Anushk Sinha was just four but often woke up from sleep troubled by horrific nightmares. At night, he couldn't sleep for fear that he would dream again and during the day nothing could hold his attention. His mother and stepfather, at their wits' end, took him to a family therapist. Families usually loathe taking their internal conflicts to someone else, especially in India. But as Leo Tolstoy said in Anna Karenina, "Happy families are all alike;every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". And urban India is waking up to the power of "talking it out" as a family to a complete stranger. "The reason why family counselling is on the rise is simply because there are more of us today, " says Reena Nath, a Delhi-based family therapist. "People are becoming aware that there are problems that need group conversations. You might want to talk but you might not find someone equipped to hear you as a family.