Emotional support
in your own language.

Yes. Hearth offers one-to-one online peer support with Keepers who speak Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi as well as English. You are matched by hand within 72 hours with one trained listener and keep the same person for years: a call every two weeks for $39 a month, or weekly for $99. It is peer support, not therapy.

Why your first language matters.

Plenty of people who live their working lives in English still feel things in another language. The word your mother used, the phrase your grandfather said at the door, the particular weight of a family obligation: they arrive in Urdu or Hindi or Punjabi, and something gets lost when you translate them for a listener who does not know them.

Translation also costs effort. When you have to stop and explain what izzatmeans in your family, or why the eldest son cannot simply say no, or why an aunt’s comment at a wedding is still with you a year later, you spend the hour on context instead of on what you came to say. Talking to someone who already knows the shape of it means you can start in the middle.

Many people also switch between languages in a single sentence. That is normal, and a listener who can follow you between English and your first language lets you speak the way you actually think.

What people find hard to say in English.

None of this is a diagnosis. It is the ordinary, recurring weight that many South Asian families carry, and the things people most often bring to a Keeper.

• Duty to parents and family. Being the eldest, the one who earns, the one who mediates, the one everyone calls first.
• Family pressure about marriage and career. The rishta conversations, the career your parents chose, the comparisons with cousins.
• In-laws and the joint family. Living with or near a whole household of expectations, and having nowhere private to put the frustration.
• Grief, especially from far away. Losing a parent or grandparent in another country, missing the funeral, and grieving where nobody around you knew them.
• Faith and doubt. Holding belief, questioning it, or both, without being judged by either side.
• Identity between cultures. Being too much of one place for the other, and code-switching all day.

We have written more about family pressure, grief and identity.

How Hearth works in your language.

Hearth is one-to-one online peer support. You are matched with one Keeper, a trained peer listener, and you keep the same person for years. You talk in a Sit, a 35 to 60 minute video or audio call, and in between there is the Long Talk, a written message thread with your Keeper.

• You choose your language. The 12-minute intake asks which language you would rather talk in: Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi or English.
• We match on language first. A person reads your intake and pairs you within 72 hours, on language first, then time zone, then what you are carrying.
• The same person, every time. Your Keeper remembers last month and last year, so you never start your story from the beginning again.
• Trained and supervised. Every Keeper completes Hearth’s 120-hour training, a background check and monthly supervision. Many trained as psychologists or counsellors in their home countries. None act as clinicians at Hearth.
• Support between calls. Write to your Keeper any day and hear back within a day (within 4 hours on the weekly plan), plus a short note from them every Friday.
• Simple pricing. $39 a month for a Sit every two weeks, or $99 for weekly. Change Keepers after your first Sit at no charge. Cancel any time, in one click.

Hearth is for anyone, not only South Asians. Language is simply one of the things we match on. How Hearth works · Pricing

Each service below was checked on its own website on 25 October 2026. Some are therapy with psychologists, some are helplines, and one is peer support. They do different jobs.

Links: The Meeting Matters, AAHNA South Asian Therapy, South Asian Network, SAMHIN, Tele-MANAS.

Hearth is the only option above built around one person who stays and who speaks your language. If you want more on how one-to-one support works, read one-to-one peer support, explained or our guide to what peer support is.

When you need a therapist instead.

Peer support is for the weight of ordinary life. Some things need a licensed clinician, in any language:

• A diagnosis, or a suspected one. Depression, an anxiety disorder, PTSD, OCD, bipolar disorder or an eating disorder.
• Trauma. Abuse, assault or violence, including at home. Trauma has specific treatments that need a trained clinician.
• Medication. Only a doctor or psychiatrist can have that conversation with you.
• Thoughts of harming yourself. Please use the crisis numbers at the top of this page today.

If any of these come up, your Keeper will say so plainly and help you find a therapist, including one who speaks your language, and will stay with you while you do. The services in the table above that offer therapy are a good place to start.