About

Navya Pandey is working as an Assistant Professor in the department of Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore. Earlier she has worked as an Assistant Professor in Amity University Noida (4 yrs) and Banasthali University Rajasthan (5 yrs). She has been a gold medalist and a recipient of UGC scholarship for university rank holders. She qualified UGC NET in 2008 and completed her doctorate in Psychology in 2014. She has more than 11 years of experience in teaching U.G. and P.G. students, has published research papers in numerous national as well as international journals and has presented papers in various conferences.

Apart from teaching U.G. and P.G. students, she has worked as a counsellor in the psychological counselling cell in Banasthali University Rajasthan for 5 years. There she worked with the psychological issues of young adult students. Post that also, she has been providing counselling to college students in the universities where she has worked. She has been trained in various psychotherapies and counselling techniques including mindfulness based therapy, clinical hypnotherapy, Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). She got trained in Mindfulness based techniques and positive psychology interventions from NIMHANS, Bangalore in 2019. She is an advanced practitioner of psychotherapies especially focused on relaxation, guided imagery, mindfulness and management of emotions, behavior and beliefs. She has conducted various workshops for students on mindfulness, emotional regulation, guided imagery and hypnotherapy. She has been privileged to be trained by Albert Ellis Institute New York and California Hypnosis Institute USA. She is a life member, trainer and executive team member of California Hypnosis Institute USA. She has special interest in helping people to understand/manage their emotions and thus move forward in the path of self actualization by utilizing their potential.