Benika is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist with over seven years of experience working across different age groups and concerns. She is registered with the Rehabilitation Council of India and the UK’s Health and Care Professions Council.

Benika’s approach to therapy is integrative and reflective. Shaped by her life experiences and academic training, she understands her approach to therapy and mental health as historically informed, relationally shaped, practically grounded, and enriched by Eastern and indigenous ways of knowing.

Growing up in a family displaced during the Partition, Benika developed a sensitivity to loss, resilience, and the ways history and context shape emotional life. Personal experiences further deepened her appreciation of relationships as influencing how we relate to experiences and ourselves, leading her to view therapy as a safe and attuned relational space for healing.

Her academic journey includes Bachelor’s and Master’s at the University of Delhi and an M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology from NIMHANS, Bangalore, where she developed extensive clinical skills and a systemic lens of mental health through specialised postings in Behaviour Therapy, Family Therapy, Psychiatric Services, and Addiction Care.

After private practice and community work with marginalized women, Benika pursued a Master’s in Counselling at the University of Edinburgh, which supported a decolonial lens in her work (questioning dominant western models) and deepened her integration of relational psychodynamic and person-centred approach engaging with how early life patterns shape inner worlds, relationships, and trusting the innate human capacity for growth.

Benika views personal therapy, supervision as essential ethical pillars of her practice, helping her stay attuned to herself and calibrate her work thoughtfully with diverse clients. She continually attends trainings including Emotion-Focused Therapy (Level One), Relational Gestalt Therapy, Outdoor Therapy, and Savitri Painting. Outside of work, she enjoys monotonous chores, spending time with family, and singing to her two dogs, Papi and Chulo.

She currently offers online therapy and is based between Delhi and Bangalore.