Samvedna Senior Care, Anand Niketan

I have been working with Ms. Chopra for several months now. I was matched with her through Samvedna Care, the website, where I went to look for a psychologist.

I had been given some diagnoses (right and wrong) by previous therapists, counsellors and psychiatric professionals, and had been on medication earlier, but at the time that I started seeing Ms. Chopra, I was doing excessively bad and was not able to cope or function at a normal pace in life.

Ms. Chopra has created a dialogue between us which 1) enables me to be extremely honest with her even if the truth is not pleasant, 2) helps me recognise my own harmful patterns, 3) identify and work on aspects of myself that need work, 4) gives me enough agency that I feel like an adult in the conversation and not a child being scolded or disciplined {which can happen in such relationships}, and 5) makes me feel more and more ready to face my mental health challenges and the life outside them, without fearing anything or thinking that my life is defined by them. Only a psychologist who is looking at you as a holistic person and not just a bundle of illnesses with a wallet can do this, so I am fortunate to have been matched with her. It also helps that we share a sense of humour in some ways so there are many moments of pure laughter and I value those.

Please seek her counsel if you are looking to understand your mental health better, if you are someone who feels like they can work on themselves but they need direction, if you struggle with issues of high-sensitivity, high-functioning anxiety, chronic depression and similar conditions or if you simply want a guiding force that can create a safe, effective and empathetic space for you to examine yourself with a professional psychologist.

Meenakshi's greatest strength is that she can resonate at multiple levels. My experience with therapists in the past has been that they try and veer and steer their clients towards a standard narrative of normalcy in your area of concern. To that extent there is a degree of pre-determinism that subtly dominates and directs the therapist client interaction. In this regard I found Meenskshi's approach to be delightfully different. She doesn't attempt to dislodge you from your position on the subject. Instead she tries to make sense of it and tries to find normalcy within that space. THAT I found to be a far more refreshing approach. Overall her avancular demeanor and ability to not just hear, but listen, makes for a very reassuring experience.