ABOUT :)
Hello everyone, I Megha Rathi am a Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) registered Clinical Psychologist catering to individuals across all age groups in Kolkata. I also am a certified graphologist and an academician. I pursued my M Phil in Clinical Psychology in 2015 from Institute of Psychiatry, Kolkata and completed my Masters in Applied Psychology with specialization in clinical and forensic psychology in 2013 from University of Calcutta. Currently, I am a PHD Scholar and Guest faculty in Calcutta University.
From my observation and experience, I have felt that mental health is a pressing concern but is often neglected due to ignorance or societal stigma. I believe that psychological intervention is a huge step towards improving mental health as it creates an awareness in the patient. Every individual deserves a life where one has power and control to take decisions. I believe in providing a path to my patients and enabling them with the confidence to walk through instead of being their crutch. I aspire to be a support system, their guiding light and simultaneously make them realise their inner potential to heal and grow as an induvidual. This belief in oneself, inculcating the incredible feeling of self-sufficiency is what I desire to foster in my patients through my professional endeavour and relentless dedication.
For a fact, I know that I am deeply passionate about my work and can selflessly work to bring my best foot forward in advocating the importance of mental health in community at large. I work closely in collaboration with reputed psychiatrists, special educators, occupational therapists and speech therapists to ensure overall and holistic improvement of my each client. To help you get a better understanding of your inner self and nurture yourself holistically, I am here for you!
Services :)
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS (ALL AGE GROUPS)
🙂 IQ. Assessment : An Interactive series of tests that measure an individual’s intellectual abilities and potential.
🙂 Personality Assessment : Know your underlying characteristics that determine your behaviour.
🙂 Neuropsychological Assessment : Find the cognitive consequences of brain damage, brain disease, and severe mental illness.
🙂 Diagnostic Psychometry including Projective Tests : Reveals hidden emotions and internal conflicts projected by the person into the test.
🙂 Career Counselling : Assess the intelligence, aptitute, interest and personality of an individual to help them make a right choice with their career.
FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
🙂 Cognitive Retraining : Focus on improving attention and memory capacity of the child.
🙂 Play Therapy : Use playtime to observe and gain insights into a child’s problems. It can then help the child explore emotions and deal with unresolved trauma
🙂 Family Therapy :Addresses the behaviours of all family members and the way these behaviours affect not only individual family members, but also relationships between family members and the family unit as a whole.
🙂 Behaviour Therapy :Attempts to change the maladaptive behaviour pattern through structured techniques.
🙂 Cognitive behaviour therapy: Structured, interactive and activity-based therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave.
🙂 Interpersonal Therapy : Improve the quality of your interpersonal relationships and social functioning to help reduce distress.
🙂 Parental Counselling : Aims at providing the required tools, guidance, knowledge and support to parents without them having to worry about being judged, in an unbiased, healthy manner. Through parental counselling, parents become more equipped to take care of their family, especially their children.
FOR ADULTS
🙂 Grief/Trauma Counselling-Intended to help the client grieve in a healthy manner, to understand and cope with the emotions they experience, and to ultimately find a way to move on.
🙂 Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy– Helps you identify self-defeating thoughts and feelings, challenge the rationality of those feelings, and replace them with healthier, more productive beliefs.
🙂 Existential Therapy– Uses a positive approach that applauds human capacities and aspirations while simultaneously acknowledging human limitations. It provides reasons for living to combat distress
🙂 Neuropsychiatric Rehabilitation– Cognitive tasks to increase the brain functioning and helping an individual to resort to normal functioning post significant brain stroke/injury.
🙂 Anger Management- The true goal of anger management is not to suppress feelings of anger, but rather to understand the message behind the emotion and express it in a healthy way without losing control.
🙂 Sleep Hygiene – Harness positive habits to make it easier to sleep soundly throughout the night and wake up well-rested.
🙂 Assertiveness Training– Social skills training to express oneself confidently and firmly without being aggressive.
🙂 Relaxation Techniques– Relaxation techniques can help you cope with everyday stress and with stress related to various health problems, such as heart disease and pain.
🙂 Cognitive Behaviour Therapy– Structured, interactive and activity-based therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave.
🙂 Couple Counselling – helps couple to recognize and resolve conflicts and improve their relationships.
🙂 Sex Therapy- Focuses on improving healthy sexual relationship between partners and also treatment of individual sex related issues.
🙂 Deaddiction Counselling – Counselling for addiction aims to help people change behaviours and attitudes around using a substance, as well as strengthening life skills and supporting other treatments.
🙂 Mindfulness based therapies – Increase your awareness of the thoughts, feelings, and actions that hinder your progress. When we are better able to do that, we can engage with those aspects of ourselves, learn to tweak our language, and choose how to respond.
🙂 Dialectical Behaviour Therapy- It has been shown to successfully help individuals develop strong, long-lasting skills to cope with borderline personality disorder and improve day-to-day functioning and social relationships.
🙂 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy – Help individuals recognize ways in which their attempts to suppress, manage, and control emotional experiences create challenges. By addressing these challenges, individuals can become better able to make room for values-based actions that support well-being
🙂 Interpersonal Therapy- Improve the quality of your interpersonal relationships and social functioning to help reduce distress.
Achievements :)
AWARDS
🙂 Megha Rathi was awarded by the President of India Medal for General Proficiency -2013.
🙂 University Gold Medal for M.Phil in Clinical Psychology from West Bengal University of Health Sciences.
🙂 Departmental First Prize 2013 from Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta.
🙂 A.N. Banerjee Memorial Award 2013.
🙂 Loreto Medal for Best student in Loreto College in 2011.
🙂 Ashok Kumar Rolling Trophy for balancing academics and extra-curricular activities in Loreto College, Kolkata in 2011.
🙂 Department Medal of Psychology Department, Loreto College for academic excellence in 2011.
🙂 Best Research Paper Award in NACIACP 2018, International Psychology Centenary Conference in 2015.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
🙂 Mandal, N., Guha, P. & Rathi, M. (2019). Factors Influencing Adherence to Prescribed Medication and Follow up Schedule in Patients with Psychiatric Disorders. IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 24(6), 42-52.
🙂 Tewary, C., Rathi, M. & Dasgupta G. (2019). Correlation between Psychopathology and Intellectual Performance in Boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 24(4), 13-17.
🙂 Rathi, M., Tewary, C. & Guha, P. (2019). Pre and Post Intervention Analysis of Children with Low IQ and ADHD Features. IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 24(5), 33-37.
🙂 Rathi, M. & Bhattacharya B. (2019). Socio demographic variables in patients with Dysthymia and Dissociative conversion disorder: A Comparative Study. Eastern Psychiatry Journal, 5(2), 20-24.
Chambers :)
CHAMBERS I’M AVAILABLE AT :
🙂 Caring Minds : 54A Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata 700025.
🙂 Marga Mind Wellness Studio : Bakul Bagan, Bhowanipore.
🙂 RB Diagnostics: Kankurgachi, Kolkata
🙂 The Clinic : Shyam Bazar, Kolkata
🙂 Mind Wellness : 68/C, Hazra Road. Kolkata 700019