"I have no nationality. My country is my shoes." -Alejandro Jodorowsky
About Me:
I was born in India and spent many formative years in Germany. Having grown up between continents and cultures, my search has always been to integrate worlds - so the rifts within me, too, may be healed. This has taken me on a continual learning path which spans from neuroscience to art, eastern spirituality to western psychotherapy, ancient ritualistic tradition to modern clinical practice.
I believe that psychological health confers the ability to hold our contradictions and multitudes in harmony. I draw on the many resources within me to offer my clients a creative, lively approach to support their healing and thus, integrate the worlds within them.
Privately, I can typically be found roaming the forests of Brandenburg with my dog and a sketchbook.
Education:
Since 2017: ongoing training in Continuum Movement
2019: licensed as a Hakomi practitioner (mindfulness based body psychotherapy)
2016: licensed as ‘Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie’
2012: MA Art Therapy (Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee)
2008: Certificate in ‘Arts become Therapy’ (WCCL, Pune)
1996-2015: 1000+ hrs of diverse Yoga Teacher Trainings (IYF, 3HO, IYN)
1998: MSc Nutrition, Brain & Behaviour (Roehampton Institute London)
Work Experience:
2013-present: private & clinical therapeutic practice
2010-2011: art therapy project for HIV/ AIDS patients in Potsdam
2009-2012: art therapy internships at psychosomatic and psychiatric clinics in and around Berlin
2009-present: teaching Yoga in groups and 1:1
2008: interdisciplinary Yoga and Art Therapy research project for special needs children in Pondicherry, India
2001-2011: Freelance Photography & Graphic Design practice in India and Germany