Poornima Mahindru, is RCI registered clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with over 12 years of clinical experience. She completed her M.Phil in Clinical Psychology from prestigious Manipal University. She started her professional journey as a clinical psychologist at NIMHANS and worked there for 2 years. Since 2016, she has been practicing in private sector with the experience in curating the department of clinical psychology and spearheading the team of psychologists at ANR Hospital and Mindplus Healthcare - neuropsychiatric hospitals in Punjab.

She is working as a senior consultant clinical and perinatal psychologist with The Green Oak Initiative. She specializes in working with the clients dealing with mental health issues during pregnancy and post partum period. She works with individuals who are struggling with dilemmas while planning to conceive, going through IVF process and struggling with anxiety and depression during their perinatal period.

She is a trauma informed and queer friendly therapist and follows a client centric attachment based approach. She has an extensive experience working with adults diagnosed with personality disorders. She has been trained in Mentalization Based Treatment by Prof. Anthony Bateman, a specific form of therapeutic intervention for Borderline Personality Disorder. She also specializes in psychological assessments and psychotherapy for clients with the history of trauma and clients struggling with emotional dysregulation and self harm.

In addition to her clinical work, she is involved in research, training and clinical supervision of mental health professionals. She is one of the clinical supervisors of our team and also run reflective group supervision for psychologists and counsellors. She had been associated with UNICEF research project focusing on maternal mental health. She is also actively involved in training and teaching by being a lead faculty in PARC- an organisation that focuses on advanced training for mental health professionals.