Dr. Vandita Dubey is a US-trained clinical psychologist based in the Kumaon Himalayas, India. She has been working with children, teenagers, individual adults and couples for many years. Dr Dubey began her journey in the field of mental health when she joined the Medical and Psychiatric Social Work program at TISS, Mumbai, in 1995. After completing the program, she worked with NGOs in Delhi and Mumbai in the area of child sexual abuse awareness, prevention and treatment but realised that she did not feel fully equipped to work with the victims or survivors of such traumatic experiences. Hence, she enrolled in a Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) program at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Chicago in 2001. This was an intense program of theoretical and practical training, which she completed in March 2006, and obtained a Psychologist License from the State of Indiana a year later. In 2006, she joined a psychotherapy practice in Chicago, but in 2007, she decided to move back to India. From 2008 to early 2015, she worked at her private practice in Gurgaon, India, where she worked with children, adults and couples. She supervised master’s- and doctoral-level mental health professionals.
Since April 2015, Dr Dubey has been providing individual psychotherapy/counselling to adults via the internet from her base in the Kumaon Himalayas. She also offers free mental health services to the local community.
She continues to consult and conduct workshops for schools and corporates on various aspects of mental health and wellbeing.
Dr. Dubey has written a book titled “Parenting in the age of Sexposure: Raising the precocious generation”, published by Rupa, which was released in July 2016 and got coverage in the media: Click here to read the article.
She also features as an expert on the mental health youtube channel Zen-Brain. Dr. Dubey is also one of the facilitators at the Himalayan Writing Retreat. She conducts the Healing and Self-Growth through Writing Workshop.
For more information, please visit www.himalayanwritingretreat.com