We are constantly looking to collaborate with Individuals, Media Houses, Organizations, Support Groups (and many more!) who share our vision and passion for mental health. If you’d like to collaborate with us on anything at all, or if you’d like to tell us about your mental health journey, send us an email on our email address. We’d love to know you and hear your story.

If you’re a counsellor or an event facilitator, look at the corresponding sections below to know the process of reaching out to us. 🙂

Currently, this entire initiative is offered free of cost to both you, and the profiles we list. We do not charge counsellors (and other profiles) a fee if you reach out to them through TheMindClan.com.

We only request them and individuals who use the platform to let us know how we’ve impacted them.

To sustain the venture and ourselves, we work with corporate organizations to help make mental health a priority at the workplace. It’s their support that allows us to continue offering our curated lists for free to the masses.

Additionally, we organize many public events and sell resources to sustain our platform. In the future, we may also offer display ads, or sell products on the platform. Though we’re still working on it, these would be additional to what we do currently.

Providing you with the right tools to mental health care would always be a priority.

One’s options for mental health care can look different from another’s. Some prefer starting their mental health journey by visiting a counsellor, while others may need access to helpful resources or communities at that very time.

By offering you multiple choices for mental health care, we hope to let you choose where you’d like your journey to start from.

We work to ‘aggregate’ the mental health space for counsellors, support groups, helplines, events and resources that align with our values, and list them on our platform for you to choose from.

You receive not only basic information about them, but also their responses to questions about their journey, work and background to help you make the ideal choice.

We are here to bridge the connections, and help in reducing the intimidation and stigma around caring for one’s mental health.

When one decides to start caring for their mental health, they often lack access to supportive systems around them. "Whom do I go to for support?", "What do I say?", "If not counselling, what else can I do?" are some of the many questions we know an individual has when they start their mental health care journey.

Finding one’s safe space may involve a lot of ‘soul searching’. Soul searching of finding a space that resonates with your hopes, values, beliefs and identity. We want to help you experience that resonance when you’re stuck at the question ‘How do I start caring for my mental health?’.

We intend to become a system that understands you for who you are, is sensitive to your identities and makes mental health a personal journey again by centering your choice and mobilizing community support.

We’ve come a long way since we launched our platform in May of 2018. At the very beginning, we only listed mental health counsellors in Mumbai. The moment we realized the power of including the dimensions of community support and resources, we rushed back to the drawing boards and launch an entirely new platform a few months later (quite similar to what you see today!).

We constantly try to equip ourselves with more ways to make the curation ‘perfect’, but we know that no curated platform ever will be.

As mental health care is a personal journey, it can happen that the support services you reach out to may not provide you with the experience you really sought for.

The hope we have, is to empower you with the knowledge of what a personal mental health care system can look like, when it’s created with your needs and choice at the center of it.

We are confident that once you experience this, you can head to any services you have access to (or discover) and recognize just the support you need.

As a community platform, we are grounded in feminist, social justice, LGBTQIA+ liberation and other movements of inclusion.

We center the needs and invite the experiences of each and every individual irrespective of age, gender identity, sexuality, religion, caste, colour, or ability.

We believe that through discussions we learn, and through inclusion and empathy we grow individually, as a community, and as an effective mental health care system.

A ‘curated’ list means that TheMindClan.com has carefully shortlisted and selected individuals, counsellors and groups who align with our values, hopes and intentions to make mental health care centered around your needs.

We believe that the existing system around the person seeking support is often plagued with stigma, quick to pathologize, and driven by a cookie-cutter approach that does not take everyone’s needs into account.

We believe that the intimidation, judgment and stigma surrounding mental health can be chipped away when people are able to make choices for their mental health care by themselves, based on their current needs, in a non-threatening community space like ours.

We’ve made sure to make the process of finding and shortlisting counsellor profiles user-intuitive. Head over to TheMindClan.com Professionals page to find individual profiles of the counsellors on our curated list and take your pick.!🙂 Once you choose a counsellor, fill out our form and we will e-mail you their contact details!

If you need any assistance with this process, feel free to drop us an email on our email address and we’d be happy to be of any help!

Helplines (for the most part) should offer a safe space for any experience you’re going through. It’s okay to feel awkward to not know how to bring the conversation up, the helpline volunteers are trained to help you!

Do ensure you are only sharing information that you feel comfortable to share. A rule of thumb is to never share your full name, bank details, personal address, or other identifiable information with a helpline.

We try and only list those helplines which have come recommended by the community to us. While most helplines have supporting press releases and brochures to support their claim of being "queer friendly", as we don’t have access to their volunteer training resources, we can never be too sure.

Please do not feel forced to open up about your experience of queerness or marginalization with the helplines you call. Let them earn your trust.

We do call every helpline we list, to ensure their details are correct. If our community reports a helpline as harmful, unresponsive, or otherwise, we update this page accordingly.

No. TheMindClan.com does not operate or own any of the helplines listed on this page. TheMindClan.com is not designed to offer support in crisis situations, which is why we’ve made a list of organizations in this space who do claim to offer this support.

These services operate independently and TheMindClan.com does not own, operate, or take any part in their day to day activities.

We do, however, believe that several people have had positive experiences with the helplines mentioned on this page and we hope to only feature those services that are trustworthy and effective.

If these helplines are not able to help you and you’re still in intense distress, please reach out to a trusted nearby hospital or call trusted emergency services.

1. Call back, and let the responder know what happened. Crisis intervention, especially if suicidality is a factor, is not easy, and not even the experts get it perfect every time. A mental health professional who is also a helpline operator had once shared, “Personally, if I have a call go “south” on me, nothing makes me happier than to know that the person called back and had a better conversation with one of my colleagues.”

2. If you have a complaint about a helpline experience, please try to report it to the helpline administration by emailing them. Each helpline’s email address or website has been provided on this page.

3. If calling them back does not work out, reach out to another helpline listed here. The professionals on the other side do want to help you in any way they can.

4. If the helplines don’t work out in general and if you are in crisis, another thing you could consider is visiting the nearest trusted hospital or emergency room where they may connect with a psychiatrist, social worker, counsellor or therapist in person.

If you care for someone who has attempted suicide in the past or is at risk for a suicide attempts, you don’t have to feel alone in this. You may not be able to completely fix their problems or take away their pain. But what you can do is access appropriate supportive services for your loved one and for yourself. Here are some steps you could take to help a loved one who is showing suicidal behaviour:

1. If you feel ready and comfortable to, have an open conversation with your loved one about their experience. Ask your loved one directly: “Are you thinking about suicide?” “Are you planning to harm yourself?” Being direct is said to not cause a person who is not suicidal to become suicidal. Talking about it may help to reduce your loved one’s suicidal distress by creating a climate of openness and caring.

2. Listen to them without judgment or interruptions. You can help your loved one feel calmer and less alone simply by being willing to listen attentively and without bias.

3. Tell them directly that they are loved and that they are not a burden. Though it may seem obvious to us, sometimes the depression or hopelessness or helplessness may push our loved one towards believing otherwise. It always helps to remind them that they matter.

4. Reach out to a therapist, support group or a helpline service yourself to seek guidance on what you can do next. It is important to connect your loved one to any or all of these services that they may find most helpful.

5. Create a safety plan with your loved one. Check pages 7 and 9 of this PDF (External Link) for details on how you can go about doing this.

As a caregiver/ally, you become a part of a supportive team – that includes family members, friends, mental health professionals and other service providers – working together to help your loved one stay safe.

We take a unique approach to employee well-being that sets us apart from traditional Employee Assistance Programs (EAP). While EAP programs typically focus solely on offering therapy, our platform goes beyond that. We curate inclusive therapists, support groups, helplines, and other resources for the masses, and we offer the same resources to your employees without any additional cost to you. We believe in building nuance and knowledge around mental health, so our offerings reflect that. Our workshops and resources empower your employees with the know-how to take the necessary steps to access support for their mental health independently. This eliminates the need for your organization to curate the services themselves and avoid incurring heavy recurring fees for prioritizing well-being.

By partnering with TheMindClan.com, your employees gain access to a wide range of mental health resources, including therapists, support groups, helplines, and more. Our workshops equip them with the knowledge and tools to navigate their mental health journeys effectively. When your employees go through our offerings, they become equipped to take the necessary steps to access support for their mental health independently, empowering them to prioritize their well-being beyond the scope of the corporate partnership.

If you’re seeking a comprehensive approach that goes beyond traditional EAP programs and fosters independent well-being for your employees, reach out to our team at [email protected] . Let us assist you in creating a mentally healthy and supportive work environment without the heavy financial burden.

We understand that circumstances may arise where the corporate partnership needs to be paused. However, even during such periods, we are committed to supporting your employees’ mental health and well-being. We offer a range of resources and tools that can continue to benefit your employees individually. Our curated mental health resources, including self-help materials and online support, are accessible to your employees wherever they may be. We believe in empowering individuals with the knowledge and tools to navigate their mental health journeys, even outside the scope of the corporate partnership.

If you are considering pausing the corporate partnership or have any concerns about continuing support for your employees, reach out to our team at [email protected] . We will work with you to ensure that your employees have access to the necessary resources and support, regardless of the status of the corporate partnership.

We have had the privilege of working with leading organizations across various industries. Some of the organizations we’ve collaborated with include Google APAC, YouTube India, Aditi Consulting, SBI Singapore, Verizon Media, and many others. We’ve also partnered with Good Business Labs for well-being policy interventions and worked with Maybelline India as their knowledge and resource partner for a pan-India mental health campaign. These collaborations demonstrate our expertise and commitment to promoting mental health and well-being in diverse workplace settings.

If you’re interested in joining the list of organizations we’ve had the pleasure of working with, reach out to our team at [email protected] . We are excited to bring our experience and knowledge to support your organization’s mental health initiatives.

Our team comprises qualified professionals who bring a wealth of experience and expertise to our services. Our team members have diverse backgrounds in psychology, mental health advocacy, and related fields. We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and staying up-to-date with the latest research and best practices in the mental health space.

Rest assured, when you partner with TheMindClan.com, you are collaborating with a team that has a deep understanding of the challenges and nuances surrounding mental health and well-being. Our team’s experience allows us to deliver workshops, resources, and support that are impactful, relevant, and tailored to your organization’s needs.

We are committed to inclusivity and ensuring that our offerings cater to diverse needs, including accessibility requirements. We understand the importance of accommodating individuals with special accessibility needs and creating an inclusive environment for all. When you reach out to our team at [email protected] , please let us know about your specific accessibility requirements. Whether it’s using a more accessible tool, providing screen reader friendly resources, providing sign language Interpreters or anything else, we will work closely with you to tailor our workshops, resources, and support to ensure that they meet your organization’s unique needs.

Join us in fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment. Reach out to our team at [email protected] , and let us assist you in incorporating your accessibility-related requirements into our offerings.

We understand the importance of affordability while prioritizing mental health and well-being in organizations. Our pricing structure is designed to be competitive and flexible, ensuring that our workshops and webinars are accessible to a wide range of organizations. The exact pricing will depend on factors such as the duration, customization requirements, and the number of participants. We offer transparent pricing models and work closely with our clients to find solutions that fit their budgetary needs.

If you’re interested in learning more about our pricing structure and exploring options that align with your organization’s budget, reach out to our team at [email protected] . Let us guide you in finding the right solution to prioritize mental health in your organization.

While our workshops are primarily conducted in English, we also offer the flexibility to provide workshops in other languages based on your organization’s needs. We understand that language can be a barrier to effective communication, and we strive to ensure that our workshops are accessible to employees who may be more comfortable in languages other than English.

If you require workshops in languages other than English, reach out to our team at [email protected] . We will work with you to understand your language preferences and explore options to deliver workshops that effectively communicate important mental health concepts and strategies in the language most suitable for your employee

We understand that financial considerations are important when it comes to investing in mental health and well-being. We offer a flexible pricing structure that aims to make our services accessible to organizations of various sizes and budgets. Our goal is to provide value-driven solutions without the need for hefty retainers. We work closely with our clients to understand their specific requirements, customize our offerings accordingly, and explore pricing options that align with their budgetary needs.

If you’re concerned about the financial implications of our services, we encourage you to reach out to our team at [email protected] . Let us assist you in finding a pricing model that works for your organization, ensuring that mental health and well-being can be prioritized without undue financial burden.

It’s completely normal to feel uncertain about your employees’ specific mental health needs. At TheMindClan.com, we are here to support you in navigating this journey. We recommend starting with open and inclusive conversations around mental health in your organization. By creating a safe space for dialogue, you can encourage employees to share their experiences and concerns.

To gain a deeper understanding of your employees’ needs, we offer consultations and assessments that can help identify key areas of focus. Our experienced team will work closely with you to gather insights, analyze the data, and provide recommendations for tailored mental health initiatives.

While research and psychometric testing can provide valuable insights, it’s important to approach them with caution, especially when it comes to mental health. At TheMindClan.com, we believe in the power of human connection, open dialogue, and comprehensive well-being programs that go beyond testing. While testing can offer certain insights, it may not address the complexities of mental health and individual experiences in a holistic manner.

Instead, we focus on building nuance and knowledge around mental health through workshops, campaigns, and creating safe spaces within the organization. By equipping employees with the necessary tools and resources, they can proactively navigate their mental health journeys. Our approach empowers individuals to take the necessary steps to access support and resources without solely relying on psychometric testing.

If you’re seeking a more comprehensive approach to mental health and well-being in your organization, reach out to our team at [email protected] . Let us guide you in designing initiatives that foster a culture of well-being and prioritize the holistic needs of your employees.