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DURGA MENON 

Psychodynamic Psychotherapist

 In my time with you, I hope to co-create a holding space where we can navigate through the waves that ebb and flow at the shores of your inner world, exploring vocabulary that can begin the conversation between you and yourself.

 

Our sessions will help bring your patterns to life, to understand how to evolve from them or accept them as they are.

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QUALIFICATIONS

  • MSc. Psychology, Bengaluru (2016-2018)

  • B.A Psychology (Honours), Bengaluru (2012 -2015) 

AREAS OF SUPPORT

  • Relationships and Dynamics (Workplace & Family) 

  • Gender and Sexuality 

  • Career and Life Transitions 

  • Grief and Loss 

  • Abuse (Emotional and Sexual) 

  • PCOS (mental health experience)

  • Anxiety and Stress

  • Depression

MY APPROACH 

  • Psychodynamic Lens and Relational Psychotherapy:

Reflective thinking and insights are born from the (therapeutic) relationship co-created between us over time. Therapeutic conversations allow me to understand how your childhood patterns have shaped and aided you in coping so far.​

  • Non-diagnostic and Context-oriented: I rely on the client's psychosocial context and lived experiences of mental health, to facilitate the creation of vocabulary concerning a person's narrative and social location.

  • Trauma-informed and Queer-affirmative

  • Democratic Therapeutic Community Methodology: I view you, the client as an equal contributor to the collaborative process of therapy. Some of the values from the DTC approach that aid me in holding a therapeutic space are containment, balance, process-oriented dialogue, respect, and communication.

  • BACP ethical guidelines contribute to how I hold therapeutic spaces responsibly. 

                               

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WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Mosaic, Therapeutic Community Group Facilitator/Manager, Hank Nunn Institute, Bengaluru, November 2022 - present

  • ​Sports Psychologist Trainee, Reliance Foundation Young Champs, Navi Mumbai, April 2019- January 2021

  • Psychology Student Mentor, The Climber Pvt. Ltd (My Captain program), Bengaluru, September 2016 - March 2019

  • Research Assistant of Mind Matters Clinic, Bengaluru, June 2015 - March 2016​​

PUBLICATION

CONTINUED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

​TRAINING 

  • UNREAD Training Program (for mental health practitioners), Hank Nunn Institute, Bengaluru September 2021- February 2022

  • Certificate in 'Working with Trauma', Hank Nunn Institute, Bengaluru, April 2022

  • Transactional Analysis (TA 101), International Transactional Analysis Association, August 2022

  • Risk Assessment and Management, Hank Nunn Institute, Bengaluru, September 2022

  • Seminar on Trauma and Attachment, International Attachment Network, April 2023 (Online) 

  • Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice, Mariwala Health Initiative, Bengaluru, May 2023

  • Living Learning Experience (LLE), 3-day Transient Therapeutic Community, Hank Nunn Institute, Bengaluru, January 2024 

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Mosaic (Academic Therapeutic Community), Member and Group Facilitator, Hank Nunn Institute, September 2021- present​

  • Association for Psychosocial Studies, Member, September 2022 - present

  • The Relational School, Member, January 2024 - present

  • International Network of Democratic Therapeutic Communities - Relational Practice, Member, February 2024 - present 

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