Counselling through consciousness is based on the emergent Consciousness based psychology that has been extrapolated from the psychology implicit in the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. In fact, it is a clinical application of the Integral Psychology or Integral Yoga psychology whose metaphysical basis has already been worked upon by notable Aurobindonian scholars.

Dr. Soumitra Basu has been developing this approach through more than three decades of practice and his experiences coupled with those of his collaborator has been put into a book titled Consciousness based Psychology (in Amazon).