Mrigtrishna is a Psychotherapist and the Founder of Khejdi For Mental Health, based in Jaipur. Her mission is to spread awareness and develop quality community mental health services, focusing on both urban and rural parts of Rajasthan.

Her journey integrates art, food, games, and various activities to foster mental well-being, following a holistic approach that weaves together diverse elements to create community-based spaces for mental health. As the Founder and Psychotherapist at Khejdi For Mental Health, Mrigtrishna is dedicated to building a social enterprise that offers psychotherapy and mental health awareness. She collaborates with various individuals and organizations to create spaces for mental health awareness, conducting Mental Health Chaupal since 2018 and hosting weekly sharing circles in Jaipur for the past 5 and a half years.

In the early stages of her career, Mrigtrishna worked with Hank Nunn Institute as the Outreach Counseling Services Manager and later founded and managed the Hank Nunn Institute Jaipur Unit. She also has experience working in rural areas, spending four years with a college in the rural parts of Rajasthan.

As a mental health advocate and psychotherapist passionate about spreading mental health awareness, she organizes monthly mental health chaupals, workshops, awareness events, and fundraisers using various mediums such as wall painting, movie screenings, bike rallies, music events, and open facilitated conversations around mental health. Since 2016, she has been providing individual and group therapy, both offline in Jaipur and online, and organizing mental health events across Rajasthan, including in rural and urban areas.

The circle is formed amongst a group of individuals who respect each other by giving each other space and time to listen to without any biases, while in return provide others with the same dignity of space and time.

I have been hosting these circles on a weekly basis since February 2019.

Happens Every Wednesday, 7 pm onwards, Jaipur Rajasthan

• We begin the circle with a small introduction to the space and to the rules of the group process.

• We invite all the participants to express their thoughts, feelings, emotions, or experiences in any way or form - words, poetry, music, dance, anything.

• We go chance by chance in the circle, giving everyone to express themselves, if participants don’t want to share anything then they can pass.

• We mention that in order to respect everyone’s sharing and keeping away the advise giving and judgments away from the circle we ask the participants to listen to other sharing, respond to it non verbally but not intrupt, talk or ask questions while someone is sharing.

• We encourage participation to share if someone’s sharing brings up something form one’s own experience or life, but not to comment on anybody else’s sharing.

• If the participant want to talk about a member of the circle about what they shared, then in that case after the circle, they can take the person’s permission and with their permission they can talk to them about it.