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Meet the Team

Founder | Director
Anshuma Kshetrapal
Psychotherapist | Drama and Movement Therapist
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Anshuma Kshetrapal is a practising psychotherapist and a Drama and Movement Therapist specialising in individual and couples therapy. She works with adults-clients navigating anxiety, trauma, relational difficulties, grief, and life transitions. Her practice integrates depth-oriented psychotherapy with embodied and arts-based approaches, offering a grounded and culturally responsive space for therapeutic work.
Besides being the founder of the collaborative group practice CoGC, Anshuma is the current President and a Founding Board Member of the Indian Association of Dance Movement Therapy (IADMT) [link], and the current President and Founding Board Member of Drama Therapy India (DTI) [link]. She is also the Co-Founder of The Arts Therapists Co-Lab (TATC) [link], an interdisciplinary initiative that brings creative arts therapists together for capacity building, workshops, and national-level learning spaces.
Her training in Drama and Movement Therapy took place in the United Kingdom, following which she returned to India to build a practice rooted in local contexts and culturally grounded therapeutic frameworks. Alongside her clinical work, she has over a decade of teaching experience and has taught across several institutions, including St. Xavier’s College Mumbai, TISS, CMTAI, IMHA, and other programmes across the country.
Her current research explores decolonisation, pedagogy, and embodied forms of therapeutic learning, reflecting her commitment to strengthening ethical, accessible, and socially responsive mental-health ecosystems in India.

Head of Internships | Associate Psychotherapist
Lakshita Malhotra
Dance Movement Therapy Practitioner
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Lakshita (She/Her) is a psychodynamic psychotherapist, dance movement therapy practitioner, and a member of the American Psychological Association. Her work integrates psychoanalytic thought, body-based approaches, and relational practice. She works with adults, adolescents, and couples, with a particular focus on questions of gender, sexuality, identity, and politics as they shape both individual lives and collective experience.
Her practice engages with individuals and communities navigating displacement, diaspora, and the everyday anxieties of contemporary urban life. She is especially interested in the intersections of childhood trauma, gendered belonging, and cultural memory, and how these shape psychic life across generations.
Lakshita is experienced in working with anxiety, mood and dissociative disorders, depression, and borderline personality disorder. As a queer-affirmative practitioner, she offers a safe and reflective space for clients to engage with the complexities of self, relationship, and social context.

Associate Psychotherapist
Tarini Anchan
Dance Movement Psychotherapist
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Tarini Anchan is a person-centric integrative Dance Movement Psychotherapist, holding a master’s degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy from the UK (MA DMP). She offers both online, and in-person sessions in Delhi. Tarini weaves together a trauma-informed, body-based, and creative methodology; employing movement, music, art making, and breathwork, to help clients access and express deeper emotions that may evade verbal articulation. She deeply values tailoring the therapeutic process to each individual, fostering safe, contained environments that invite clients to express authentically, and release gently, all while honoring the unique rhythm of their personal healing journey.
She has extensive experience supporting individuals across a broad spectrum of needs, including emotional distress, trauma, neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and Dementia, and childhood behavioral challenges. She has also worked with people with physical disabilities, individuals on the autism spectrum, mothers and their infants (aged 3-18 months), and those in palliative care settings.

Associate Psychotherapist
Sukh Kaur
Existential Psychotherapist
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Sukh (They/Her) is blending six years of Visual Arts expertise with an MSc in Counseling Psychology to offer a creative and compassionate therapeutic approach. Grounded in existential-humanistic principles, their work focuses on Queer Affirmative Counseling and neurodivergence-aware practices. Sukh is deeply committed to supporting adults of all ages, particularly Queer and Neurodivergent individuals, drawing from lived experiences, Queer activism, and ongoing QACP supervision. They advocate for gentle accountability and embracing neurodivergence rather than conforming to neurotypical norms. Passionate about building inclusive communities, Sukh facilitates spaces where people feel supported and belonged. They lead a Queer Support Group exploring themes of safety, comfort, and belonging within Queer lives. Outside therapy, Sukh creates mental health content in Punjabi, fostering awareness and dialogue. Guided by creativity and a drive to challenge discrimination, Sukh works toward a more inclusive, healing world.

Associate Psychotherapist
Shirine Marian T.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
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Shirine is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and community counsellor who is deeply committed to supporting people through their emotional and psychological journeys. She has trained extensively in psychoanalysis, completing fellowships at the Contemporary Freudian Society in Washington DC and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Her approach brings together psychoanalytic insight with trauma-informed psychosocial care, creating a safe and reflective space for healing.
With an MA and M.Phil. in Psychology equips her to work with individuals, couples, and families facing a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma, dissociation, and relationship challenges. She pays close attention to relational patterns, unconscious processes, and unspoken conflicts that shape our experiences, helping clients find new ways of understanding and relating to themselves and others.
Shirine is also a queer-affirmative and caste-informed practitioner,.

Associate Psychotherapist
Noopur Jain
Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
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Noopur is a psychodynamic psychotherapist who wishes to create a warm, open, collaborative space for her clients, so that she may help them through their struggles and emotions. Her clinic is a caste-sensitive, queer-affirmative, and neurodivergent-friendly space where she aims to make mental healthcare more accessible and attuned to the needs of marginalized sections of Indian society.
She holds a Master's degree in Psychology with a specialization in Psychosocial Clinical Studies from Ambedkar University, Delhi. She has experience workingwith depression, self-harm, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship issues, and concerns around parent-child relationships.
Her aim with every client is to create a supportive and holding therapeutic relationship that empowers the client to manage current crises but also allows the client to face future challenges with confidence.

Associate Psychotherapist
Tanisha Kohli
Dance Movement Therapist
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Tanisha Kohli is a Registered Dance Movement Therapist with ADMP UK. She holds a Master’s Degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy from Goldsmiths University of London and is pursuing an MSc in Counseling and Family Therapy.
Her professional experience includes working with the NHS in forensic adult mental health, educational settings with neurotypical and neurodiverse children, and various community organizations.
Tanisha conducts both individual and group sessions that use movement as a primary therapeutic tool. She works closely with professionals across disciplines to tailor approaches for diverse client needs. Her therapeutic framework integrates movement-based interventions that enable clients to process emotions and develop better body awareness, creating unique pathways for self-expression and personal growth.

Associate Psychotherapist
Nishi Joshi
Dance Movement Psychotherapist | Vice President and Executive Board Member of IADMT
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(Online Only)
Nishi Joshi is a Regd. Psychotherapist, Educator, and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Specialist, with an in-depth experience in creating inclusive and healing therapeutic spaces. Her practice is rooted in Body-Based and Movement Psychotherapy, combining mental health care with embodied awareness, creative expression, and trauma-informed support.
Nishi holds a BA in Psychology from Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi and an MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her therapeutic lens is grounded in attachment theory, developmental psychology, and psychodynamic principles, while being queer-affirmative, neurodivergence-affirming, and intersectional in approach.
She works with adults navigating trauma, anxiety, clinical depression, mood-related concerns, and challenges in relationships or identity. At the heart of her work is a deep commitment to mental health access, body-based healing, and community care.

Associate Psychotherapist
Supriya Puri
Dance Movement Therapy Facilitator
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(Online Only)
Supriya Puri is Trauma focused somatic Therapist, coach & educator. She has expertise in working with survivors of complex PTSD / Childhood trauma. Her approach to recovery is relational, attachment focused & body oriented.
She is an integrative psychotherapist, weaving together a multidisciplinary approach which includes Somatic experiencing, Relational Psychotherapy, integral somatic psychology; Internal family systems (IFS), intergenerational trauma & deep brain reorienting (DBR).
Supriya currently maintains a private practice where she offers depth-oriented psychotherapy & trauma focused healing in a 1:1 setting.

Associate Psychotherapist
Sukriti Dua
Dance Movement Therapy Facilitator
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(Online Only)
Sukriti is a trauma-informed psychologist and a dance/movement therapy facilitator. Having done her post graduation in Clinical Psychology, she has also completed certifications in Dance/Movement Therapy (CMTAI) and Trauma Informed Care (TISS). Having an experience of 8.5 years, she has worked with children and adolescents of various needs via schools, NGOs and intervention centers through counseling and Dance/Movement Therapy. She currently has her own private practice through- Mentally Yours, and also offers consultancy at COGC, catering to individuals across the ages: from adolescents to adults and couples. The work from mind-body practices, relational and trauma approaches is at the centre of her therapeutic framework, which is eclectic and queer friendly.
She is also the Course Co-Director cum faculty for CMTAI’s flagship DMT program, holding a deep interest in group work. Along with teaching on various programs in the country, her work is extended to conducting workshops and trainings with schools, universities and corporates.

Associate Psychotherapist
Viraj Sehgal
Clinical Psychologist
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Viraj is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a RCI licensed Clinical Psychologist (A) with over 8 years of experience in the field of mental health. As a psychologist, he has worked at various organisations like O.P. Jindal University, Center for Equity Studies, Sambandh Health foundation and Salaam Baalak Trust. He has a keen interest in looking at the political, cultural and critical dimensions of mental health. His private practice is based in Delhi where he offers sessions online as well as offline in both English and Hindi.

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