Ranjitha Raj is the Founder of Mental Health Academy India and an Entrepreneur. She is a Mental Health Practitioner, Holistic Life Skills Trainer and a certified Counselor. She has a dual Master’s Degree in Life Sciences. An Ex-Corporate with one of the Big Four Accounting firm, turned Trainer/Counsellor/Mentor in the education industry with a burning purpose to bring difference in people’s lives by creating healthy minds.

Having experienced the ill effects of Mental illness first hand, she embarked on this journey to help others and make a difference in the field of mental health. She empowers people of all ages to achieve clarity, helping them break their limiting beliefs to visualize and achieve a larger infinite vision for their lives.

She is grateful to have empowered more than 3500+ lives and counting, via Counselling, Mentoring, Workshops, Trainings, Awareness programs and Support Groups.

Her mission is to create future community heroes with skills to spread Mental Health Awareness, Life Skills knowledge in both urban and rural India.

In her free time, she enjoys reading books and cooking. She's passionate about travelling and exploring new places. She loves nature in all its forms and it is reflected in her art.

Shalini Govindarajan is an enthusiastic, focused and performance-driven individual with over a decade of professional experience in vocational education and training, project management, quality and compliance management and in implementing learning and development design principles.

She is an Accredited Trainer and Assessor from Australia and has many credentials and certifications to her name in the field of mental health and training.

She has presented at various forums and conferences in Australia.

She loves Travelling and being a foodie, enjoys exploring different cuisines. She has a passion to reach out to people and deliver Mental health services to the community.

Sowmya Udupa is a Certified Counselor and a Life Skills Coach. Having completed the Beck Institute's "Essentials of CBT" course, she believes in an eclectic approach to counseling. Being an avid believer and promoter of mental health, she is actively involved in spreading mental health awareness through workshops, training and support groups making it available to people from all demographics. She has also worked as a special educator and conducted various training sessions in schools with respect to Developmental Intellectual difficulties. She is spearheading the MHAI Support group activities.

She is an enthusiastic person who enjoys reading and listening to music.

Ramya Shetty is a certified Counselor and a Life Skills coach. She has almost a decade of corporate experience and it was there she learnt the importance of Mental Health and Life Skills. Therefore, she decided to follow her passion in the field of Mental Health, spread awareness and make Mental Health knowledge available for all. She has conducted numerous life skills trainings, programs in various schools and has been providing individual counselling too.

In her free time, she loves listening to music, dancing and interacting with people of various backgrounds and cultures.

G.K. Mairuga is our Rural Program Coordinator at Mental Health Academy India. He has done his certification in Journalism and has written numerous articles in various Kannada magazines / Newspapers. His knowledge and interest in the subject of Psychology and Kannada literature has helped to translate and design our rural mental health program in regional language which is helping us to reach the rural masses. He is an integral part of our rural outreach program.

His interests are Reading books, Psychology and Philosophy.

Rohan Somkuwar is a core team member of MHAI behind all program operations. His continuous quest to learn and gain new knowledge in the field of marketing, along with his creative inputs are helping Mental Health Academy India in designing, content writing, Brand Management and Marketing.

He has a Master’s degree–M.Sc. in Life Sciences and an MBA with dual specialization - Marketing and Finance. He has almost a decade of work experience in multinational companies like EY and PWC.

His interests are Photography and Travelling. His quality of being compassionate for the needy has seamlessly integrated with the overall vision and mission mantra of MHAI.

Dr. Rajaram is a Family Physician with a deep-rooted contact with community and he understands the needs of the community and how to bring about our vision in that setting. He is a well-respected Medical Practitioner serving tirelessly for over 39 years. His ideas and experience are invaluable in our endeavors.

He is a part of the team validating the medical aspects of the program materials.

His interests are reading and listening to music.

Dr. Pradeep Javedar is a Medical Health Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the health care and Pharmacovigilance industry and teaching in Medical / Dental Schools. Skilled in Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Pharmacovigilance, Psychiatry, and Healthcare. Strong healthcare services professional with an MD in Pharmacology from and an interest in Psychopharmacology.

His early training in clinical psychiatry and his passion to deliver services in rehabilitation psychiatry instilled in him the importance of care of the mentally ill outside of a hospital setting. His experience and training in clinical pharmacology will help with advice regarding medications in mental health care.

He is a part of the team validating the medical aspects of the program materials.

He is an explorer at heart, voracious reader, a passionate photographer and digital media creator.