Shabari has a Masters degree in Counselling with a Specialisation in Family and Couples Therapy from Old Dominion University in Virginia and a Bachelors degree from Cornell University. She moved to Bangalore in 2009, and since then has been a lecturer at Montfort College, a school counsellor at Stonehill International School and is currently the Program Manager at Parivarthan Counselling Centre. She has been practising at AMGH since 2018. She sees individual adults, couples, families and teenagers.