Mental health must be accessible to all — and so must different professionals. Therapy for individuals has a limited reach, and can be monetarily difficult for the economically underprivileged. Alongside individual consultation, Suchitra’s work extends into manifold preventive work, set out in her .
Well-being is the alignment with your own life’s design.
In thought, emotion, and action. Therapy helps you approach it, and discover it, with love and without fear.
Known by the life in front of her, not by a single method.
- M.A. Psychology
- MSMHA licensed
- APARA
- Since 2002
Suchitra Inamdar is equipped with a Master’s in Psychology, further therapy qualifications, MSMHA licensing, and long community and academic work through her organisation, APARA — the Anthroposophic Psychology and Research Association.
Emerging from 24+ years of experience, she uses a tailored eclectic approach with every client.
Therapy style is for the client. The client is not for validating the effectiveness of a therapy style. Only that was ever right, that provided relief and perspective to a client.
Her approach is steeped in biography work. It prioritises the age, the developmental stage, and the soul journey a client is in while seeking therapy.
Anxiety, loneliness, or a relationship issue will manifest in distinctly different ways in a 20, 35, or 50-year-old client, and needs to be illuminated with insights that support the quest of that age and stage.
Every issue needs a body–mind–soul–intellect alignment. Here, therapy aims to walk a person toward that balance.
- Body
- Mind
- Soul
- Intellect
A trusted partner in well-being, and in emotional resilience.
The expertise of curative work transfers into preventive work. Practised preventive work, in turn, gives a perceptive quality to the curative. For any professional, the chance to witness the entire spectrum of beneficiaries carries immense value.
Mission
Psychotherapy, as a professional part of health services, took root in the West. It has come to hold self-development, health, and philosophy together. The ethics of confidentiality, of setting boundaries, of client-focused work, and of beneficence have emerged from that practice across the globe. Psychotherapy still needs to be adapted, and made real, for every culture.
Suchitra’s practice, matured through decades of lived experience in Indian society, keeps the client’s personal context of growth intact.
Confidentiality, boundaries, a client at the centre, and beneficence. These are the ethics the work inherits — and keeps.
Indians, living in India or outside it, are richly embedded in family, society, and culture. That embeddedness brings fulfilment and joy. Besides symptom relief, personal development, and actualisation, therapy has to bring safety and belonging — with family and with society — into the light, and nurture them.
Suchitra brings a robust scientific approach, combined with socio-cultural rootedness.
In India, people seek help, advice, and treatment from the professionals they trust. Suchitra’s practice — highly recommended by her past and existing clients, and by co-professionals, for over two decades — speaks for itself.
24+Years of practice
700+Documented cases
3Generations served
My approach
Case intake
This is the best space for the therapist to know you, your life, and your issues. The path of therapy is chalked out, and the frequency and duration of sessions are suggested.
Therapy
Suchitra uses different modalities to treat thought distortions, and to help with emotional and behavioural regulation and social integration. Besides talk therapy, she uses exercises in art, language, movement, role play, and more — woven into the methods so the client can see more clearly.
Practice
Therapy only works when newer and more effective disciplines of thinking, feeling, and willing are practised and internalised. Homework — journaling questions, or exercises to practise — is given so that therapy does not remain limited to the therapist’s cabin.
Tapering
The focus of therapy is to create independence and volition in the client. Frequency can be reduced as the therapist and the client both observe improvement, and autonomy in practising effective ways of functioning.
Follow-up
Problems will exist as long as life exists. The goal of therapy is to make the client resourceful in their own environment. Once that happens, weaning off from therapy is required. Follow-up sessions support that tapering — a safety net while they learn to walk this path on their own.
Enhanced Well-being
A position in the therapy process is reached where there is better perspective, more agency experienced, and good days are more frequent than bad days. Problems are a part and parcel of life itself. When a person is at a stage of well-being, they find themselves better equipped to handle life with more confidence than before.
From the shelf
Suchitra is an avid reader. Short excerpts and comments on her latest reads live on her Substack — a line from the book, and what it stirred.
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Why work with Suchitra
- Licensed by the MSMHA
- A director of APARA
- Senior Wellness Instructor, IIT Bombay
These are her ways of sharing the knowledge and expertise received from her profession with society at large. When you choose to work with Suchitra, you stand to gain from her relentless training, from an ever-evolving personality, and from her integrity as a human being.
Step toward well-being
Direct contact
Suchitra keeps in direct contact with all her clients. A first message reaches her, and she answers it herself.
Online, or in the room
Sessions are conducted both online and offline, depending on what you prefer and on what is appropriate for you.
An independent circle
When it will serve you better, she connects with like-minded professionals — psychiatrists, doctors, clinical psychologists, social workers, legal aid, educators. They are independent. They do not owe her, and they receive no benefit from her other than goodwill and a mutual recognition of good work.