Doctoral Advanced Extern
Accompanying children, teens, and adults toward deeper self-understanding, trauma healing, and personal and relational growth through warm, thoughtful therapy and assessment.
India (she/her) brings trauma-informed training and a commitment to deep relational therapeutic approach to her work with clients of all ages. She is in her fourth year of the Clinical Psychology doctorate program at Adler University and serves as an advanced extern at JPC, conducting therapy and assessments alongside our psychologists.
India holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Adler University and earned her bachelor’s degree in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard College. She has clinical experience working with children, adolescents, and adults in outpatient practice, inpatient psychiatric hospital, and university settings.
Across these settings, India has supported clients with varied clinical concerns and who represent a range of ages, abilities, gender and sexual identities, cultural backgrounds, immigration experiences, and socioeconomic circumstances. Prior to becoming a clinician, India worked as a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant, supporting organizations to create a more just, diverse, and equitable experience of work and impact on the world.
India’s clinical work is grounded in deep relational practice and liberation-oriented values. She supports clients in exploring how identity, relationships, culture, and broader systems shape their experiences, while helping them move toward healing and personally meaningful change. Her particular interests include complex trauma, identity exploration, perinatal and developmental health, and working alongside people whose identities and experiences have been historically marginalized.
Biography
"When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak." - Audre Lorde