Counseling Psychologist
Private Practice
Adithy, MS, MA, is a counseling psychologist in private practice in Pune, India, involved in education, prevention, intervention and postvention work in the field of mental health for 20 years. She is pursuing a PhD at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She takes the approach of trauma healing in her psychotherapy. To her work, she brings knowledge and experience from using many therapeutic modalities such as EMDR, somatic, energy, art, movement, narrative exposure and hypno- therapies. She has been part of the training teams as practicum facilitator for EMDR in India and Nepal and training assistant for Integral Somatic Psychology in India. Her interest in trauma and dissociation has led her to creating platforms for empowering mental health workers in working effectively in this area. She has experience in co-training and co-leading intervention teams that offer psychosocial support after disasters. She has also jointly developed and implemented programmes for suicide prevention and support for survivors of suicide loss. She has initiated a program for trauma therapy for disabled soldiers. She is serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) from 2022 and is the initiator and Co-Chair of the EMDR Special Interest Group. She was an invited panelist at ISSTDās World Congress on Complex Trauma in New York City in 2019 and a co-presenter at ISSTD Asia-Pacific Virtual Conference in 2021. She has presented at EMDR Asia and India conferences. She has co-authored articles in international journals of mental health, including one in the Journal of EMDR Practice and Research. Topics of her published research articles include review of PTSD research in India, stress management for university students, parenting, and EMDR in India. She is passionate about learning and sharing effective methods of healing.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM US Eastern Time