Professional Counsellors

About the Counsellor:

Dr.S. Thenmozhi, Professor and Head, Department of Counselling Psychology, University of Madras. Additionally, she is also the Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Madras, Institute of Distance Education (IDE).

She earned her Ph.D. in Counselling Psychology from University of Madras. She was trained by Dr.Emma Gonsalvez, a renowned Psychologist and Psychotherapist from New York University, USA.Furthermore, she underwent intensive Clinical Supervision training to become a Washington State Certified and Registered Clinical Supervisor in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Seattle, USA in 2019.

From 1998, she has been engaged in part-time private practice of clinical, counselling, and family psychology. For over 10 years she has been conducting screening camps during the summer to identify children with learning disabilities and other developmental disabilities, to make certain they acquire the appropriate remedial measures and therapies along with parent counselling.

Philanthropically,in an effort to increase the well-being of human kind she served as a Special Counsellor for the Family Court, Madras High Court,Chennai providing special counselling services for the couples and the families who are going through divorce proceedings from 2006 to 2012 and is also the Honorary Director for Srishti Special School (for children with Intellectual Difficulties, Learning Disability, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorders).

Dr.S. Thenmozhi has received numerous awards and honours from around India. She was the recipient of the Best Institution Award from the then Chief Minister Dr.J. Jayalalitha in 2014. She has been consulted and interviewed by major news papers, TV and radio stations,on a variety ofc ounselling and psychological issues.