Find Trauma Psychotherapists in Pune, India

Trauma therapy treats what stays behind after a frightening or overwhelming event. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy and EMDR are the recommended treatments ¹².

World Health Organization guidance recommends both for post-traumatic stress disorder ³. Cognitive therapy and narrative exposure therapy are also used.

Treatment usually includes preparation, and work on the memory itself comes later. It is for people whose symptoms have persisted.

Not everyone who has been through something bad needs it. Ask a practitioner which approaches they are trained in.

Everyone on this page describes their work as psychotherapy. A psychotherapist works through talking with you about your thoughts, feelings and behaviours ⁴.

Psychotherapy usually runs longer than counselling and aims for clinical change. It works on patterns that repeat rather than on one current problem.

A psychotherapist trains in psychological treatment rather than in medicine. What that training covers, and which approach a practitioner uses, differ between practitioners. Ask which approach a psychotherapist trained in, and how long they usually work.

Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health. Phone +91 20 2951 8222. The current state medical services page says outpatient clinics at government medical colleges provide affordable public care and dispense free or subsidised medicines. You enter through the government psychiatric outpatient clinic, which is open to the public. Medicine subsidies depend on availability and on the hospital's rules.

Our records name no register for the title psychotherapist in India. See the India page for the professions that do carry a register there.