Famous Indian Clinical Psychotherapist, Radhika Bapat

Radhika Bapat is an Indian Clinical Psychotherapist and one of the few internationally acknowledged Indian psychologists who practises and lives in India. She is dedicated to mental health advocacy, research, and training efforts that promote treatment and reduce stigma in the United States and around the world.

Radhika Bapat studied at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York and graduated from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. The psychotherapist formerly worked for the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists and at the Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts as an in-house Student Counselor. Radhika worked as the Head of the Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health Department at the Sahyadri Hospitals. Radhika now works as a psychotherapist on her own.

Radhika has been counseling people of all ages with mental health difficulties as a cross-cultural psychologist since 2004.

Her evidence-based, short-term therapies are based on rational emotive and cognitive behavioral frameworks. Her therapy takes place in a cross-cultural setting, with a heavy emphasis on contextual narrative and indigenous metaphors. In both her life and treatment, she uses a lot of humor. She now works with adults who are dealing with stress and adjustment challenges, as well as mood and anxiety disorders.

Radhika has been providing free information to aid people outside of the arena of individual treatment since the mental health aftermath of the Coronavirus outbreak. Since its introduction in February 2020, her Instagram handle, @psychotherapybar, has seen exponential growth and interaction, earning her recognition as a mid-level mental health influencer.

She was named one of the 100 Digital Influencers of 2020 by YourStory. The International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), a sort of United Nations for 90 national psychology organizations and over 20 regional organizations, has also recognised her as a “Young Emerging Psychologist.”