ABOUT ME
I came to this work during a difficult time, when nothing I'd tried before was working anymore. Life confronted me directly.
What followed was a kind of unravelling.
Through therapy and contemplative practice, I found a way to be with it rather than run from it. That journey, through intergenerational pain, cultural dislocation, and the slow recovery of my own voice, is not behind me. It is what I bring into the room.
I am a UKCP registered psychotherapist. I trained at Regent's University London and have worked across NHS services, specialist eating disorder settings, and charitable organisations.
My work is trauma-sensitive and informed by neuroscience. I find that understanding how the nervous system holds experience opens something in the work that talking alone cannot always reach. My somatic work is particularly influenced by Eugene Gendlin and Judith Blackstone, whose understanding of the body as a source of knowing runs through everything I do.
Before becoming a therapist I worked as an economist in India, Iceland, and Malawi - experiences that are still very much present in how I sit with people.
I was born in India, and now live in Cheltenham with my daughter and partner. I work in English and Hindi.
THINKERS WHO SHAPE MY WORK
Carl Jung
The unconscious, Self, individuation, the shadow
Irvin Yalom
Existential questions,
the therapeutic relationship
James Hollis
Midlife, meaning,
the unlived life
Buddhist contemplation
Presence, impermanence, the body as teacher
TRAINING & REGISTRATION
Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy
Regent's University, London (UKCP Regd.)
Mindfulness & Meditation Teacher Training
Zenways, London
Clinical Supervision
Headstrong Counselling, UK
SUPERVISION
Alongside my client work, I supervise trainee and qualified practitioners individually and in groups. I bring the same depth approach to supervision as I do to therapy, with particular attention to multicultural practice and to the spiritual or transpersonal dimensions of the work when they're relevant.