Worldwide Support
Various counselors offer one on one, and couple to couple, marriage education or personal counseling sessions online, in person and by phone.
Please expect professional fees. Fees vary per counselors and services.
Counselors Residing in North America
Arcana Siddhi dasi
Personal & Couples
Counselor
Arcana siddhi dasi
I worked in community mental health as a psychotherapist for twelve years gaining invaluable skills along the way. I furthered my training by taking an intensive two year certification in family and couple’s therapy. During the years working in the clinic, I started a private practice working mainly with devotees. In 2003, my husband, son and I moved to North Carolina and I have continued building my private practice.
My husband and I met each other in 1988 at the temple in Potomac, Maryland. He was handsome, intelligent and most importantly, serious about his sadhana. We shared a desire to help devotees coming from dysfunctional backgrounds to become more emotionally healthy and balanced to support their efforts as spiritual practitioners. Shortly after getting married in 1990, we started counseling couples together and presenting seminars and workshops to the devotee community. We also contributed articles on a regular basis to Back to Godhead Magazine. In 2002 we connected with Krsnanandini dd, the founder of the North American Grhastha Vision Team, and joined her efforts to help strengthen the grhastha ashrama in Srila Prabhupada’s movement.
Partha
dasa
PREMARITAL & MARITAL
EDUCATOR
Partha dasa
Partha dasa married a beautiful, kind, nurturing, and devotional girl in the last term of high school in 1971. Upon graduating, they left on a spiritual quest which culminated in taking initiation from Srila Prabhupada in 1973. Several days after taking second initiation, Partha dasa became head pujari for Sri Sri Radha Madana-Mohana, in Vancouver, Canada, and remained so for close to 20 years. He is a former board member and trustee for ISKCON Vancouver and has been involved with the Grihastha Vision Team since 2004. He and his wife have facilitated GVT seminars in South Africa, Ireland, England, India, Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil, Chile, Russia, many European countries along with Canada and the US. He is solemnized to perform legal marriages by the Province of British Columbia, which he does after sufficiently counseling the couple. He is certified by the Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute to administer their ‘Vaishnava 108 Inventory and Premarital and Marriage Spiritual Strengths-based Relationship Program©,’ along with skill building courses by various other marital therapists, including a Level One Gottman Clinical Couples Therapy.
Partha dasa has three creative children, six fun grandchildren and is still married to the beautiful, kind, nurturing, devotional girl he met 50 years ago. He currently resides with his wife and family in Saranagati Dhama, Canada. For recreation, he chases bears out of his garden in the summer and does telemark skiing down steep mountain slopes in the winter.
Uttama
dasi
Premarital & marital
educatOR
Uttama dasa
Uttama dasi was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1973, along with her husband Partha dasa. They have three children and seven grandchildren. She has performed a variety of services through the years—pujari work, head Deity seamstress, teaching, and management. She has taken relationship education training from Prepare and Enrich Canada©, Dasi Ziyad Family Institute, and Compassion Power©. She also has Gottman Level Two Clinical Couples training and is a Graduate of The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy Training under Ellyn Bader Ph.D. at The Couples Institute.
She really enjoys working with youth, teaching them the Bhagavad-gita and relationship skills. Her present passion is traveling with her husband and facilitating grihastha workshops. (Give them a call!) At present they live in their forest home in Saranagati Village in British Columbia, Canada, where they do premarital education for devotees via Internet conferencing, while eating home grown veggies.
Casey
Fiume
Mental Health Counselor
& Coach
Casey Fiume
BIO Casey Fiume, M.S. is a mental health professional with over 10 years experience facilitating healing and growth. Casey provides a warm and empowering space to help people connect deeply with themselves and create more of what they are wanting in their lives. She supports others to get to the core of what may be blocking them from living a life full of depth and vitality in devotional service. She is passionate about the process of personal and spiritual transformation.
She usually does a free consultation with new clients and there she will discuss the fees.
WhatsApp, Call or text 786-306-2727
Website: www.balancedhealing.org
Krishna Prana
dasi
MA Counselor & Psychologist
Krishna Prana dasi
Krishna Prana devi dasi I attained my Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Trinity Western University. I have been working in the mental health field since 2013 in a variety of capacities and I currently hold positions at Shoreline Counselling, as well as a Stopping the Violence (STV) counselling position at Ishtar Women’s Resource Centre. I have experience working with various issues, such as anxiety, depression, relationship issues (couples counselling), self-esteem and identity issues. One of my specializations is working with women who have suffered from intimate partner violence and abuse as well as working with individuals of other genders who have suffered from various types of trauma. Being able to open up and work through one’s pain can be a scary thing for many, which I can relate to from personal experience. On top of my professional training, the commitment I have made to understanding and working through my own traumatic experiences has helped me to develop personal insight into abusive relationships. In addition, it has helped me immensely in developing a sense of compassion both toward myself and others. This in turn has inspired me to strive to be an outlet of security and trust whereby my clients can enter into both their places of darkness and light with strength and self-compassion. I have done post-graduate training in several different evidence-based therapy modalities including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), AEDP for Couples and Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy. I draw mostly from relational/experiential models, that involve emotion and body-based techniques, as well as elements of cognitive-behavioural work. I am a co-founder of a group called, “Calming Body and Mind: Skills for Coping with Trauma”, which is an educational and experiential group for those suffering from symptoms and/or effects of trauma and would like to learn coping skills for managing them. As such, it is of utmost importance to me to facilitate an experience to help clients understand how difficult life situations have affected them as well as assisting them in acquiring practical tools that they can use to move through life. I enjoy working with both individuals and couples in a collaborative way that honours my clients in their current situation while using my professional experience to come up with solution-focused strategies to move forward. One of my main goals is to facilitate a safe environment made up of trust and authenticity. I feel privileged in being able to walk alongside my clients during their times of need, as well as being there to celebrate their important milestones along the way. I look forward to being able to accompany you on your journey at whatever point you invite me to do so.
Revati
dasi
Marriage &
Family Therapist
Revati dasi
Revati is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She works with all types of issues, including trauma, depression, anxiety, and substance abuse, as well as relationship, interpersonal, and spiritual issues. She can do internet counseling for most issues.
Rambhoru dasi
Counselor &
Life Coach
Rambhoru dasi
Rambhoru Dasi ACBSP aspires to serve the Vaishnava Community as a Spiritual Care-provider/Director, Counselor, and Life Coach. Devotees can meet her in-person for counseling and consultation at the ISKCON of DC, Potomac, MD, Temple Saturdays in the Bhakti Lounge from 1pm to 4pm and weekdays via Skype, Zoom, or Whatsap. All appointments must be pre-scheduled. If you wish to meet with Rambhoru Dasi, either in-person or online, please contact her at rambhoru@yahoo.com or Facebook messenger. Suggested donations of $1 per minute are appreciated.
Rambhoru Brinkmann (Rambhoru Dasi ACBSP) is an ACPE Certified Clinical Pastoral Educator (www.acpe.edu) and Board Certified Chaplain (www.professionalchaplains.org). She has a Master of Divinity (M.Div) degree (www.cst.edu) and a Master of Science (MS) degree in Patient Counseling (www.vcu.edu). She is a certified Healing Touch practitioner (Level 4 ) and a Therapeutic Harpist. She was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1974.
Rambhoru is certified in three different models of Grief Support group facilitation:
1) Grief Recovery Method; 2) Our House Grief Support Group Facilitation; and 3) Beyond Loss Grief Support Group Facilitation. She can provide grief support for individuals and groups.
Rambhoru specializes in:
• Crisis Counseling for people experiencing sudden life changes regarding health, relationships, home, loss, etc.
• A skilled Spiritual Director who assists a person in finding meaning and purpose in the midst of their current life circumstances.
• Life Coaching for those seeking to identify their goals in life and becoming empowered to reach them.
• Death, Dying and End of Life Care.
• Workshops, seminars and group discussions on the Art and Science of Compassionate Spiritual Care-giving to those experiencing spiritual and emotional pain.
Radha
Gaasbeek
Marriage Counselor
& Life Coach
Radha Gaasbeek
Not currently accepting new clients.
Radha Gaasbeek, M.Ed/Ed.S. (She/Her)
Registered Marriage and Family Therapist Intern (RMFTI)
Hi, my name is Radha and I am grateful that you are here.
I know being here is not always easy, and I applaud your courage in showing up.
I would like to begin by sharing a bit about myself with you. As a person, my core values include: cultivating a life of compassion (offered to myself and others), intentionally engaging in what I do with a wholehearted spirit of service, learning to trust grace, and interacting from a place of genuineness, integrity, and humility as I embrace my humanity
and the humanity of those around me. I strive to move through life as a practice of holding both the light and the dark, and I am consistently bringing myself back to choosing the path of continued learning, healing, and growth in all that I do.
Clinically speaking, I am a strengths-based, developmentally oriented, trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, LGBTQ+ affirming, relational counselor. My counseling philosophy is deeply humanistic and informed by my personal spiritual values. I have been told by clients that they experience me as warm, empathic, affirming, good humored, and able to challenge them gently. In my role as a therapist, I have experienced firsthand just how much healing lies in the quality of the therapeutic relationship; this guides me to actively prioritize our process of building trust and safety in order for you to access that healing. Along these lines, I consciously support my clients in slowing down, connecting to their emotions and bodies, and ultimately, coming back home to their true Selves.
Working through a lens of developmental psychology, I primarily integrate healing modalities rooted in Attachment theory, Structural Family Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, and the Enneagram. Other therapeutic orientations I draw from include Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy, Gottman Couples Counseling, Mindfulness, and the 12-Step Model of Recovery. My aim is to empower couples, families, and individuals to begin to move through their layers of conditioning, heal their relationships with
themselves and their loved ones, and live life with a greater sense of choice, self-awareness, emotional security, and self-compassion.
If my style speaks to you, I would love to schedule a (free) 15-minute phone consultation to see if we would be a good fit.
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You can reach me here:
352-443-5103
Radha@fear-lesstherapy.com
Jahnava
dasi
Life Coach &
Marriage counselor
Jahnava Dasi
Formal Education
- 2018 -2019 Levels one through three, Marriage counselor training with The Gottman Institute
- 2016 – Life coach certification with Tony Robins and Chloe Madanes
- 2009 – Life Coach Certification with renowned career and life coach Laura Berman Fortgang of LBF Intercoach, Inc.
- 1982 – 1984 Psychology student at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.
Relevant ISKCON Educational Courses
- 1996 – Listening, speaking and resolving conflicts with Braja Bihari Das
- 1997 – VTE Teacher Training course with Rasamandala Das
- 2015 – Grihastha Vision Team workshop in Sri Mayapur Dhama
Relevant classes/workshops taught
- 1998 – 1999 VIHE Listening, Speaking and Resolving conflicts – Vrndavan
- 2016 – Six Human Needs workshop – Australia, India and U.S.
- 2019 – Seven keys to making relationships work – Argentina, South Africa
- 2020 -The Four behaviors that destroy Marriages – Globally
Serving for thirty years in Srila Prabhupada’s movement teaching, preaching, coaching, and counseling.
Counselors Residing in India
Sridevi dasi
Personal, couples, family &
blended family counselor
Sridevi devi dasi
Radharani dasi
MA Clinical
Psychologist
Radharani Dasi
Mrs. Pavitra Shanbhag MA (Radharani devi dasi) is a certified Clinical Psychologist living in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She is qualified to counsel clients with anxiety, depression, OCD, low self esteem, etc. She has also received specialized training in RECBT and other courses and can provide counselling services for relationship issues pertaining to couples, pareting and adolescents. She has been practicing for over 20 years.
She has also conducts sessions on Regulation/Management of Emotions (REBT), for all age groups (especially Couples, Parents, school-going children, Adolescents, Youth, School teachers, and working professionals too).
Ushamati dasi
MA Clinical Psychologist &
BA PSYCHOLOGist
Ushamati dasi
My Profile
Personal Details
Usha Gaonkar
Date of Birth – 4
th January 1971.
Mira Road East
Academic Details
● Completed B.A in Psychology from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University in 1990
● Completed M.A in Clinical Psychology from IGNOU, Delhi.
● Completed a 2-week certificate course in Basic Counseling and Communication Skills
from IPH (Institute of Psychological Health)
● Have completed a 5-day skill training workshop on “Counseling Adolescents – Issues and
Challenges” from IPH
● Certified in REBT for adults (40 hours of intense training and practical application)
● Certified in REBT with children and adolescents – 3 days of intensive practical application
● Attended a 1-day workshop on Understanding and Explaining Child Sexual Abuse by IPH.
● Attended the Advanced Child Protection Training Seminar conducted by ISKCON GBC in
Govardhan Eco Village for 3 days.
● Completed 2-day course of psychometric assessments for personality disorders
(Rorschach, MMPI, MCMI)
● Completed 5- day workshop on identifying learning disabilities and autism.
● Part of the Child Care and protection initiative for ISKCON Chowpatty.
● Attended a workshop on understanding and managing substance abuse.
Professional Details
Currently working with Bhaktivedanta Hospital and Research Institute as a consulting clinical
psychologist for the past 4 years.
My profile involves working closely with the Psychiatrist in treating patients with clinical
disorders like anxiety, depression, OCD, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, etc. I also handle
couples, adolescents and relationships counseling.
Use of CBT as well as REBT for therapeutic purpose. Facilitate psychometric testing as and when required.
From June 2013 to April 2017 – As a school counselor for Gopal’s Garden High School.
Counsel the parents and children on any behavioral or emotional concerns
Help in the assessment and guidance of weak students.
Conduct workshops for teachers and other staff on child care and protection,
Conduct workshop on Prevention of Sexual Harassment to create awareness in employees of
the school.
Interact with teachers to get regular classroom feedback.
Conduct life skills classes for standard 7,8,9 &10.
Conduct workshops for children on life skills and for parents on child protection, childcare and
nurturing across Maharashtra
Rasika Radhe dasi
Psychiatrist, Hypnotherapist,
& Reiki Healer
Rasika Radhe dasi
Dr Srividya Janani (Rasika Radhe Devi Dasi): I am a Psychiatrist by profession, also trained in other therapies like hypnosis, Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and energy medicine including Reiki. I have grown up in ISKCON since age of 4years and disciple of HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj. My parents are also disciples of Maharaj. I have been married since 2017 and have encountered couples having disputes with practical application of Krishna Conscious philosophy. Hence, having a deep understanding of conflicts from professional and devotional purview; I wish to offer my services in those areas. My goal is to facilitate couples to have deep fulfilling relationship and enhance their overall quality of life.
Europe
Sri Kama dasi
Marriage & personal counselor,
premarital educator
Sri Kama dasi, ACBSP
I am a qualified HPC and BACP registered counsellor and drama therapist who has been practicing for over 20 years. I have worked with a variety of issues such as relationship difficulties, low self esteem, personal issues, depression, anxiety, bereavement, and other problems that can get in the way of service and life. I work with individuals, couples and groups. As a parent and grandparent I have had a lot of life experience that can help with the counseling process. I see counseling as a way of becoming more aware and conscious of oneself. “First be conscious then be Krsna conscious”
Australia
Apurva Madhuri
counselor, therapist, & yoga teacher
Apurva Madhuri
Annabel (Apurva Madhuri) is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (BSW, MSW), counsellor/therapist and yoga teacher with 8 years experience working with people from a diverse range of backgrounds and circumstances. Annabel offers therapy for anyone experiencing challenges with managing their mental health, emotions, relationships, loss and grief, memories from the past, drug/alcohol use etc. She provides a safe space to set and work on any personal goals that someone might have including physical, mental, emotional, social, career and spiritual.
Annabel has worked extensively in culturally and linguistically diverse communities both in Australia and in South Asia. She currently works with young adults experiencing the impacts of complex trauma and adversity and with people experiencing challenges relating to their identity and sense of self. Annabel works from a healing-focussed, person-centred perspective, honouring the wisdom people have about their own lives and what is of value to them.
Some things that Annabel considers important in therapy are:
– having a safe, private, non-threatening space where change happens at your own pace;
– feeling heard and understood by the therapist, acknowledging the impact that forces outside yourself can have on you;
– understanding how your unique body and mind responds to stress;
– exploring, with curiosity, different ways to get ‘unstuck’;
– setting flexible goals…with the option to throw them out the window;
– creating space to open possibilities for new ways of being in the world.
Annabel has a Masters degree in counselling and draws from her education in narrative therapy, internal family systems therapy (IFS), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and somatic practice. She also has over 13 years of daily yoga/meditation practice and study. Annabel is committed to ongoing learning and evolving as a therapist and as a human!
EXPERIENCE
Counsellor/caseworker with Speak Out Dual Diagnosis team at Weave Youth and Community Services, Waterloo (2017-2020). Annabel provided trauma-informed, holistic counselling and casework interventions to young people aged 12-28 experiencing challenges with alcohol and/or drug use and mental health.
Yoga and meditation teacher (2010-present)
Social Work Officer at Nepal School of Social Work, Kathmandu, Nepal (2015)
Caseworker with Australian Red Cross’ Asylum Seeker Assistance Scheme (2013-15), providing holistic, trauma-informed casework and advocacy for people seeking asylum in the Sydney community
areas of interest
Annabel is interested in anyone who wants to take some time out to reflect, learn, explore, grow and heal. Her particular areas of specialisation include LGBTQIA+, identity, relationships, grief and loss, post-traumatic healing and growth, depression and anxiety, social justice, spirituality, personal development, managing addictive thoughts/actions, managing self harm and suicidal ideation.
qualifications
Bachelor in Social Work (UNSW, 2012)
Master in Social Work Counselling (UNSW, 2018)
Accredited Yoga Teacher (200 hours, Power Living Australia, 2010)
availability
Mondays & Wednesday 8am-5pm
Video sessions on other days
Australia
Nitai Yash Tibrewal
counselor, therapist, & yoga teacher
Nitai Yash Tibrewal Bio
Nitai is a licensed mental health professional based in Gold Coast, Australia. He is an experienced accredited mental health therapist providing psychological therapies. Nitai currently works for a complex trauma service and is skilled at working with children, adolescents, adults and families. His past experience includes working at an Early Psychosis Clinic.Nitai is trained in modalities such as CBT, DBT, EMDR, Circle of Security, Theraplay, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Nitai also has done level 1 training in Emotional Focused Therapy and is aiming to provide relationship counselling in the future. Nitai works from an attachment focused, strength based and trauma informed background with focus on a holistic approach to health. Nitai grew up in a devotee family and has an understanding and appreciation of the philosophy.
Contact him at nitait9@gmail.com or What’s App +61 435 775 011
Russia
Uttama dasi (Rus.)
personal, couple, & premarital counselor
Uttama dasi
Оксана Волкова-Чудаева – аюрведический психолог, практикующий психотерапевт,
автор проекта “Территория Счастливых Женщин”
Ещё со школы интересовалась аюрведой, психологией, счастливыми семейными отношениями. С
1997 года начала посещать на разные обучающие программы по психологии, личностному росту.
С 1999 года начала работать в центре позитивной психологии «Разумный Путь» помощником
психолога, а потом и психологом и психотерапевтом.
Официальное высшее образование и повышение квалификации:
МГУПИ – квалификация «Менеджер по специальности управление персоналом».
МПСУ – квалификация «Клинический психолог. R/H».
АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ ИНСТИТУТ ВЕДИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ Доктора Дэвида Фроули –
квалификацию «Консультант по аюрведическому здоровью»
Дополнительное образование:
Групповая и индивидуальная ИРПси-терапия – Вера Леонтьевна Савеличева
Семейная терапия – Сюзанна Цельмер
Семейные отношения – Давид Джордж Мустерер и Марлин Джоан Мустерер
Телесно-ориентированная терапия – Андрей Минченков
Ораторское искусство. Эффективные коммуникации – Радислав Гандапас
Психогенетика – Наталья Афанасьевна Цветкова
Сексология – Анна Николаевна Котенёва
Дыхательная терапия – Игорь Лютый
Тайм-менеджмент – Глеб Архангельский
Лидерство – Фрэнк Карделл
NLP. DST. Коучинг – Фрэнк Пьюсселик
Психодрама. Гештальт-терапия – Нукуну
Академия природного голоса – Владимир Багрунов
Сайт: https://www.oksanavolkova-chudaeva.ru/
Инстаграм: https://www.instagram.com/schactje_zhenshchiny
