Psychoanalytic Practice & Research

Expressive arts therapy

Expressive Arts Therapy uses art forms such as drawing, movement, music, drama, storytelling and writing to support self-expression, reflection and growth. The focus is on the process, not on skill or the finished piece, so no artistic experience is needed.

Clinical and pre-clinical training

With the Psychoanalytic Therapy and Research Centre (PTRC) in Mumbai, I completed a Psychoanalytic Infant Observation and a Young Child Observation, both in the Tavistock tradition. In this method an observer visits the same family each week over a long period, writes up notes, and brings them to a small seminar. The observation teaches an analyst how emotional life takes shape in the early years, within a family.

I also completed PTRC’s Pre-Clinical Training Program in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, which covered developmental theory, unconscious processes in childhood and adolescence, and the foundations of psychoanalytic clinical work.

I hold a Post Graduate Diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy (ExAT) from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.

For a year I attended P-HOLE, a seminar series given over to critical and liberatory approaches to psychoanalysis. It is a collective of clinicians, scholars and artists committed to rigorous study, and to a psychoanalytic practice that is non-discriminatory and community-oriented. A good part of my theoretical grounding comes from that year.

More about my background.

Working with me

I do not give advice or generic solutions. I help you arrive at your own way of dealing with the challenges you might be facing. If speaking is difficult, I would also invite you to write or make art instead.

The first consultation is free, takes place online, and runs between thirty and fifty minutes.