I am Kopal. I am a psychologist, and I came to this work the long way around. I had a career I had built deliberately, went through a period of quite severe identity crisis, struggled with my emotions in ways I did not understand at the time, and eventually found my way through with the right support. That experience is not why I am a therapist. The training is. But it is why I actually understand what it means to be holding it together on the outside while something else entirely is happening on the inside. My clinical training is from AIIMS, New Delhi. I am certified in CBT through the Beck Institute, in Motivational Interviewing through NIMHANS Bangalore, and I am currently completing my mindfulness certification through Brown University. I qualified UGC-NET and graduated with a gold medal in psychology. I mention all of this because I want you to know that everything I do in sessions is based on researched approaches instead of plain advice and/or intuition.