ABOUT
Dr. Reena Sharma, Ph.D
Founder, Psychologist,
Rehabilitation & Forensic Psychologist, Criminologist
Passionate About Helping Others
Dr. Reena Sharma, Ph.D., is the Founder and Practicing Psychologist at The Mind Practice. She has over two decades of experience in psychological therapies, human resources, and behavioral/soft skill training and administration. She is a qualified Rehabilitation & Forensic Psychologist and criminologist with expertise in psychological & forensic psychological therapies/assessments, investigative techniques, and offender rehabilitation.
She has received training in a variety of modalities, including (, (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) DBT, (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) ACT, Motivational Interviewing, Forensic CBT, (CBT Australia), Cognitive Behavior Therapy) CBT in depression, personality disorder, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder, clinical training Couples therapy etc from reputable institutions such as the Beck Institute of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Gottman Method Couples Therapy & The Couples institute, MI Ireland CBT Australia.
Dr. Reena Sharma is the pioneer of a multifaceted clinical practice programme for transformation that includes customized responses, professional training modules, and forensic and psychological interventions using innovative techniques. She emphasizes a holistic approach to intervention by addressing the emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual dimensions of each client's requirements. Her work addresses a variety of dimensions like personality disorders, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, couple therapies, adolescent issues and therapy, work life balance issues, corporate employees and management sessions etc in all types of population.
Samarth: Breaking Barriers is one of The Mind Practice's interventions. Samarth: Breaking Barriers has centers in each of Gujarat's four central prisons: Ahmedabad, Baroda, Surat, and Rajkot. This programme is open to all prisoners and prison staff, regardless of IPC or gender. Samarth's foundations are Forensic Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Positive Criminology. It is an intervention in cognitive and emotional literacy. Samarth is the first of its kind initiative in India, offering therapeutic reformation, intervention, suicide prevention etc. It focuses on the criminal thought process and focuses on restructuring it using forensic cognitive behavior modalities; it assists them in choosing prosocial lifestyle choices over antisocial lifestyle choices. In addition, pay attention to the mental health of inmates and prison staff. One of the Mind's initiatives is suicide prevention.
She also works with the police administration in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar for various interventions in the capacity of a consultant. She has also developed a Victim Support program for Ahmedabad City.
Her previous initiatives include the establishment and management of Indrishti, a registered trust, which she founded in 2013. She has consistently worked in the field of mental wellness with various strata of society, NGO, corporate entities, prisons, rehabs, and schools. She has also assisted people in individual , family therapy and group therapy in combating addictive behavior.
With a clear vision, Dr. Reena Sharma is attempting to integrate mental health into the psyche and experience of a society in such a way that mental health becomes normal.
Dr. Reena Sharma is a PhD in Criminology, she is Master of Philosophy in Forensic Psychology, she is a trained therapist working in the area of Cognitive behavior therapy for personality disorders, depression, anxiety, Forensic CBT, Couple's therapy, motivational interviewing and addiction management. She specializes in forensic psychology, rehabilitation psychology and counseling Psychology Hypnotic Modalities for Behavioral Resolutions Regression Therapies & Energy Dynamics. She holds a diploma in Integrated Clinical Hypnotherapy, and also an MBA in HRD. A certified Trainer for Neurocriminology Reasoning & Rehabilitation Program accredited by the Cognitive Center of Canada.
She has worked closely with Tihar Jail, New Delhi and Bhondsi Jail, Haryana, before Gujarat Prisons Department as Consultant psychologist for convicts and Jail Management also currently provides various psychological interventions in all Central Prisons of Gujarat which is Surat, Rajkot, baroda, Ahmedabad.
She is also associated as a visiting faculty in various esteemed educational universities like PDEU, RRU, GLS etc for teaching various fields and subjects in clinical, counseling , biopsychology and others in Psychology ,Forensic Psychology, criminology
