Mahima is a psychotherapist, a creative thinker and a poet, kindled by observing the intricacies in the relational world. She is academically fascinated in exploring the themes of silence, continuing her previous research reflections of schizoid silence in cinema and the essence of uncertainty in silent meditations of creative writing during Covid19.

In her journey of academia, she has completed her second post graduation in Psychoanalytic Studies from University of London (UK), MA in Psycho-social Clinical Studies and BA Honours in Psychology from Ambedkar University Delhi (India), where she received various scholarships for demonstrating outstanding potential in her field.

She has also completed her Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy and engaged briefly with the modality of Neuro-Linguistic programming. She is inclined towards the psychodynamic framework based on her training and personal resonance with its metaphor, however she incorporates an eclectic approach in her clinical practice.

She has worked with NGOs and psychiatric rehab centres within India. In her earlier experience of managing a high support mental health facility for adults in London, she has worked with school students on autism spectrum and learning disabilities. As a Team Lead, she engaged with the non-verbal clients with autism and profound learning disabilities, and was confronted by the overwhelming burden of helplessness and the exhausted emotions of their families and her team of supporting staff members. Understanding meanings and idiosyncratic experiences of silence has consistently become important in her work.

She continues her exploration in practice with works of D.W. Winnicott and is deeply inspired from the ab-original Psychoanalytic work from India by G.S. Bose and Sudhir Kakar. In her work with psychotic clients and the anxious personality traits, she touched on the nature of wounds which hid behind a silent/silenced curtain, but also how the nurturing space in non-communication offered a site of healing. She is pursuing PhD in Psychoanalysis to address the deeper meanings within silence, perhaps which remain blurred in the noise of words.

Mahima’s excavation of silence blends with her own encounter of silence in meditative spaces, clinical spaces and sites of grief, alongside the screen of melancholia. She withstood her contact with clients who have chosen silence to resist the violence of accepting, and also sometimes imprisoned in their familiar known fact, of being unknown to the self.