস নিয়েও, সেটা নিয়ে কেউ আপনাকে দোষ দেবে না।
সবচেয়ে বড় চিন্তা সাধারণত গোপনীয়তা নিয়ে, বিশেষ করে যদি অফিসের কেউ একই জায়গায় যায়। আপনার সেশনের কথা কেউ জানবে না, অফিসেও না, বাসায়ও না। বাংলা বা ইংরেজি, যেটায় আপনি সহজে বলতে পারেন।
Getting started
How to book a psychologist in Banani
Chum handles the matching and the details, you just turn up. No searching through profiles alone.
Tell us your concern
Share what you're going through, your area (Banani) and preferred times.
We match you
Our team suggests the right psychologist for your concern, language and budget.
Confirm your slot
Pick a time; we confirm your psychologist, usually within minutes.
Get the details
In person: we share the exact Banani address. Online: your secure video link.
Attend & continue
Have your confidential session; we help you rebook with the same psychologist.
Find your psychologist in Banani
Online across Bangladesh, or in person by appointment.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I book sessions around my work hours in Banani?
Yes. Many of our psychologists offer early-morning, evening and weekend slots designed for working professionals.
Is it confidential if my colleagues use Chum too?
Completely. Sessions and records are private to you; nothing is shared with an employer, including in corporate programmes.
Do you offer support for whole teams?
Yes, see our Employee Assistance Programme for organisations.
Can I have sessions without it clashing with my work hours?
Yes. Many of our psychologists offer early-morning, evening and weekend slots built for working professionals, in person near Banani or entirely online and off your calendar.
How this article was made
- Written by
- Chum Wellness editorial team
- Clinically reviewed by
- Mst. Swampa, Senior Clinical Psychologist, BCPS member
- Last updated
- October 1, 2026
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