Team - Manorathi Foundation

Team.

Mona Sharma

Founder/Mental Health Professional

She is a public mental health professional and a cognitive behaviour therapist with more than 20 years of experience. She trained at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health USA and Beck’s Institute USA. Mona has worked in diverse areas of mental health care, as a trainer, clinician, researcher and a mental health advocate.

Pankhuri Kaushik

Director/Core Team Member

She is a Project/Product Manager with 10 years of technology & leadership experience. She believes in turning ideas into realities. She has worked in building varied products in her journey like education, marketing, Autism and child developmental tool and more products in counting.

Akanksha Agarwal

Counseling Psychologist

She is a Counseling Psychologist (MA psychology) and she has done a 2 year certificate course in Cognitive Behavior Therapy from Saarthak (NGO) in Delhi. Akanksha is currently working as a school counsellor. She has worked with mental health NGOs in rehabilitation of people with severe and enduring mental health disorders.

Sanjay Bhatnagar

Core Team Member

He is an Electrical engineer from IIT Delhi. He passed out of college around 1983 and from 1987 – 1994 was working in France and still in good touch with the language. He likes to write, read and play chess apart from having a good ear for music. Creativity and originality shows up in his writing.

Shivani Purnima

Clinical Psychologist

She is a Clinical Psychologist (licensed) and has work experience in the areas related to child development, insomnia, sleep apnea, female sexual dysfunctions, domestic violence, and common mental health disorders. Shivani has an M.Phil degree in Clinical Psychology from IHBAS Delhi. She provides individual therapy, family therapy and rehabilitation counselling. Shivani follows a community based approach in her clinical work.

Rekha Patel

Clinical Psychologist (CRR NO. A52651)

She is a licensed clinical psychologist trained at CIP Ranchi and has experience as a psychologist and researcher at AIIMS Delhi. She specializes in psychological assessments, diagnostics, and therapy for childhood and various psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and managing stressful situations. She oversees clinical services at Manorathi, providing supervision and guidance to psychologists, counselors, and volunteers to enhance their clinical skills.