I am an expressive arts therapy practitioner with a psychoanalytic orientation. I work online, from Mumbai, with people in India and elsewhere.
Training
- Post Graduate Diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy (ExAT), St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.
- Doctoral researcher in psychoanalysis at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies, Dublin. My research concerns Lacanian psychoanalysis and creative arts therapies.
- Pre-clinical training with the Psychoanalytic Therapy and Research Centre, Mumbai, in the Tavistock tradition: a Psychoanalytic Infant Observation, a Young Child Observation, and Clinical and Work Discussion seminars.
Writing
Before any of that I was a writer, and I still am. My story collection Principles of Prediction is published by Westland Books in India. My stories have appeared in Granta, Adda, Internazionale and Scroll.in.
I was a regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Asia in 2012 and again in 2017. I held a writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and received American Short Fiction’s Stars at Night award in 2017. I hold a BFA in Film from New York University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the New Writers Project and an MA in Gender Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.
The writing is collected on the writing page, and reviews and interviews on the media page.
Curious about working together? The first consultation is free. It’s an opportunity to talk about what you’re looking for, ask any questions you may have, and get a sense of whether this way of working feels right for you.