Leadership Team
Who Leads the Clinical Direction at Zen Mind?
Experienced professionals guiding ethical and evidence-based mental healthcare.
The Leadership Team at Zen Mind consists of senior mental health professionals with extensive academic qualifications and decades of clinical expertise. They shape clinical governance, ethical standards, structured supervision, and evidence-based programme development, ensuring consistency across all services.
Through trauma-informed frameworks and scientifically grounded practice, the leadership maintains professional accountability and contextual responsiveness to Kerala’s evolving mental health needs. Their role strengthens service quality, supports team development, and ensures that every intervention remains clinically rigorous, ethically sound, and outcome-focused.
Anjana Pradeep, MSc
Consultant Psychologist
Anjana Pradeep is a Consultant Psychologist with an M.Sc. in Psychological Studies with Mental Health (BPS Accredited) from the University of Aberdeen, UK. With over three years of clinical and community-based practice across India and the UK, she brings an internationally informed and culturally grounded perspective to therapy. Her work spans trauma and complex trauma, emotional dysregulation, anxiety and mood disorders, grief, attachment concerns, and neurocognitive mental health, supporting adolescents, adults, couples, and geriatric clients.
Her therapeutic practice is integrative and trauma-informed, drawing from CBT, DBT, ACT, mindfulness-based approaches, and person-centred therapy. She combines emotional depth with structured skill-building, ensuring therapy remains both reflective and action-oriented. Fluent in English, Malayalam, and Tamil, she offers sessions online and offline. Anjana’s work is centred on strengthening resilience, restoring emotional balance, and helping clients build a stable and confident internal foundation for lasting psychological wellbeing.
Nikhita Nair
Psychologist
Nikhita Nair holds an MA and MSc in Psychology from the University of Bolton, Manchester. With over three years of experience across clinical, educational, and therapeutic settings, she has supported children and young people with diverse psychological and neurodevelopmental needs. Her areas of expertise include ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), learning disabilities, emotional dysregulation, behavioural difficulties, trauma-informed support, low self-esteem, adjustment concerns, borderline personality vulnerabilities, and relationship issues.
Her therapeutic style is integrative and strengths-based, drawing from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Behaviour Therapy, DBT, and trauma-informed approaches. She works with children, adolescents, young adults, and also supports parents through guidance and psychoeducation. Sessions are offered both online and offline in English and Malayalam. Nikhita fosters a safe, collaborative space focused on building emotional awareness, practical coping skills, and steady psychological growth grounded in evidence-based care.
Midhun Ramesh
Consultant Psychologist
Midhun Ramesh holds a Master’s in Clinical Psychology and is certified as an ABAT Level 1 (Applied Behaviour Analysis Technician). With two years of experience across clinical settings, schools, and Child Development Centres, he supports children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families facing diverse psychological and developmental concerns.
His areas of expertise include special needs support, emotional and behavioural challenges in children, anxiety, depression, trauma-related concerns, addiction management, relationship difficulties, and career transitions. Midhun integrates evidence-based approaches such as ABA, CBT, DBT, mindfulness-based interventions, relapse prevention strategies, and trauma-informed care. Grounded in a scientifically validated and trauma-informed framework, his practice emphasises psychological safety, structured case formulation, and collaborative skill-building. Sessions are available online and offline in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and English. His work focuses on strengthening emotional regulation, resilience, and adaptive coping for sustainable psychological growth.
B R Sai Sowbharni
Consultant Psychologist & Trainee Dance Movement Therapy
B R Sai Sowbharni holds an MSc in Applied Psychology and brings focused clinical exposure through training at premier institutions including NIMHANS, DRDO, and the Government Mental Health Centre, Oolampara. With experience across structured therapeutic settings, she has worked with diverse emotional and behavioural concerns affecting children, adolescents, and adults.
Her areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, stress and adjustment concerns, emotional regulation difficulties, anger management, procrastination, self-esteem challenges, relationship concerns, and young adult mental health. She practises Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), MBSR, and Emotionally Focused Therapy, integrating structured techniques with reflective exploration. Sai Sowbharni works collaboratively, creating a safe, non-judgemental space focused on building resilience and practical coping skills. Sessions are available online and offline in Malayalam, English, and Tamil, supporting sustainable psychological growth and self-discovery.
Dr. Krishnan Gireesh
Senior Mental Health Professional
Dr. Krishnan Gireesh holds an M.Phil in Medical & Social Psychology and a Ph.D, bringing over 38 years of clinical experience in delivering structured, evidence-based psychological care. His extensive practice spans diverse mental health settings, offering depth, precision, and compassionate professionalism.
He specialises in the assessment and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, anxiety and depressive disorders, relationship and couple distress, sexual dysfunctions, addiction management, and crisis intervention. His therapeutic work integrates Trauma-Focused Therapy, DBT, CBT, ACT, EFT, and structured Couple Therapy, grounded in trauma-informed and scientifically validated frameworks. Dr. Gireesh works with adults and adolescents through in-person and online consultations. His transdiagnostic and collaborative approach prioritises psychological safety, ethical clarity, and tailored intervention planning. Sessions are conducted in Malayalam, English, and Tamil, focusing on sustainable resilience, emotional stability, and long-term mental wellbeing.
How Does Strong Leadership Benefit Your Care?
Experienced leadership ensures that every service at Zen Mind is guided by clinical expertise, ethical governance, and evidence-based standards. When senior professionals oversee programme design, supervision, and intervention frameworks, clients receive care that is consistent, structured, and professionally accountable.
This translates into clear treatment pathways, reliable assessment standards, and well-supervised therapeutic practice. Strong leadership strengthens team competence, safeguards confidentiality, and maintains quality across all services. The result is psychological care that is not only compassionate, but also scientifically grounded and sustainably effective.
