Snigdha Mishra cis. She/Her

motional and behavioural health of an individual or a relationship. Her principle in counselling is helping people empower themselves, minimise distress and evolve to find better meaning in their everyday lives. She simultaneously works on psycho-education, improving mental health literacy, nurturing safe spaces, providing trained mental health peer support and improving help-seeking behaviour

Through Life Surfers, she is actively engaged in community-based tertiary mental health support systems by training laypersons in Mental health Support Skills (Peer Mental Health First Aid) in college campuses and workplaces across India. Life Surfers endeavours improve the mental health care gap in India and development of skills in Psychologists. She has training and expertise in Cognitive and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapies, Clinical Hypnotherapy. Snigdha has training in CBT from The Beck Institute, Philadelphia, USA and is a certified Corporate Social Responsibility Trainer from Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, India. Snigdha is an avid reader, music lover, a passionate cook and social activist. She actively supports capacity building and awareness on Gender Equality & Mental Health. She runs a Mental Well-Being Youtube channel to help build awareness on connecting mental health and quality of life. You can follow her as @mhwithsnigdha and @lifesurfersorg on Twitter and Instagram or Facebook.