Harshika Ramsubramanian is a Counselling Psychologist, Expressive Arts Facilitator, and Parenting Coach. She has completed her Masters in Counselling Psychology and certification in Expressive Arts Therapy. She is at present going through training to become a Queer Affirmative Counselling Practitioner. She has been practicing since 2015 and works with children and adults to help them on their healing journey through various difficult emotions, situations, and behavioral patterns.
Harshika specializes in the therapy techniques of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Solution Focused Brief. Her work revolves around relationships, stress and anxiety, body image concerns, self-esteem/self-confidence, social anxiety/concerns, concerns with family dynamics and relationships for adolescents and adults; behavior/emotional/social concerns in children as well as parenting concerns.
She has been published in newspapers and magazines for her work on body positivity, relationships, and boundaries. She has conducted corporate workshops and been a speaker on social media platforms to talk about mental health and related topics. She communicates in Hindi, English, and Tamil.
Her core belief as a Mental Health practitioner is: “Learn, Unlearn and Relearn to grow both personally, professionally and in the process become unapologetically oneself/yourself.” This is reflected in her journey to become a psychologist:
Over the course of the 8 years, Harshika has worked across age groups and across concern areas both online and offline combining a blend of talk therapy, cognitive restructuring and expressive arts work which ease her clients into the sessions as well as allow them to have fun and learn about themselves.