Faculty

Teaching Staff

Ms. Ruby Pavri

Associate Professor & Head of Department

Educational Qualification: MA in Counselling Psychology, B.Ed, SET

Teaching Experience: 24 years (1996 onwards)

Achievements include invitations as a moderator, resource person, member of the Board of Studies, visiting faculty in other esteemed Institutions. Also involved with compering and judging events in and out of college.

Research Interests include Pedagogy (innovative teaching/evaluation methods)

Ms. Linda Dhakul

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualification: MA in Counselling Psychology, B.Ed, NET with JRF

Teaching Experience: 10 years (2010 onwards)

Achievements include being invited as a moderator, visiting faculty, member of Board of Studies. She is also the Convener of the Women Development Cell in campus.

Research Interests include Counselling, Psychotherapy, teacher training and working with populations having special needs.

Also Visiting Faculty with

Faculty at the Xavier Institute of Counseling XICP postgraduate training for Counselors since 1992. (The first counseling course in the city for training counsellors, founded by Fr. Berkie s.j)

Was involved in teaching Geriatric issues, dealing with death and dying, Psychopathology and Ethics related to counselling, Personality theory and therapy and Supervision of counsellors.

Faculty at personal counseling certificate course since 2019 (based on the vision of Fr. J M Fuster s.j)

Was involved in teaching Ethics and basic skills

Faculty at Prafulta, the largest NGO working in the area of Mental Health at their Advanced training Course for counselors since 2010

Counselling Psychologist. Basically, dealing with special issues such as Addiction, Suicide, Academic issues and Supervision of the counselors

Subjects taught:

FYBA: Introduction to Psychology, Special course Voice to Values

SYBA: Psychology of Gender, Developmental second semester only

TYBA: Abnormal Psychology

Member of the WDC, Secretary to the Staff council, member of Inclusion cell and IC

Interests

Health and Wellbeing (trained as a yoga teacher from the Patanjali institute Santacruz)

Geriatric issues

Dealing with loss and grief

Suicide education and intervention before and after

Conducting workshops for teachers, self-development and dealing with challenges in the classroom, handling personal and professional balance

Currently training in Palliative care (Sept2020-April2021).

completed training in Psychological First Aid 2020 and Dealing with Dementia in a community 2020

Fr. Dean Fernandes, S.J.

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualification: MA in Counselling Psychology

Teaching Experience: 5 years (2015 onwards)

Achievements include being invited as a moderator, member of Board of Studies. He is the Director of AICUF.

Interests: Moral Development, Social Psychology of Inequality, Psychology of Social Justice, Heuristics.

Ms. Ruchi Brahmachari

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualification: M.A. ( Clinical Psychology, MS Univ Baroda), M.A. (Child Clinical Psychology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA), Pursuing PhD

Teaching Experience: 5 years (2019 onwards)

Clinical Interests: Interpersonal adjustment, Parent-Child Communication and Relationships, Emotional and Behavioural Problems of Childhood and Adolescence

Research Interests: Psychological Assessment, Learning Disabilities, Socioemotional problems with academic underachievement

Ms. Karen Fernandes Almeida

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualification: M.A. (Clinical Psychology), NET - JRF, Pursuing PhD at the University of Mumbai

Teaching Experience: 7 years (2017 onwards)

Research Interests: Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Cognitive Psychology

Ms. Devika Mehta Kadam

Assistant Professor,Program Head, P.G. Diploma Expressive Arts Therapy

Educational Qualification: M.Sc Dance Movement Psychotherapy (Queen Margaret University UK), MA in Clinical Psychology (University of Mumbai, India)

Currently Pursuing PhD, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,

Teaching Experience: 5 years (2019 onwards)

Research Interests: Arts in Health, Indigenous Psychology, Decolonising psychology through arts, Public Policy, Neuroscience and Neuro Rehabilitation

Conference Presentations:

Panelist, Global Panel (2023): From Tradition to diversity, innovation and breakthrough: Key Conversations on Dance and Movement Therapy around the world, Dance and Movement Therapy, World Arts and Embodiment Forum.
Honig,O, Chakrabarti, O., Mehta Kadam,D. and Ram-Vlasov, N, (2022): Memories of Lockdown: A trauma-informed cross cultural perspective of Art-Therapy during the Covid-19 Pandemic lockdown in India and Israel. 16th European Art Therapies Conference, Lithuania.
Gopalkrishna, M., Mehta Kadam, D., (2022). Power and Language (ing) of Care. The Spaces between Equity, Voice, Agency and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies, NYU x UCL Global Seminar Series.
Mehta Kadam,D., (2022): Dancing Earth Creations: Dance Movement Therapy and Ecological Grief. CMTAI's 9th Annual International Conference, Mumbai.
Mehta Kadam,D, (2022): Reconnecting with Mother Earth, Healing with Na- ture, Embodiment and Ecopsychology Summit, Embody Lab.
Serlin, I.A., Mehta Kadam, D., Zhou, G. (2021): Cultural Loss and Use of Traditional Folk Dance to work with Trauma, 56th American Dance Therapy Conference.
Mehta Kadam,D, (2021):Dance Movement Therapy Neuro-Rehabilitation, 4th Asian Oceanian Congress for Neurorehabilitation.
Mehta Kadam,D (2021): IACAET Global care for caregivers in and through arts, India. (Webinar)
Mehta Kadam,D and Ram-Vlasov, N, Honig,O, Chakrabarti, O.(2021):
Strengthening Resilience via Distance Guided Art in Response to Global Pan- demic: An art therapy cross cultural research study between India and Israel, 28th Bombay Psychological Association Conference.
Mehta Kadam,D (2021):Addressing Cultural Loss through Indian Arts, Ameri- can Psychological Association: Covid Interpersonal Violence Roundtable.
Mehta Kadam,D (2021): The intersection between the Arts in Education, Health, Community and Therapy in International Contexts: Tradition, Inno- vation and Breakthroughs, IACAET Global Connection Webinar Series.
Mehta Kadam, D (2020):Ways of Seeing Panel, Mental Health Access Summit , Mental Health Foundation India with All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Mehta Kadam, D (2020): 'Kalpa'- Folk Rituals: Tapping into community based indigenous rituals as a pathway to developing the self, The Embodiment Conference.

Wager, J; Mehta Kadam, D (2020): Unwinding Session: Moving Bodies, The Mental Health Fest, World Federation of Mental Health in collaboration with the World Health Organisation and United for Global Mental Health.

Mehta Kadam, D (2020): Cultural Consciousness: Using Indian Folk Forms within the Dance Movement Therapy Context with groups of Adolescents and Young Adults,Dance Therapy Advocates Summit, USA.

Mehta Kadam, D (2018): Dance Movement Psychotherapy with Parkinsons and other Neurological Disorders, European Association of Dance Movement Therapy, Athens, Greece

Mehta Kadam, D (2018): Dance/Movement Therapy and the older client:Healing Pathways to Resilience and Community, The International Panel at the ADTA 52nd Annual Dance Therapy Conference by ADTA, Texas, USA

Mehta Kadam, D ( 2016): Cultural Consciousness: Elements of Gujarati Folk Forms in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, CMTAI 3rd Annual International Conference, Pune, India

Mehta Kadam, D; Khatri, T (2015): Spontaneity in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and children with additional needs, CMTAI 2nd Annual International Conference, Bangalore, India.

Mehta Kadam, D, Barretto, M. (2015): Parkinson’s Disease and Dance therapy, Indian Federation Of Neurorehabilitation Conference, Mumbai, India

Video element: http://youtu.be/6a2uU534UzE

Publications:

Zhou, T., Kim, N., Machida, S., Sakiyama, Y., Tsai, P.-S., Lee, T., Hung Ho, R., Bijlani, R., Mehta, D., & Bui, M. (2019). Dance movement therapy in Asia: an overview of the profession and its practice. Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (CAET), Pages 40-50

https://caet.inspirees.com/caetojsjournals/index.php/caet/article/view/172

Mehta Kadam, D. ( 2017): Cultural Consciousness: Elements of Gujarati Folk Forms in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, Indian Magazine of Dance Therapy, 2nd edition

https://cmtaisiteblog.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/cultural-consciousness-elements-of-gujarati-folk-forms-in-dance-movement-psychotherapy/

Mehta Kadam, D. (2016): A case study of the movements of a child diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy within the context of Dance Movement Psychotherapy at a school for special needs, Indian Magazine of Dance Therapy, 1st Edition

https://cmtaisite.wordpress.com/category/a-case-study-of-the-movements-of-a-child-diagnosed-with-cerebral-palsy-within-the-context-of-dance-movement-psychotherapy-at-a-school-for-special-needs/

Non-Teaching Staff

Cajitan Fernandes

Lab Assistant

Experience in current position: 3 years