Couch & Beyond
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE...
There is always something you can do
to make yourself get better, feel better.
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about
COUCH & BEYOND
Couch & Beyond is born out of deep conviction
to bridge gap between ‘health’ and ‘illness’
and to help facilitate an attitude
of self care and personal growth when thinking mental health.
It is a unique therapeutic space
that weaves together 'clinical' and 'creative' dialogues for all,
bringing together concerns of health and illness;
clinical interventions and proactive / support initiatives;
as part of one fabric and under one entity - 'Couch & Beyond'
because....mental health concerns us all.
Be it those suffering from mental anguish,
emotional distress, psychological dysfunction or those grappling
with ordinary yet challenging life transitions,
Couch & Beyond recognises need of different psychological states.
Hence, it offers ‘couch work' i.e. long term intensive psychoanalysis
and psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as therapeutic space for
reflective engagements, proactive dialoguing and support work.
Concerns of mental health must not come to us only as an afterthought.
Start now...wherever you are...
about MYSELF...
By training, I am a certified psychoanalyst and it is this way
of relating, experiencing and understanding human condition,
that I weave into every intervention and initiative at Couch & Beyond.
Whether it is long term or time bound engagement;
whether it is individual, couple, or group work,
it has its root in psychoanalytic insights.
As an individual, I draw heavily from life and its many experiences.
When not working, I could be found
reading, writing, sketching or being with nature.
Basking in one of these regenerative spaces
help me deepen the connect within and beyond,
silence being a haven of its own kind!
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Integrity and faith are integral to what I offer,
and therapy feels sacred
as a process of healing and transformation.
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- DIVYA
Indian Psychoanalytic Society, India
International Psychoanalytical Association, UK
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my APPROACH
Often,
when one says 'mental health',
it is heard and understood as 'mental illness.'
For me, 'mental health' refers to our psychological capacity for
experiencing, embodying, and embracing ourselves,
including that what is aching, ailing, alienated and alienating within.
My approach is simple, sensitive
and oriented towards individual as a whole,
with focus on mobilising psychic growth
and developing emotional capacity within.
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I believe symptom or life crisis is often an entry point,
an alarm, to get us to 'begin' thinking health.
It is not our whole story.
Services
All interventions and initiatives are rooted in psychoanalytic insights,
with the focus on facilitating health, healing and working through
what feels disturbing and distressing.
Clinical Interventions
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Psychoanalysis
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Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Proactive Initiative
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For Parents-to-be...
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For Young Children...
Support Initiative​
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Grieving the loss
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Living with Terminal Illness
Collaborate
Towards fostering sensitive and responsive
community of mental health professionals and practices...
Supervision
Internship
Volunteering
THE PSYCHIC CANVAS
Here comes for you
a melange of human experiences
from near and far,
experiences both lived and un-lived,
from private chambers of our being
to those that have long been alive, heard and seen,
personal and political and also those lost in between.
It all comes to you in shades of black, blue, yellow,
pink, purple, white, orange, red and green
creating its own...breathing its own...
discovering its own...
Art Speaks
Words Contain
Silence Holds
thank you
for
thinking 'health'...
It is never too late or too early
to begin thinking health!
