Mental Health Counseling:
The intent behind all mental health counseling is to achieve emotional wellness and being able to function at your best, being able to cope with whatever stressor(s) life throws at you. As we work together, building on your psychological reservoirs such as hope, optimism, coping, appraisals, resilience becomes our prime goal. The range of clinical issues could include but are not restricted to mood and anxiety disorders and personality disorders.
Marriage & Family Therapy
The behaviors of family members affect not only individuals within the family, but also relationships between family members and a family as a whole. Working with families include individual sessions and joint sessions, depending on the presenting issue, which could range from marital and couple conflict, parent and child conflict, work and interpersonal stress, mental illness that impacts a person and the family. The therapy is always active, goal-oriented and work towards an established end result.
Grief Counseling:
Losing a parent is one of the most devastating losses I have been through personally. I know how difficult and tumultuous the grieving process can be. It leaves us in a state of intense anguish, it feels like a part of us changes forever. I am there offering my empathic support to those who have been through similar colossal losses.
Corporate Wellness & Coaching Sessions:
We live in a fast paced, uncertain, complex, often ambiguous and volatile environment where stress creeps up and affects individuals at a personal and professional level. Corporate wellness programs have largely focused on enhancing employee wellness, productivity, work life balance, finding job satisfaction, figuring out the essence of a meaningful and purposeful career, and customized workshops on the company’s needs. I have done wellness programs with EY, Rane t4u Pvt. Ltd., Sokrati Technologies Pvt. Ltd. & SBS Financial Advisory.
Enhancing Health and Living Well:
Stress is a fact of life, but it depends on you and how you let it affect your life, and how you deal with it. Stress not only causes but also worsens health conditions (e.g., diseases related to the heart, diabetes, depression & anxiety, obesity, headaches to name a few). And yet, the mind has a vast and rich potential for self-healing which is what leads us to the path of wellness, often with a preventive approach in mind. The focus of the wellness initiative is to enable you to identify the warning signs of stress, the sources of stress, how to boost resilience and happiness, and using strategies to change the way you look at things, and deal with them. The wellness programs are customized based on individual needs and styles of learning.
Pain Management:
Chronic pain is often accompanied with disruptions in mood, activities of life, relationships, and how people perceive and process the pain. I work in discussing emotional health and how it influences your physical health, the pain you experience, where and when it occurs, and what factors may affect it. Stress and worries are often addressed, particularly in relation to the pain, and interventions are customized for each individual, ranging from psychoeducation about pain, changing old beliefs about pain, building new coping skills, addressing any anxiety or depression that accompanies pain, teaching relaxation techniques, and enabling individuals to engage in life proactively.
People with Disabilities:
I strongly encourage optimal functioning, self-reliance, and participation of people with disabilities (for e.g., spinal cord injuries, stroke) holistically in their communities and environments of choice. This is attained through enhancing a sense of personal control by helping them identify the needs they have, the goals they seek to achieve, resources at their disposal, and by learning effective self-management skills.