The in-between
is where I work.
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." — Carl Jung
My training began at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, one of Asia's most rigorous medical institutions, where I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology and built a solid foundation in evidence-based practice: cognitive approaches, psychodynamic work, and family systems therapy.
It was a rigorous, science-grounded education in how the mind works, how patterns form, and how therapy, done well, can interrupt them.
What it did not fully prepare me for was my own life.
While I was building and excelling professionally, my personal life was experiencing its own seismic shifts: significant losses in relationships, in identity, in the stability I had carefully constructed. I navigated undiagnosed ADHD long before I had language for it.
During that time I made the decision to uproot myself and move to the United States, where I completed my Master of Social Work, became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and went on to work at NYU Silver School of Social Work as a clinician and senior research scientist. There, I worked with adults living with PTSD: people carrying deep, often unspoken wounds that had quietly shaped everything.
That work taught me what it means to hold someone's history with care, and how profoundly the past lives in the present.
Living and working in New York also deepened my understanding of culture, identity, and the particular weight of family expectations carried across generations and across borders.
And yet, something still felt incomplete.
In the therapy room, I kept encountering the same gap: in my clients and, honestly, in myself. People who understood their patterns clearly, who had insight and language and awareness, and still found themselves returning to the same stuck places.
The mind was engaged. The body had not moved.
I came to understand that real transformation requires both. This led me back to India where I started my practice and began integrating somatic and body-based approaches into my work. I later continued this work in Costa Rica, deepening that understanding across yet another culture and healing tradition.
More recently, I have incorporated EMDR into my work, supporting processing at both the cognitive and nervous system level.
I am back in New York now, building Antara with everything I have gathered across those years.
I am still, in many ways, in conversation with the question of home. And over time, I have come to understand what it means to belong nowhere and everywhere at once: to live between worlds, between cultures, between identities, between the mind and the body, between Eastern wisdom and Western science.
That in-between space is Antara. And it is exactly where I do my best work.
I would be honored to share it with you.