Team Sugamya
She has taught and mentored each member of the team for several years. Nalini has been a part of Banjara Academy for decades. During this period she has counselled several hundreds of people across R T Nagar and Basavanagudi Centres. She has also and taught Counselling and Life Skills to many more hundreds. Since 2011, she led the Operations of the RV Road branch of the Banjara Academy following the demise of her husband Raja Reddy. She has been an integral part of the flagship counselling course of this organisation for 20+ years. She has taught and mentored over 2000 students in the Basavanagudi Centre itself. In addition to holding advanced diplomas, she also has an MS in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Nalini Raja Reddy
Founder, Principal Counsellor
Sudha has Counselled in diverse organisations such as NIMHANS – Psychosocial rehabilitation centre, BMS Women’s College, Belaku Sishu Nivasa, Samadhana and Helping Hand Counselling Centres. She enjoys serving the underprivileged, and therefore continues to volunteer at Swamy Vivekananda School, Sharada Nursery and a few other places. In addition to counselling, she empowers adolescents and children with life skills. She holds an MS in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has mentored and groomed several batches of Counsellors over one and a half decades.
Sudha Nagendra
Senior Counsellor
An educationist cum teacher for 30+ years. A trained counsellor cum life skills trainer for 22+ years. She has experience of teaching both in India and abroad. Her last full-time stint was with Kumaran’s School where she was adored and respected by both students and parents. In her other avatar as Counsellor and Trainer, she has conducted numerous workshops for parents, students and teachers. She has been particularly counselling students and parents successfully. She has also been a faculty of Banjara Academy’s Diploma Courses. She is passionate about giving children the best in education or equipping them with skills to face their challenges effectively with more preparedness.
Suganthi Mukund
Senior Counsellor & Trainer
Co-founder, Counsellor and Life Coach with Sugamya. Having been a corporate HR leader for over two decades, she today helps business organisations become more humane. Along with her HR and Management qualifications from XLRI and IIMB, Raj has a series of qualifications in Counselling and Life Skills Coaching. She has also been a mentor to many batches of budding counsellors and life skills trainers. She is also certified in CBT, NLP and EI based Coaching.
Rajarajeswari B
Co-founder, Counsellor
After a successful career in the IT industry for 10+ years, Priya moved to the field of counselling to help people in their journey of mental wellbeing. She has been a freelance counsellor for people of varied age groups from children to elders. She has counselled at Dwitiya Life Care and a few other organisations prior to becoming a part of Sugamya.
An Engineer in Computer Science, Priya has been an IT and HR professional, had started an NGO and then went on to pursue her Diploma Counselling. She has an MA in Psychology and has done short certification courses in Understanding & Preventing Dementia.
She volunteers to Counsel cancer patients across a few hospitals.
Priya Mudholkar
Counsellor
Prachi started her journey as a certified nurse at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Her compassion and commitment won her the Mayor’s award for Best Student Nurse. Her deep desire to make a positive difference to people brought her to counselling.
Prior to joining Sugamya, Prachi mentored and counselled at Mitra Jyoti, Samarthanam and Helping Hands, including a full time stint as child counselor at BalaYesu Vidyalaya. She is also a certified Yogic Counsellor and Art Therapist.
Prachi Khanolkar
Counsellor
Shaila Hegde is a post graduate in Psychology with additional qualifications in Special Education and Diploma in Counselling from Banjara Academy. She has an experience of more than 20 years working in special schools such as Spastics Society of Karnataka, PAPCP, Ashakiran and Asha centre for Autism. Her expertise lies in teaching and assessing children with intellectual disability, Learning disability and Autism spectrum disorder, counseling parents and siblings of such children etc. Being trained in horticulture therapy skills, she could also engage the children in this area to create a difference in overall enhancing their learning and empowerment.
Shaila Hegde
Counsellor & Special Educator
Gopala Vijayapuri (Gopal KV) has been an IT Industry veteran in the Banking Domain. He brings with him varied areas of knowledge and skills from Finance, Quality, Project Management, etc. Above all, he has the experience of working with and guiding employees across levels/cadres. Taking that people management experience to the next level, he got trained and certified as a Counsellor from Banjara Academy. With his gentle and polite approach, patience and passion for reaching out, he has counselled a wide range of people in the past 5 years. This ability and his spiritual bent of mind have helped heal many emotional distresses in those he counselled.