Vaishnavi Sapkale

Vaishnavi Sapkale is a psychosocial therapist with an academic background in psychology and counselling. Her therapeutic orientation integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), the Person-Centred Approach and existential phenomenology, informed by social psychiatry. She emphasises understanding individuals through their lived experiences, emotions, relationships and personal meanings. She considers it essential to recognise how cultural, social, economic and structural contexts shape psychological wellbeing and distress. Her approach values empathy, self-understanding, individual agency and culturally responsive engagement, recognising the person beyond their presenting concerns and understanding them within the broader contexts of their lives.