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21+ yrs counselling experience. M.Sc.Human Development

Prachi Chitre is an experienced mental health professional and in her extensive career she has helped many clients navigate through their mental health concerns. She has lived in different cities and has a vast experience of working with individuals of different age groups and from varied backgrounds.  Parenting questions regarding children’s academic, behavioural and emotional concerns, marital and relationship issues and dealing with stress and anxiety are her areas of expertise. Prachi frequently designs and creates mental health and child development resources including online blogs, conducts workshops for parents, teachers and students and advises youth on career choice. She believes that the success of therapy is dependent on a strong client-counsellor relationship built on mutual respect and rapport, the counsellor’s non judgmental attitude and the client’s willingness to work on self.

17+ yrs counselling experience. MA (Clinical Psychology)

Manjiri Gokhale is a Clinical Psychologist with strong experience in the field of counselling and psychometric testing. 

Her experience ranges from parental concerns, behavioral problems in children and adolescents, academic issues in children and adolescents, screen obsession, relationship issues, marital problems, to work-life balance. She works with individuals recovering from various psychological disorders (like depression, anxiety, panic attacks, schizophrenia, personality disorders) through therapy.  She is well-versed with the latest psychometric tests.

She has donned various hats in her career, as a blogger , an undergraduate lecturer, a college counsellor, and a researcher. She has won the ‘Anima Sen best paper’ award ( 2018) for ‘Rehabilitation with Dance Therapy’ published in the journal Disabilities and Impairments. . She has handled content creation for a first of its kind audio-visual unit dedicated exclusively to mental health called AVAHAN.

Currently she is also  working with children and adolescents who have gadget dependency and developing effective techniques to counter it. 

11+ yrs of experience,  M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

Swapnil has a strong experience in the field of mental health as a psychologist. He has been trained in using principles of RECBT, Cognitive therapy, Trauma therapy and Transactional Analysis. He works with adolescents, young adults as well as adults. He helps his clients who have been facing normal day to day concerns such as procrastination, academic difficulties, time management etc. Not only this he also sees clients with psychological concerns such as depression, anxiety, OCD, personality disorders. His expertise lies in relationship management (both pre and post marital), substance and behavioral addictions and issues pertaining to sexual behaviors.  Swapnil is fluent in Marathi, English and Hindi languages. He believes that all of us are vulnerable at some time to experience negative emotions and stress leading to maladaptive actions. So, we all need support and help of each other. He has faith in goodness in all human beings and aims at giving his clients a listening ear, empathetic understanding to their issues and kindle their own process of self-discovery with the help of scientific psychological tools

11+ yrs of experience, M.A. Applied Psychology (Clinical)

Panna is a Psychologist who feels very passionately about Mental Health.

She is a post-graduate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Mumbai and has her own private practice.

As a therapist, she believes that her primarily role is one of compassion and communication. Only by actively listening to the client's concerns can a therapist help them develop healthy and productive ways of coping.

Her clinical experience includes working with children, adolescents and adults alike. Her areas of experience include - couple's counselling, managing depression, anxiety, personality conditions, childhood disorders, stress management and so on.

Therapeutically, she is more involved with Rational Emotive Cognitive Behavior Therapy (RECBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) as primary approaches to counselling.

She also has a broad experience in administering a variety of psychological assessments which help in streamlining the treatment plan.

Though dealing with disorders and distress is the primary goal of her clinical practice, she has been increasingly been focusing

on ‘Positive Psychology’. This involves going beyond just diagnosis and also focusing on mental health rather than mental illness, optimal functioning rather than minimal functioning and development rather than dysfunction. The aim is to thrive rather than just survive.

9+ yrs of experience, MA (Clinical Psychology)

Eaishwarya has strong experience working with age groups ranging from 6 yrs to late 30’s. 

She has worked with adolescents, individually as well as in groups. The areas of work include problems with respect to their self-image and identity crisis, relationship issues, body image concerns and bullying and more severe clinical conditions as well. Having trained in psychometric assessments,  she has also worked on In -person play sessions with children and  emotional-behavioural issues in children including but not limited to parenting. She is currently associated with a private clinic in Navi Mumbai and an organisation in Thane (IPH), in addition to working with an NGO in the capacity of a consultant for their program on prevention of gender based violence. 

She believes that honesty, commitment and a collaborative partnership, rather than advice giving or fixing up a problem are healthy markers for therapeutic success. 

10+ yrs of experience, MA (Clinical Psychology)

Shraddha has strong experience working with children, adolescents and young adults. She is a clinical psychologist and an arts based therapist. 

With children her experience ranges from IQ and developmental (neurological, social, emotional, personality, visio-motor) assessments to Play therapy and art based therapy sessions using music, dance and drama, visual arts for areas such as inattention, memory, hyperactivity, stage fear etc.

She has  developed Curriculum for children with mental retardation, autism and hyperactivity. and developed guidance protocol for parents and teachers of children with special needs such as Mental retardation, Borderline Intelligence, ADHD, Autism etc.

With Adolescents she has worked on life skills and adolescent sensitisation workshops, leadership skills, counselling and workshops in study skills time management, relationship issues, etc

She has experience in working with young adults on  pre marital counselling, mindfulness, career decision making, managing relationships, work-life balance, assertiveness, anger management, goal setting etc

She is Pearson Psychorp certified administrator of the IQ test - WISC IV (India) and Experienced in conducting ROR, TAT, CAT, DBDA, Bender-Gestalt test, etc. She has built tests to measure critical thinking and creative thinking. She also conducts a series of webinars on Mindfulness. 

Some of the top organisations she has worked with are MModal Global Services pvt ltd, Pune., Schools like B.S.M. English Medium School, thane, Kvk Ghatkopar Sarvajanik school, Ghatkopar, Paranjpe Vidyalaya, Andheri, Asmita Vidyalaya, Jogeshwari. Disha counselling centre ,Dadar and Free lance work with PE&RLS.

She strongly believes that every individual has the ability to take charge of their own lives and lead a happy and cheerful life. She mainly focuses on Insight - oriented and cognitive- behavioural approach of counselling. 

13+ yrs of experience, MA (Clinical Psychology)

Kavitagauri has strong experience in counselling, psychotherapy, and psychometric assessment with a wide age group ranging from children to adults.  

She has worked with individuals with a wide range of emotional health concerns including anxiety, depression, personality disorders; and has helped many with stress management, time management, procrastination, formation of new habits, and improving the overall quality of life. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) happens to be the area of her special interest and expertise. 

Her workshops and training programs on a plethora of subjects related to mental health have been widely appreciated. The support group that she runs for people struggling with OCD has recently entered it's 3rd successful year.

In addition she has been publishing articles in magazines and newspapers, on subjects including mental health and her experience as a traveller, trekker and cyclist. 

She fundamentally believes that one holds the capacity to evolve one step further, from wherever one starts - subject only to the willingness to do so; and that one's thoughts are the key to one's life story. You can connect with her in  Marathi, English, Hindi 

15+ yrs of experience, PG Human Development, Certified Personal Profile Analysis Trainer, Certified Success Coach

Shreekrishna consults organizations in setting up Good People Processes. He is perusing process work (in the area of psychoanalysis) for 4 years and has applied the work in his consulting assignments. He has participated in Human process Labs as well as Group relations conference.

He conducts one on one sessions with clients across the sectors to enhance their personal growth / effectiveness by applying theories and concepts of experts in the area of psychology. 

Shreekrishna is a passionate trekker and cyclist and has visited more than 150 forts in Maharashtra. Through trekking, he has developed an interest in experiential learning in the area of Team building and Leadership. He has undergone Basic lab in Human processes and Phase I of Personal Growth Lab. He has been associated with Outbound training institute for two years and has Co-facilitated Outbound training programmes