Dr. Sudha Shashwati is an Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of Behavioural Sciences (JIBS), O.P Jindal University. She has over 6 years of teaching and research experience in premier colleges of the University of Delhi, as well as close to a decade’s experience in conducting psychotherapy and counseling. She is a trauma-informed (Russ Harris, Australia) and queer affirmative therapist (Mariwala Health Initiative, India). She is one of less than 20 therapists from India listed on the official Acceptance and Commitment Therapy collective- a practice and research community for therapists across the world engaged in trans-diagnostic, process-based psychotherapy. She is a ‘comprehensive sexuality educator’ (Taarshi, India) and also a consultant psychologist for mental health initiatives. She has led community mental health initiatives of multiple Delhi-based NGOs, developing and executing training programs for school teachers, school counselors and psychology interns, as well as school students of various age groups on wide-ranging topics. She is routinely invited as an expert for training in mental health capacity building and qualitative research methods.

She was the university gold medallist during her bachelor’s (University of Delhi), won the ‘best research for clinical psychology’ award in her master’s (TISS, Mumbai), and was a UGC NET-JRF research scholar. Her doctoral research was on masculinities and femininities in modern India that included a first-of-its-kind daily diary study on how sexism is confronted by young women. She enjoys conversations on existentialism, cultural psychology, and feminism.