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Therapist/Facilitators

Shravanthi Venkatesh

Founder / Therapist / Facilitator

Shravanthi Venkatesh

Founder / Therapist / Facilitator

Shravanthi is a Bengaluru based Psychotherapist, Dramatherapist, and Playback Theatre Artist. She has been a mental health practitioner for over 8 years. She specializes in working with the Self, identity, trauma, grief & loss, and shame through the lens of intersectionality, feminism, and social & restorative justice.

She has worked in schools, hospitals, acute psychiatric wards, rehabilitation centres, and half-way homes with a variety of populations.

Her approach to mental health is person-centred, and queer-affirmative.

She now facilitates individual therapy, couples therapy, workshops, webinars, internships and supervision that is experiential, reflective, somatic, and creative.

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Aanchal Munoth

Therapist / Facilitator

Aanchal Munoth

Therapist / Facilitator

Aanchal Munoth is a counselling psychotherapist based in Hyderabad, India. She has over 1.5 years of experience. Her main aim within therapy is to create a safe and non - judgmental space. She works towards making clients feel empowered with more compassion and acceptance.

She uses an eclectic and client-centered approach. Her approach is influenced by elements of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Transactional Analysis and supported by other psycho-therapeutic schools of thought. According to her, therapy is a journey to discover one’s authentic self, therefore making this a collaborative process involving empathy, trust, safety, transparency, mutual respect & equality.

She facilitates therapy in Hindi and English.

She enjoys being a facilitator for groups in terms of training and workshops as well as leading compassion circles where growth-oriented people come together to dialogue and engage in conversations. She’s also inclined towards the field of research and has published two papers in reputed journals.

On days when she isn’t working, you can find her either wandering on a snow – capped mountain or completely tucked and snuggled in my bed. She also indulges herself in baking, exploring food & movie-ing her way through life with her favourite music.

Karishma Pavaskar

Therapist / Facilitator

Karishma Pavaskar

Therapist / Facilitator

Karishma Pavaskar is an Experiential Therapy Enthusiast and forms her basis in Psychology and mediums in Creative Arts. She is an Expressive Arts Therapy (EXAT) Practitioner from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and has done her Master's in Clinical Psycho-Oncologist from Christ University, Bangalore.

She has proficient experience in working with niche client groups including cancer patients and their caregivers, children with special needs and geriatrics as well as corporates the general population. She has catered to various psychological, social, emotional and physical issues of 50+ children across organizations such as Evoluer Solutions, IRA Foundation and Yash Charitable Trust. She has worked at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai and Karunashraya Hospice Care, Bangalore as a Trainee Psycho-Oncologist. In addition to this, she has worked at Compassionate Clowns and Whaterr Solutions Bangalore as a facilitator, designing and conducting various workshops.

She has conducted workshops for colleges and universities in Mumbai and Bangalore using her expertise in different modalities like drama, music, art and movement therapy. She has also conducted trainee programs at Syngene International, Bangalore with a 75+ participants, conducted workshops for psychologists, admin staff and other interns on emotional regulation using expressive art therapy at Karunashraya Hospice Care.

She can facilitate spaces in Hindi, Marathi, Konkani and English.

Apart from being a facilitator, she dons the roles of an individual counselor, researcher and a professional theater/movement artist. Her research extensively lies around improving the quality of life of cancer caregivers through EXAT techniques.

Karishma has worked under and continues to be inspired by Mrs Devika Mehta Kadam (Clinical Psychologist, dance and movement therapist, PhD scholar) whose work widely merges traditional counselling with creative arts.

Karishma strongly believes that the arts speak when words fall short and therefore her work aims at creating unconventional paths, where expressive arts is not just a healing technique but a step towards healthy living. Her approach is person-centered and provides space for exploration and expression.

Facilitators

Anchitha Rao

Facilitator

Anchitha Rao

Facilitator

Anchitha (she/her) is a Bangalore-based counselling psychologist. She has a Master's in Counselling Psychology with a specialization in trauma-informed care. She has over 3 years of experience working as a mental health practitioner. She is fluent in English and Kannada.

Her work is drawn from person-centered, body-based mindfulness approaches. She is passionately committed to understanding and exploring human nature with curiosity and compassion. She holds strong values of social justice, inclusivity, and connection in her work.

She is inclined to facilitate workshops around attachment, relationships, trauma, mindfulness, and self-compassion to educate, bring awareness and empower individuals.

When she is not musing about psychology and humans, she is into gardening, art, and open mics.

Kruthi Nagaraja

Facilitator

Kruthi Nagaraja

Facilitator

Kruthi Nagaraja is currently completing her Masters in Clinical Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London with a focus in child and adolescent mental health. Her interest in the field grew during her undergraduate years at Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts, during which she worked with a number of organizations in clinical, educational and alternative therapeutic settings. Over the years, she has found herself drawn to queer-affirmative mental health, trauma-focused healing and caste-inclusive therapy. She has worked in crisis intervention and suicide prevention hotlines as a first responder, with children with Autism/ learning and developmental disorders and conducted group interventions for the Queer community.

She believes in creating spaces of growth that are inclusive and accessible which led her to Svaha Space. At Svaha, Kruthi previously worked as an intern in co-facilitating a creative art group for at-risk children, social media curation and therapeutic storytelling.

Kruthi is inclined towards facilitating workshops for and about the LGBTQ+ community, to build awareness and create safe spaces while learning and growing as a mental health professional.

On a nice, sunny day, when she’s not pondering about the workings of the world, you can find her reading about very random obscure topics or watching some cute romantic tv show!

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Ajay Appaden

Mental Health Advocate/ Tech Wizard

Ajay Appaden

Mental Health Advocate/ Tech Wizard

Ajay is an amateur endurance athlete who is very passionate about mental health awareness, scientific skepticism and human rights. Their experience as an ultamarathoner and randonneur has taught them that absolutely everything in life boils down to the the adage, 'one step at a time', regardless of how small or big the task/challenge/step.

To pay the bills they have worked in a number of industries including media publishing, fintech and web app development.

They are an avid fan of anything related to technology with a penchant for astronomy, cosmology and environmentalism.

The perspective gained through their own struggles with mental health issues, in addition to their other experiences has pushed them to want to "do the next right thing", in the words of Ana from the movie Frozen 2. Their life philosophy can be summarised in the spirit of Ubuntu: ' I am who I am because of who we are'. Their vision is to help make Svāhā Space a fledgling support community for all things mental health.

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