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Barkha Bajaj- Mental Health Practitioner and Consultant

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Barkha Bajaj- Mental Health Practitioner and Consultant

Barkha Bajaj, is an independent mental health practitioner with over 10 years of experience working in the field of individual, family and child therapy.

Barkha is a mental health practitioner providing individual, couples and family therapy in Pune, Maharashtra. She has a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Pune University and a Masters in Counseling Psychology from the Unites States of America. With over 14 years of experience in the field she uses the Relational Cultural perspective combined with affect oriented therapy to help clients address a plethora of issues in their life. She is also a social justice advocate and works passionately in the field of gender based violence, LGBT rights and feminist work. She is a consultant for POCSO (Protection of Children against Sexual Offences) and POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) and is on several ICC (Internal Complaints Committees) as an expert on Gender Based Violence. She uses humor, empathy, compassion to work diligently with clients to help clients process and work through life issues to live a more whole life.

02/11/2025

What a time to be alive! Thank you TEAM INDIA.

Women in Blue 💙

20/10/2025

Happy Diwali from mine to yours ❣️

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28/09/2025

My first day at the Transform Trauma conference was phenomenal. Esther Perel was everything and more and we saw therapy clips- and there was laughter and tears and everything in between. What a great bunch therapists are- kind, compassionate, empathetic and present. To do this in person with Esther has been a dream and I am so glad the dream came true in 2025.

The IFS and psychedelics session was a big bonus!
💙🧿

05/09/2025

I write this while I lay sick in bed with my annual flu. Why did I think of writing this? Because I wanted to speak about the exhaustion that people in the health care sector feel. It’s not that our bodies get tired but it almost feels like our souls do. Now I don’t want to be over dramatic so allow me to explain- I am a 44 year old psychotherapist with 20 years of clinical experience. I started out in the field of family therapy- grief and trauma and during Covid took a decision to distance myself from trauma work by doing more couples work (because I had to close calls with complete burn out).

I am above average in terms of self care. I strictly do not work weekends, take 2 weeks off every quarter and also exercise atleast 3 times a week if not more and prioritise joy, fun, food, friends and travel.

Even after all this there is this exhaustion I experience - it’s not only physical it’s the is exhaustion from the inside because I carry so many stories within me. Stories of pain, betrayal, hurt, trauma and grief. Maybe after 20 years these stories start weighing you down and it’s tough because I live for these stories- I think it’s a privilege that I get to act like a vault for these stories. People share with me things they have never said before and I am humbled by that faith and trust they put in me.

It’s hard when your purpose also has so much pain. I know I will take care of me and the exhaustion will lessen and I will bounce back but sometimes I wonder does it ever end. Will I wake up one day and not be exhausted at all? Probably not. It is the price we pay for caring deeply.

So next time you ask a therapist what do you really do or tell them oh but you get paid just to listen- remember we carry an invisible exhaustion of the soul that you may never see/ understand and that is okay because we chose this. I chose this field, I love it - there is nothing else in the world I rather be doing. So I will cope with it and I will come out the other side just like my brave, resilient clients do until then I just wanted to rant. Thanks for listening.

01/09/2025

I have been reading this all weekend and it’s crazy how Pattanaik’s interpretation of the Gita is so close to so many things we say and cover in Psychology.

It talks about perspective and how we all see everything through the lens of our own experiences, thoughts and beliefs. It talks about whether there is one real truth when truth is defined by our perception and hence is just an interpretation.

It further talks about how western philosophy and religious models talk about one truth, one god and heaven and hell thus creating ideas about victim and perpetrator/ good and evil/ oppressed and oppressor but because Hinduism sees life as circular - birth and rebirth -a perpetrator can also be a victim and a victim can be a perpetrator - there is no one good and evil. It’s all fluid! It’s been amazing to read this book as a therapist and again take this with a pinch of salt as this is MY interpretation of MY GITA.

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21/07/2025

My 2 penny worth about the coldplay concert controversy. I am a couples therapist so infidelity shows up often in my office. It’s deeply painful stuff and the betrayal, pain, guilt, shame destroys people and their families. As a world to sit on a moral high horse and judge someone’s life and stalk their partners to make a deeply painful event even more painful is what worries me about this world. We look down upon the world with this moral indignation that we don’t pause to look how we contribute to the problem or make things worse!

Infidelity is much more common than we think, ofcourse I promote ethical non monogamy over cheating and lies which leads to awful betrayal trauma but imagine being traumatised and “shamed” by the whole world at the same time. Do we have to create holy and evil, good and bad in such extremes that we can’t understand that someone’s private life is far more multilayered than we know and has too many people connected to it for us to add to the trauma.

Half the world sitting jn judgement - do you understand infidelity and its impact on families? Do you know enough from a snippet to shame someone on television? Are you so “morally” sound that you can’t lean in with empathy and compassion but only shame and disgust for others. This event exposes so much more about all of us as a society and our complete fall from grace than it does about the couple in question. Everyday I lose a little faith in the internet and people sitting behind computers shaming others rather than looking within!

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13/07/2025

Definitely questionable fiction choice for a therapist!

01/07/2025

A man in Bombay locked himself to the world after he lost 3 family members in quick succession. He disappeared into his home and no one noticed. I write this because I am grappling with how lonely the world is becoming even though we live under the illusion of connection. Humans need humans, we need touch, we need connection and we need a sense of belonging.

We are creating a world where we seem connected, get on virtual calls, order swiggy, get everything on blink it - but is this truly connection. Are we seen, heard, understood, do we have people for small talk, office bitching or water cooler discussions? As we become lonelier it’s important to ask if in the garb of convenience what we are really buying is loneliness.

As a therapist, I am heartbroken we live in a world where neighbors don’t notice, where someone is so depressed but instead of finding connection he falls into the depth of isolation because no one asked how are you? Are you ok? He went through acute grief and was not immediately surrounded by community like in older times.

Are we saying we are connecting but really just so isolated that human connection, our basic human need is lost?

04/06/2025

May be, may be not!

My 44th year on this planet came about in the month of May.

It sure has been a month of maybe- may be nots. Work challenges, picking my battles, making tough choices and many tough conversations left me feeling ungrounded and dysregulated more than normal and yet as is in our jobs and I tell my therapists- clients pay us for being regulated and present. So I vacillated between struggling outside session to grounding and regulating before sessions so I could be present in session. (So for anyone who thinks we “just” listen - you do not know what it takes to truly listen).

In your 40s, something special happens you have shed a lot of the facade and you have navigated with resilience a lot of your 20s and 30s but you are also re-examining a lot of life choices all the while you are also worrying about aging parents and coming to terms with impending mortality. As I sit and reflect in the rain I feel a metamorphosis happening. It is painful, it is uncomfortable and I have some anticipatory grief about the things I will lose as I change and the world changes but it feels like growth and if I dare say, evolution.

This mid life crisis stuff must be real but then from chaos, crisis and change sometimes comes growth, clarity and evolution.

17/05/2025

Finally some fiction on my bed side table! When you are down you escape into someone else’s world. Works for me every time. 🤍

05/05/2025

Aks crisis line responder on her experience of taking the first call on the crisis line. We do a two day extensive training followed by mock calls before crisis line responders are put on calls. If you want to volunteer with aks do DM us!

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27/03/2025

Dad, my first big memory of you-

I was struggling in dance class in first grade and my teacher hit me because clearly I did not have the makings of a classical dancer 🙄 The next day I am standing outside the classroom and you come to school (in uniform before going to work) and I don’t know what you said (I imagine you told her -never to lay a finger on me) but she NEVER hit me again. In that moment I knew you were my protector, forever. You have continued to protect me -NO MATTER WHAT.

You have been stern when I needed it, and said NO when I needed to hear it, set boundaries and yet somehow you have let me fly, be my mad self, supported my dreams and believed in me even when I had crazy ideas like starting a NGO and my own business. You have always had faith in me- it’s been unwavering and you do not know how much that means to me. I love you- you are my rock and my rockstar and we have gone from sharing a milk bottle to a whiskey bottle seamlessly. For that I am grateful.

Happy 75th dad- strong dads make strong women and you exemplify that everyday.

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Tuesday	12:12pm - 6:06pm
Wednesday	12:12pm - 6:06pm
Thursday	12:12pm - 6:06pm
Friday	12:12pm - 6:06pm

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