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Dr.Vasuki Mathivanan PhD is an accomplished Psychologist with over two decades of experience in mental health. She has extensive experience in Training, Teaching, Counselling and Clinical Supervision.

Upon completion of her PhD from the University of Madras, she started her career as a freelance Psychologist in Chennai when the field of mental health was in its nascent stage. To channelize and consolidate her vast experience and render a noble service to society, she established “Explore Counselling” (https://Explorecounselling.com), an organization with the committed motto of “Hopeless to Hopeful”.

Being the First RISEUP Certified Supervisor and principal Assessor in India, She is approved by Dr. Philip Armstrong,( Founder of RISEUP Supervisor training , Australia) to conduct “RISEUP Supervisor training programs” ,in India exclusively for Mental Health Professionals, Managers and Team leaders of Corporates.She is an Employee Assistance Consultant (EAP) for organizations and regularly conducts training and workshops exclusively for Mental Health Professionals, Managers and Team leaders of organizations. She has also conducted workshops and seminars on various topics in the UK, Malaysia, Australia, DOHA and Sri Lanka. Having interacted with multidimensional stakeholders in the field of Mental Health for over two decades, she felt a compelling need to support and monitor mental health professionals to hone their skills so that they deliver effective therapy to their clients. This need, along with her association with international experts in the field of counselling and psychology gave birth to the establishment of the “Indian Academy of Professional Supervisors(IAPS) .” and she is the Founder/President of IAPS.

Our Team

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Dr. Veena comes to us with a holistic background. She has been a practicing Counseling Psychologist for over 10 years. She is a trained Homeopath and she incorporates her extensive clinical knowledge in Psychotherapy practice. Veena earned her M.Sc. in Psychology, M.Sc. in Counseling& Psychotherapy and is currently pursuing her M.Sc. Counseling and Family Therapy program.  She has been associated as an Assistant Professor of Psychology for Physiotherapy students in BIHER and Post graduate students in Tamil Nadu Open University for the past 7 years.

She has been working in a corporate as Wellness Consultant for the past 3 years and has the experience of conducting various workshops and EAP sessions for Corporate like Scope e-knowledge, SPI Global and S2S HR Forum.

She completed her course on Professional Supervision from IAPS (Indian Academy of Professional Supervisors) .

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Sayee Bhuvaneswari is an Entrepreneur, Life Coach and a Counselling Psychologist . She stepped into entrepreneurship world after almost 20 years of association with Big Corporates like Hitachi, HCL as part of their Senior Management establishing new operations and managing their regional sales and operations in  Middle East, Asia and India. She also worked as Chief Operating Officer for an Asian Start up in India. She is a founder of Meraki Consulting which mentor various start-ups on their Go to market strategies. With her quest to understand human minds and give back to society, she started Dheemahi Mind Matters through which she provides Life Coaching , Wellness Coaching, Counselling Services ,Workshop Facilitations etc. covering Corporates ,Institutions and Individuals. She is a Practitioner of Reality Therapy, HypnoTherapy and NLP.  She is a motivational speaker in many forums .

She is an Engineer with Masters in Management and Psychology .She is also a PhD Research Scholar .

Uma Balachandran
Counselling psychologist/art therapist

Her passion, training and innate curiosity led her to where she is today – a designer, an artist, psychologist, art therapist and a Vipassana meditator. She uses her knowledge and experience of art & psychology to practice Art Therapy. Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy to enable clients to transfer emotions onto any art form thereby aiding the process of healing. Mindfulness is one of the other tools she uses in her sessions to create awareness of the mind and body & for learning to cope. Her therapeutic practice includes Art Therapy, Talk Therapy and Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) along with mindfulness exercises.She has worked with clientele from diverse backgrounds and age groups (in the range of 10 to 40years) in one on one and couple counseling sessions since 2019. She has facilitated interactive sessions with school teachers on Communicative Skills and Motivation. Conducted Art Therapy sessions on targeted issues of self esteem, communication, anxiety/fear, depression, building resilience. Worked with school students on building self awareness through Art Therapy and delivered Instructor led workshops on Art Therapy for Post Graduate students of Psychology.She has done her Master’s in counselling psychology and she is a certified Art therapist.