My Practice
My practice is as diverse as the people I work with. No one thing works all the time for anyone, so I try to work with a mix of approaches, ways of being, doing, thinking and expressing. I am constantly learning new things and training in new mediums. I am comfortable speaking English, Tamil and Hindi. I am not a clinician, a clinical psychologist, or psychiatrist. My work is non-clinical and uses a different set of approaches and training.
I am committed to holding the space that the person in front of me needs, and welcoming everything you bring to the table. Nothing is unwelcome, judged or labelled. My practice is ethically informed by confidentiality, compassion and justice. My process takes cognisance of structural power and the dynamics of exclusion. Koodu is a queer-affirmative, non-pathologising space. If you feel called, please get in touch!
Narrative Therapy
When a problem takes over the whole story of your life, it becomes hard to see anything else. Narrative therapy works through questions, and exploration, helping you frame your problems so the other stories in your life become visible again. You are the expert of your life, and no one else. My work is to support you in lookin, navigating and exploring the terrain of your life.
The Sociological Lens
Who we are doesn’t exist in isolation. We are shaped by the families we came from, the cultures that formed us, the systems and structures that surround and condition us. Without that context, who we are doesn’t quite make sense. As a sociologist and cultural studies scholar, I always hold the individual and the collective together because a relationship with ourselves, in my practice, includes a relationship with the worlds that made you.
Somatic Awareness
The body holds everything we have lived; our joys, our grief, our fears, our protective patterns. Working only through language may not reach the things we most deeply feel. Somatic awareness brings us back to our bodies. Noticing what is held onto, what shifts, what opens and learning to listen to the laguage of our bodies is a vital part of my work.
Creative Practice
Art, music, clay, movement, writing and play offer lateral, nonverbal, nonlinear ways of knowing ourselves that language alone can’t reach. Creative practice accesses parts of ourselves that are beyond words and language. It is also how we reconnect with joy; often the first thing to go when life gets hard, and something we need to restore.