Training that’s clinical. A way of working that isn’t clinical-feeling.

I hold an MPhil in Clinical Psychology, recognised by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI), and an MA in Clinical Psychology before that. My training didn’t happen in one setting. Part of it was in a government hospital, working with the volume and range of cases that setting brings. Part of it was in private practice, where the pace is different and so is the relationship you build with one person over time.

Across that training I’ve worked with anxiety and mood disorders, with severe mental illness, and with children and adolescents.

That split matters to me. Government settings taught me to work fast, to hold a lot at once, and to not mistake severity for the only thing worth paying attention to. Private practice taught me to slow down, to let a person’s pace be the actual pace, and to treat the ordinary, unremarkable parts of someone’s life as just as real as the crisis that brought them in.

I’ve been curious about the mind and the brain since I was thirteen: how people come to feel, think and cope the way they do, and what goes on in an inner world no one else can see. That curiosity is what took me into clinical psychology, and it’s what I still bring into every session, alongside the rigour of my training. What I’ve taken from my work so far is that a person’s inner world usually makes sense once you understand where they’re standing.

A compass doesn’t tell you where to go. It tells you where you are, so you can decide. Most people don’t come to therapy because they don’t know anything about themselves. They come because they’ve lost their sense of where they’re actually standing, so every next step feels like a guess.

That’s the working idea behind a session with me. I’m not trying to hand you an answer faster than you’d find it yourself. I’m trying to help you get oriented: enough clarity about where you’re standing that you can see the options in front of you, and choose deliberately instead of by default. Some sessions that looks like naming a pattern out loud for the first time. Some sessions it’s slower than that. Either way, orientation comes before direction.

In practice, I draw on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) within an integrative approach. That means I choose tools to fit you and what you’re facing, rather than fitting you to a single method. Every piece of work begins with a clinical assessment, so we’re working on the right thing.