Hello! My name is Mridula Baurai, and I’m a Psychotherapist with 5 years of work experience in the field. I started my journey by working with children on the autism spectrum, after which I pursued my Master’s in Clinical Psychology and began training and working at Hank Nunn Institute, Bangalore. I’m trained in and use the Relational Psychodynamic framework, and my work is also informed by Group Analysis and the Therapeutic Community (TC) framework.

I’ve had the opportunity to pursue my Foundation Year in Group Analysis from Hank Nunn Institute in collaboration with the Institute of Group Analysis, London. I’ve also been a part of MOSAIC, an Academic Therapeutic Community, which has taught me the value of collaboration and communication. Currently, I run a full-time private practice working with individuals and groups.

I know that starting therapy can feel like a huge step, and one might have a lot of anticipations and curiosities regarding the process. If I have to break it down for you, I like to think of therapy as a collaborative process where we engage in a mutual meaning-making process. I do not believe that I’m the expert on your life; rather, my expertise lies in helping you navigate the challenges and difficulties you would like to address. I look at your difficulties in relation to your socio-cultural and political context, as these are important determinants of how we see and experience the world. I’m curious about you and your experiences rather than the labels you come with, and by that I mean a lot of our conversations will be around how you experience your distress. Lastly, I believe that therapy serves as a mirror to our interactions with the world, thus allowing us to work through our difficulties in the here and now.

I love learning new things and when I’m not working, I like to spend my time reading, writing, and studying. I maintain a Substack page that helps me find a voice for my experiences. I am also pursuing a Master’s in Women’s and Gender Studies from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). Beyond that, my guilty pleasure is a good afternoon siesta, which can go from 20 minutes to 2 hours very quickly (cries internally). My current obsession is solving sudoku(s) and binge-watching crime thrillers.

The fee I charge is:

Indians : 2000/session

Foreign residents : 3000/session

Currently, I do not have any sliding scale slots. But when I do it is any where between 1200 to 2200, so please write to me separately about it.

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Previous Work Experience:

Hank Nunn Institute (April 2022 - November 2025)
At HNI, I have been involved in conducting assessments, along with individual and group therapy sessions with service users. I’ve also set up and facilitated support group spaces for employees at corporates and for young women leaving government care homes.
I am also interested in curating teaching and learning spaces, and was also involved in designing and facilitating Hank Nunn Institute’s 6-month training program, UNREAD.

Sambhavam Centre for Autism (May 2018 - April 2019)
Worked as a behavioural therapist with children between 5 and 12 years of age. I was primarily involved in implementing social skills interventions to help the children lead independent lives.

Research areas of interest: Gendered experiences of mental health difficulties and power dynamics, Psychic Deadness. I have also been thinking about addiction from a Psychoanalytic lens.