Dr Ashlesha Bagadia is a Perinatal Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist with over 24 years of clinical experience. After completing her medical training in India, she spent over a decade overseas, completing advanced training in the UK, Australia and Canada. These covered internationally accredited specialist training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Systemic Family Therapy, Mentalisation Based Treatment and a Fellowship in Perinatal Psychiatry & Women's Mental Health.

Dr Ashlesha moved to India 9 years ago and is now based at The Green Oak Initiative. She leads "Chiguru-thrive to 5", one of our flagship mental health services focusing on mental health care in pregnancy, post-partum and parent child bonding upto school age. She also heads our psychotherapy services and runs MBT - group therapy program for borderline personality disorder and collaborates with other clinicians to help manage similar conditions. She offers Systemic Family Therapy through our complex needs clinic which is available for low fee patients as well.

She is the director and co-founder of The Parc, our training partner, through which she conducts workshops and training courses on various therapeutic skills for counsellors, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists and mental health clinicians from any background.

She was recently elected as the President of SAMA- South Asian Marcé Association, which is a regional chapter of the International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health.