About

Avantika is a practising Psychologist and Expressive Arts Therapy Practitioner who works with individuals and groups using the body-mind approach to counselling and psychotherapy through her private practice in Bandra, Mumbai. She specialises in working with youth and adults experiencing depression, anxiety, stress, grief, relationship, self-esteem, abuse, identity and adjustment concerns. Avantika has gained her training and experience within the Indian cultural context and has worked across Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Mysore, Pune and Mumbai. This has been in settings such as corporates, hospitals, schools and therapy centers. She founded Soul Canvas – Art for Wellness in 2014 to spread awareness about the power of expressive arts in individual/group therapy and training. As Director of Therapy Services at Artsphere she led several corporate workshops and expressive arts therapy modules in training at Dance & Psychology Departments of Pune University and CYDA-TISS Counselling Diploma in Pune. Currently, she is a faculty member with Creative Movement Therapy Association of India, teaching and supervising on the Dance Movement Therapy training courses in Delhi and Pune. She is also guest faculty at the TISS - Dance Movement Therapy Diploma Course in Mumbai, teaching counselling skills and group facilitation process.