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• Dr. Meenakshi Banerjee trained as a Clinical Psychologist at NIMHANS. She completed her two-year clinical training in 2015. Her dissertation for the MPhil was on adapting and implementing group narrative therapy for adolescents in school setting. For her PhD, she chose to study Affective Neuropsychology at the Cognitive Neuroscience Centre, NIMHANS. She studied and developed a cognitive control training program for neurocognitive deficits in depression. The thesis was a Randomised Controlled Study to analyse the effectiveness of the remediation program. As Junior Consultant at the Clinical Psychology Department, she taught and supervised MPhil Trainee Psychologists for assessment and management of clinical cases from psychiatry, neurology and neurosurgery departments. She also managed neuropsychology assessment and rehabilitation for the Geriatric Clinic at NIMHANS.

  Post PhD, she has been involved in research projects, with the Positive Psychology Unit at NIMHANS.

  She has also worked with nonprofit organisations like Sanjivani Society for Mental Health and Aarohi and for private clinics like Cadabam’s Mindtalk and Reach Clinic.