In today’s episode, our host Iris Adira is joined with Jui Shankar, a senior psychotherapist who has had a longstanding focus on peace-building and social justice issues and contributing to mental health accessibility has brought her to work nationally (including North-Eastern India), and internationally in Papua New Guinea, Iraq and Cyprus.

Her work has extended to different contexts and positions from a mental health specialist with Medecins sans Frontiers (MSF), to an Assistant Professor with Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts (SSLA) and Middle East Technical University (METU), Northern Cyprus Campus. Jui currently works as a senior psychotherapist at Unalome, a private psychology praxis based out of Pune, India, and is a visiting faculty at Savitribai Phule University, Pune.

Tune in and find out what how to handle isolation, stress, and loneliness during work in hardship duty stations, take home the 5 C’s strategy & how it can help you to overcome difficult life conditions, and much more!

If you are interested in reaching out to Jui and her team for professional psychological support, she provides individual therapy for adults, adolescents, as well as couples and family therapy. Depression, anxiety, stress,self-harming behaviours, violence, behavioural issues, self-confidence building, relationship concerns, mental health issues with older adults are some of the issues she addressesin sessions. Her style of therapy is based on Interpersonal and Gestalt approaches; however, she works with what best suits the client(s). In her own professional and personal life, Jui practices these as she believes in using knowledge, insight, and reflection to enrich her own being and her relationships with a new understanding and wisdom. You can find her here: https://unalometherapy.com/

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