Registered psychotherapist (Q)

• Jul 2023 - Present

Registered psychotherapist (Q)

• Mar 2023 - Present

Associate Psychotherapist

• Nov 2022 - Present

Clinical Psychologist

• Feb 2020 - Nov 2022

Held my own private practice in both online and offline modality, offering individual psychotherapy to patients presenting with a diverse set of emotional difficulties like unexplained low mood, anxiety, self harm ideation, or presenting with interpersonal difficulties like conflicts with colleagues, friends or marital issues. The idea was to generate insight and self awareness in the patients in such a way that they could understand their own chronic patterns, and help them develop greater ego strength and tolerance capacity to withstand distressing scenarios and respond to it in healthier ways. •In regards to psychotherapy, took care to take detailed intake in the first few sessions, develop some tentative hypothesis, goals, psychoeducate the patient about therapy process and my role and requirements from them in terms of structure, fees, privacy. •Regularly also sought supervision in both individual and group format, for the work I was doing in independent practice. •The work was more guided by psychoanalytic style of thinking and thus the supervision taken was also of the same orientation. •To keep myself updated with the various new formats of therapy in Psychoanalysis, like ISTDP, I also participated in 3 day webinars to enhance my skills and understanding of the dynamics of therapy. •I also joined a peer supervision group which entailed presenting one's work to one's peers to garner more Show less

Psychologist

• Nov 2019 - Sep 2022

The work entailed: -Individual therapy work with college going students and staff members, using an eclectic approach and relying on the principles of ISTDP, CBT, Mindfulness based techniques and a Psychoanalytic approach. -Dealt with a wide range of issues right from clearly stated emotional difficulty like anxiety, depression, self harm ideation, internal conflicts with self esteem. Additionally also responded to emotional difficulties underlying an indirect presenting issue statement such as issues in adjusting to academics, college regime, difficulty in interpersonal relationships, or any unexplained physical symptoms with no significant organic underpinning to it. -I used my clinical training in terms of taking detailed case history, developing some working understanding of the patient's difficulties, doing assessments if needed, setting up goals collaboratively with the patient, psychoeducating them about therapy and how this is different from other approaches or practices. •Provided therapy in both in person modality and online vis-à-vis video sessions. •Held group based interactions and seminars on topics like "Self compassion", "Dealing with Pandemic", "Understanding suicidality and prevention". Additionally frequently held “Listening circles” during pandemic for students to have a space to share their experiences and interact with each other. •Developed the modules and trained the interested student volunteers in basic listening skills, as part of a "Human cafe" endeavor which looked at providing the students with a non judgmental listening space where the students can be heard by their peers. •Developed the modules and trained the Psychology teachers in basic counselling skills, so they could provide a supportive space to students and also refer those in need of more intensive therapy space. • Co-authored and published a paper on the effects of Pandemic in collaboration with the colleagues from the college. Show less

Clinical Psychology Trainee

• Jul 2017 - Jun 2022

Learned the basics of psychometric, psychodiagnostic assessments , how to use that in conjunction with therapy, how to write reports about the test findings. •Worked in different unit postings, namely-Neuropsychology, Adult Psychiatry, Rehabiliation unit, Deaddiction center, Family psychiatry ward, Child & Adolescent psychiatry ward, Behavioral therapy unit. •Learned to take detailed case history and make diagnosis and do follow up. •Engaged in psychotherapy in individual, couples & family formats, using different orientations like Cognitive Behavioral therapy, Narrative analysis, Psychodynamic psychotherapy, Behavioral therapy. •In regards with therapy, learned the nuances pertaining to therapy like goal setting, how to review the work done in collaboration with the patient, how to psychoeducate the patient or his/her family members about the various aspects of the pathology and treatment. •Completed 1 year of dissertation work which was based on substance-abuse and understanding it from a psychodynamic perspective. •Completed other academic obligations in terms of submitting psychotherapy reports, presenting the work done with patients at departmental level, giving annual exams and passing the administration exams for the selected psychometric and psychodiagnostic assessments like Rorshcach. •Completed approximately 1700 hours of supervised work entailing assessments, psychotherapy, detailed case work and follow up. •Learned to work in team set up and worked with psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and psychiatric social workers. Ensured following up with the patients daily and updating the session notes daily in the patient’s file. Show less

Counsellor

• Oct 2016 - Jun 2017

• Held individual therapy sessions with college students and staff ( teaching & non-teaching) • Work towards destigmatizing counselling work and generating greater visibility & acceptance around it via holding presentations on various relevant themes like, ‘What is Counseling’, ‘Coping with Stress’ • Held individual therapy sessions with college students and staff ( teaching & non-teaching) • Work towards destigmatizing counselling work and generating greater visibility & acceptance around it via holding presentations on various relevant themes like, ‘What is Counseling’, ‘Coping with Stress’

Counsellor

• Jan 2015 - Jul 2016

•Held individual counselling sessions with the female staff and students of Delhi University. •Spearheaded the Online and telephonic counselling project which encomnline Counselling set up: passed responding to patients via virtual forums like e-mail, voicemail and active calling facilities. • Held seminars at various departments and colleges of Delhi University on relevant topics like “Stress Management”, “decoding Mental Health”. To increase awareness about this University funded counselling centre, also set up health camps at various departments and colleges of Delhi University. •Spearheaded the Online and telephonic counselling project, which entailed holding brief counselling sessions over telephone, generating more awareness about counselling, responding to the concerns of the staff/students over e-mails and maintaining reocords of the call recording, the nature of the calls received. ________________________________________ Show less

Psychologist

• May 2014 - Dec 2014

• Held individual counselling sessions with adolescents at a school in Nizzamudin basti (Lajpat Nagar) and with adolescents & young adults at Dyal Singh College( adjacent to JLN Stadium) • Conducting group sessions imparting Life Skills at Nizzamudin basti to the children coming for vocational training. It was a set up provided by Aga Khan Development Network. -Held presentations on relevant themes like ‘Bullying’ ‘Peer pressure’ with students of class 5th to 8th at Sanskriti school. •Helped the children at the Nizzamudin Basti in making an informed career choice. To achieve the same, interest and aptitude tests were administered to each child, tailor made reports were prepared for each child, detailing the preferable career paths and the universities/institutes in India offering courses for the relevant career. • Gender Sensitization Training Workshops: Held Gender sensitization workshops with Delhi auto drivers and cab drivers, generating awareness in them about what they can do on their part to make the female passengers feel safer on roads. • Administered psychological tests and made reports for clients seen at the Manas office. • Wrote for Manas Blog on various issues like “Body Image Issues”, “Depression and Relationships. Show less