Handmade with Love

Pallavi is a creative arts therapist who works with young people and adults experiencing mental health concerns, diverse abilities, and their caregivers. She completed her training in drama and movement therapy in the UK and arts-based therapy in India. Her practice uses various art forms to facilitate creative processes for psycho-social and compassion-based interventions to integrate creativity and imagination in learning spaces, for therapy and healing. Besides private practice, she runs community-based projects with grassroots organisations and institutions in urban and rural settings in South India. She is on the executive committee of Drama-Therapy India Association. She is keen to explore research, education, and indigenous approaches to mental health and well-being with trauma-informed, queer affirmative, neurodivergent-friendly, decolonised, and anti-oppression practices.

Born in Delhi, and raised in Bengaluru, Ketaki began her career as an Educator for young minds in the field of Visual Arts, with an experience of over 8+ years. She is a self-taught artist who believes in bringing out her originality and self-reflection process, through her art pieces. Her passion, compassion, and empathy inspired her to switch her career, and smoothly transition into an Art Therapist. She has completed her Diploma in Art Therapy from Asha The Hope. Ketaki recently completed her MFA in Art Therapy from MIT-ADT University, Pune. Her role model being her late grandfather with Alzheimer’s led her to specialize in, and serve the elderly population with neurocognitive disorders and age-related issues. Alongside, she is an animal activist who rescues abandoned, and abused animals giving them a better life for the future. She currently lives in Bengaluru with her family and eight dogs.