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Our Practitioners

Named humans, with lived understanding.

Our practitioners, therapists and psychiatrists alike, are trained clinicians who bring both clinical expertise and a deep understanding of the Indian experience, whether you're in India or living abroad. You won't have to begin by explaining the context that has shaped your life.

Therapists
Ritika Kakde Bangalore, India

Ritika Kakde

She / Her

Anxiety · Depression · Burnout · Life Transitions

Ritika works with the everyday weight of anxiety, low mood, and burnout, in plain language and without judgement. She is especially good with people in the middle of a big life transition.

Nuzhat Basheer Dubai, UAE

Nuzhat Basheer

She / Her

Women's Identity · Diaspora · Relationship Concerns

Nuzhat practises from Dubai and understands the realities of living between cultures. She holds relationship concerns and questions of identity with warmth, and offers appointments at times that work across time zones.

Speaks: English, Hindi, Tamil

Aparupa Dasgupta

She / Her

Anxiety · Low mood · Persistent stress · Queer-affirmative

Aparupa is a clinical psychologist in Kolkata, registered with the Rehabilitation Council of India. She works with anxiety, low mood and persistent stress, and her clinical interest is how experiences of exclusion and discrimination slowly become internalised.

Trisha Jain

Trisha Jain

She / Her

Self-worth · Boundaries · Overthinking · People-pleasing

Trisha works with young adults on anxiety, overwhelming emotions, motivation and boundaries. She is direct, asks questions that get you closer to what you actually feel, and challenges your patterns gently.

Speaks: English, Hindi
Vaishnavi Mellacheruvu

Vaishnavi Mellacheruvu

She / Her

Relationships · Self-esteem · Body image · Family boundaries

Vaishnavi works with anxiety, overthinking, self-esteem, loneliness, and relationship and family difficulties. Her work is collaborative, built on the link between thoughts, feelings, behaviour and life experience.

Speaks: English, Hindi, Telugu
Prathiksha Venkateswaran

Prathiksha Venkateswaran

She / They

Trauma · Queer Identity · Gender & Sexuality · Relationships

Prathiksha works with adults navigating trauma, attachment patterns, and the complexities of neurodivergence and queer identity. Her approach is relational and grounded in an intersectional, feminist-socialist framework.

If nobody here feels right

You do not have to work it out alone.

Availability changes, and the right fit matters more than the soonest slot. Tell us what you are looking for and we will point you to whoever fits, here or elsewhere. If you are in crisis right now, Tele-MANAS is on 14416 or 1-800-89-14416, 24×7 across India.

Fenweh: a therapist leaning in with an open hand while a client speaks, illustrating active listening and validation
Psychiatrists

Our team includes therapists, associate therapists and psychiatrists, including Dr. Bhaskar Das. We work collaboratively because therapy and psychiatry often work best together. Explore our practitioners to find someone whose approach, experience and fees feel right for you. Looking for a particular language? Browse practitioners by language.

What they share

The standard every Fenweh practitioner upholds.

Affirmative by default

Your identity is held as a gift, never a problem to fix.

Trauma-informed

Gentle, paced, and centred on your safety and choice.

Culturally fluent

No translating your family from scratch, every session.

Lived experience

Part of the diaspora and the LGBTQIA+ community themselves.

Choosing your practitioner

Take your time, and choose the person yourself.

Every practitioner profile includes their areas of focus, therapeutic approach, languages, fees and live availability. Take your time exploring the team and book with the person who feels like the right fit. If you are unsure, Need help choosing? can help guide you. And if the fit is not right, changing practitioners is always okay.

Fenweh: a client and therapist sorting cards into a shared plan, illustrating collaborative goal setting
How we choose

Why the bar is where it is.

Every therapist here is qualified. That is the floor, not the standard. What we look for beyond it is harder to certify and matters more.

Trained, and still training

A recognised qualification in clinical or counselling psychology, plus current professional development. Nobody here is coasting on a degree from a decade ago.

Supervised, always

Regular clinical supervision is a condition of practising with us, not an optional extra. Your therapist has someone thinking alongside them.

Fluent in your world

Understanding what a joint family actually costs, or why coming out is a calculation rather than an event, is not something a syllabus teaches.

Fenweh: people of many bodies and ages fitting large puzzle pieces into a circle, illustrating community and belonging
What we owe you

Things you should be able to take for granted.

  • You will never be asked to explain why your family is the way it is before you can talk about how it affects you.
  • Your identity will not be treated as the presenting problem.
  • If your therapist is not the right fit, changing is a normal request and we will not make it awkward.
  • What you say stays between you and your therapist, with the narrow legal exceptions we set out plainly before you start.
Questions about the team

Choosing who you talk to.

You choose. Every practitioner profile includes their areas of focus, therapeutic approach, languages, fees and live availability, so you can take your time and decide who feels right for you. If you would like some guidance, Need help choosing? can help, but the decision is always yours.
You can switch to another practitioner from the roster, no awkwardness. Fit is not a verdict on you or on them, and a mismatch caught early saves months.
Sessions run in English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi and Urdu, depending on the therapist.
In practice, and we screen for it. Affirmative means your identity is not something to be explained, managed or quietly worked around during the hour.
Yes. Sessions are online, so a move does not have to mean starting over with someone new.
Fenweh: a therapist and client in a first session, one gesturing while the other listens, illustrating the start of a conversation
When you're ready

Meet the person who will hold space for you.

When you're ready, explore our practitioners and book with the person who feels right for you. If you would like a little guidance, Need help choosing? is always available.

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