Our Team
Pause for Perspective was christened in 2015. It was founded by Aarathi Selvan who had an established private practice since 2010.
We are a team of clinical psychologists, psychological counselors, counselling psychologists and educationists who offer space and presence for the unfolding of human experience. We help individuals understand themselves, live intentionally, resist the impact of trauma, anxieties and life’s challenges to access preferred territories of our lives. We offer one-on-one counseling and psychotherapy, group counseling, family, couples counseling as well as counseling for children. We also work with clients online.
Pause, as we lovingly call our space, supports several non-governmental organizations and collectives in Hyderabad and around the country.
Our approach combines several modalities of counseling and therapy. Our team is trained in Mindfulness and Narrative Practices. We integrate our work with other modalities of psychotherapy such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Developmental Model of Couples work, Relational Life Therapy, Imago therapy, EMDR, Attachment perspective, Gestalt and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
Aarathi Selvan
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Aarathi Selvan is the Founder-Director at Pause for Perspective. She is Clinical Psychologist, Psychological Counselor, Mindfulness Practitioner, Supervisor and Teacher. She is also TEDxSpeaker
Divya Raj
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Divya Raj is a Clinical Psychologist, a mindfulness practitioner and a narrative therapist. She sees individuals, couples and geriatric folks in therapy.
Nida Mir
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Nida Mir is a Counseling Psychologist , a mindfulness practitioner and a narrative therapist. They are Pause’s Social Media head, Individual and Group Supervisor and Therapist. They see individuals, and couples in therapy.
Meherin Roshanara
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Meherin is a mental health worker and an individual therapist at Pause for Perspective. They have training in Narrative and Mindfulness practices. They work with queer, neurodivergent and c-ptsd individuals.
Eera Vishnoi
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Eera is a psychologist at Pause for Perspective. She specialises in seeing children and adults. She works within school communities and with marginalised communities as well.
Vasavi Eriki
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Vasavi Eriki is a mental health practitioner, art therapy practitioner at Pause for Perspective (PFP). They work primarily in Group Spaces and are not available for Individual appointments.
Sammy Sahni
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Sammy is an expressive arts therapy practitioner at Pause for Perspective. She specialises in seeing children, family and individuals. She works within school communities and with marginalised communities as well.
Shravani Koduri
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Shravani is a consultant psychotherapist at Pause for Perspective. She specialises in seeing children and adults. She works within school communities and with marginalised communities as well.
Bhanuja Peddu
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Bhanuja is a Mental Health Practitioner and consultant at Pause. She is trained in Mindfulness and Narrative Practices. She works with children, young adults and couples. She’s trained in mindfulness, narrative practice and trauma informed care with 3 years of experience.
Manasi Udgirkar
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Manasi is a Mental Health Worker. She was a Fellow at Pause for Perspective. She currently works with adults and young people in individual therapy, group therapy and family therapy.
BN Gayathri
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Gayathri is a mental health worker and completed the fellowship at Pause for Perspective. She works with adults and young people in individual therapy, group therapy and family therapy.
Dr. Rachana Chollangi
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Dr. Rachana is a Neuroqueer surgeon and mental health professional who works with individuals, communities and spaces to make mental health and medical care accessible, affirmative and anti oppressive.
Namrata Ajmani
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Namrata is a consultant Mental Health Worker. She compelted the fellowship at Pause for Perspective. She works with adults and young people in individual, family and group therapy
Promodhni Suresh
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Promodhni is a mental health professional and a consultant at Pause for Perspective. She works with young people in individual therapy.
Trisha Reddy
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Trisha is a consultant mental health worker and completed the Fellowship at Pause for Perspective. She works with adults and young people in individual therapy, group therapy and family therapy.
Shazia Ahmad (She/her)
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Shazia is a mental health professional and a consultant at Pause for Perspective. She works with people of all ages in individual therapy.
Anjali Nambiar
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Anjali Nambiar is a Mental Health Worker at Pause for Perspective. She is current a Fellow at the Embodied Social Justice for Mental Health Fellowship at Pause for Perspective. She sees children, adults, families and communities.
Batul Hussain
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Batul Hussain is an individual therapist. She works with young people in individual and family therapy. Her work is eclectic in nature, majorly guided by works of Person-Centred, Gestalt and Narrative therapy. She is interested in the intersection of nature based approaches and traditional therapy practices.
Krishna Priya
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Krishna Priya is a mental health professional and a consultant at Pause for Perspective. She works with adults and young people in individual therapy.
Anjali Alloria
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Anjali Alloria is an Expressive Arts Practitioner and a Mental Health Worker at Pause for Perspective. She is current a Fellow at the Embodied Social Justice for Mental Health Fellowship at Pause for Perspective. She sees children, adults, families and communities.
Amala Manohar Vaidya
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Amala is an expressive arts practitioner. They work with adults and young people in individual therapy.
Shwetha Kishore
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Shwetha Kishore is a Mental Health Worker at Pause for Perspective. She is current a Fellow at the Embodied Social Justice for Mental Health Fellowship at Pause for Perspective. She sees children, adults, families and communities.
Nithya Sri Buragadda
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Nithya Sri Buragadda is a Mental Health Worker at Pause for Perspective. She is current a Fellow at the Embodied Social Justice for Mental Health Fellowship at Pause for Perspective. She sees children, adults, families and communities.
Ramya Shruti A
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Ramya Shruti is an Expressive Arts Practitioner, a medical professional and a Mental Health Worker at Pause for Perspective. She is current a Fellow at the Embodied Social Justice for Mental Health Fellowship at Pause for Perspective. She sees children, adults, families and communities.
Aditi Singh
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Aditi Singh is a therapist who supports adolescents, couples and families, and older adults. Aditi has worked with people from many different backgrounds, including survivors of domestic violence, those from marginalized communities, and individuals from low-income settings.
Sanjana Satapathy
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Sanjana Satapathy is a full time therapist at Pause for Perspective. Her therapeutic work often explores themes around autonomy and control, identity, interpersonal struggles, emotional regulation, self-worth, and family conflict.
Mahathi Rajesh
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Mahathi draws from a narrative and existential approach, prioritizing trauma-informed care. She has worked in community-based settings, supporting individuals from marginalized caste, gender, and religious backgrounds through trauma-informed self-care sessions. In residential elder-care contexts, she has designed and facilitated therapeutic activities to enhance emotional, cognitive, and social well-being in older adults.
Subha Kher
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Subha Kher (She/her) Subha is a psychotherapist at Pause for Perspective. She is a trauma-informed practitioner whose work is shaped by intersectionality and a social justice framework. Subha has worked with children, adolescents, and adults across clinical and community-based settings. She has supported individuals navigating anxiety, grief, trauma, substance use, relational concerns, and gender-based violence.
Niyati Tayade
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Neeyati is a therapist and researcher who approaches mental health through a political and intersectional lens. As an Ambedkarite and Buddhist, her practice is rooted in anti-caste, feminist, and decolonial values.
Neeyati is particularly committed to supporting queer individuals and people from caste-oppressed backgrounds.
Bavani Pasala
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Bavani is a mental health advocate who roots her practice in the concept of mental justice, where mental health is a matter of social justice. She holds an intersectional, rights-based, and anti-oppressive stance, strongly believing that therapeutic spaces are actively political, as hope and healing cannot be found in isolation from the systems we navigate and the communities we form.
Ananya Batra
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Ananya Batra is a Consultant Therapist at Pause for Perspective who thrives on building safe, compassionate, and collaborative therapeutic spaces. She brings in a disability-affirming lens to her work, with the intention of making therapy inclusive and accessible to people from all walks of life.