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Inara strives to create a space where mental health and wellbeing is accessible, personalized, and aligned with updated research and practices. Where an individual is seen as a whole, made up of many parts – a constellation of experiences, learnings, belief systems, and a nervous system that goes beyond the conventional labels and diagnoses.

We offer services catering to individuals and groups utilising somatic and creative arts-based therapy practices with a unique person-centered and trauma-focused lens.

At Inara, above and beyond the conventional mental health services, we hope to fill gaps in the fabric of mental health services by designing interventions that cater to populations and communities less supported – children from under resourced communities, women post-partum, care providers of women post-partum, and parents, to name a few.

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Ruchi Shah Jhaveri
MA, R-DMT, CCTP

Ruchi is a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist and Mental Health Counsellor. She is also a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. Upon completing her education in Chicago, USA, she moved back to India to share her experience and knowledge in the field of mental health and psychotherapy. She co-founded the Indian Association of Dance Movement Therapy (IADMT). Over the years Ruchi has worked with children, adolescents, adults, older adults and individuals with special needs in a variety of settings such as – schools, hospitals, corporates, private counselling service centers and day programs. Outside of her clinical work she is an Advisory Board Member at Step2Words, an NGO that helps improve English literacy in children from low-resource communities using theatre, visual arts, and integrated social -emotional literacy. Ruchi facilitates various workshops, webinars, and groups to spread awareness about DMT and related practices.

Ruchi Shah Jhaveri
MA, R-DMT, CCTP

I am a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist, licensed by the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) and a Mental Health Counsellor. Upon completing my education in Chicago, USA, I moved back to India to share my experience and knowledge in the field of mental health and psychotherapy. I strongly believe that my role as a therapist is to simply guide and empower my clients to uncover that which they already know, and to eventually help empower them to further in their own independent healing journey.

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What we offer

Individual Therapy

One-on-one therapy where you get to work on personalized goals set by you. The aim is to help empower you to independently combat your challenges over time.

Group Therapy

A therapy session designed formore than two people working on similar goals. The group will help you explore your own challenges and healing in an altruistic and empathic safe space with others.

Postpartum Care

Services including individual therapy, group therapy, workshops, and other offerings designed to support women postpartum and create a sense of community. The goal is to create a shared space where women in any phase postpartum or even on the cusp of child birth feel heard, seen, and supported.

Parenting Counselling

A range of offerings focused on helping parents navigate their parenting journey. Providing a neutral and non-judgemental space to address concerns with children and the parent-child dynamic ultimately improving overall family dynamics.

Workshops

Open-to-all workshops with different themes each time that give people an opportunity to experience dance/movement therapy and other creative art modalities in a therapeutic group setting

Corporate workshops

Tailor-made workshops and sessions designed for corporate employees on themes required by them

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Reflections

“Ruchi changed my mindset about therapy. When I started, she said that therapy will help me feel like I’m flying, and I didn’t think that was possible because of how stuck I felt at that point. But within 2-3 sessions I started understanding what she meant. She made me understand my patterns and feelings which helped me a lot. She was always so flexible, calm and grounded. Therapy with her was an amazing experience!”

Female, 17
Student

“I went for a DMT session just to accompany a friend not knowing what to expect. I was hugely surprised to see the intense emotional release I had at the end of my very first session and I became a convert. Ruchi is very empathetic and intuitive and a wonderful therapist.”

Female, 52
Entrepreneur

“If part of being human is healing, healing can only exist while moving…Not only is it a necessity of individual expression but also to helps bring to life and move that which is stuck, stored, suppressed. Along with breath work which gives light to what is hidden in a sense, this stuff needs some help in finally moving up and out of the system. This movement helps show where we store our emotions (energy -in-motion) and hence allows us to express and release them.”

Male, 25
Aviation Professional

“I attended the DMT workshop conducted by Ruchi. It was my first experience but I was so happy with the session. I found it to be an eye opener. It helped me relate to my emotions through dance and release pent up feelings. It truly helped me connect with myself in ways I would not have otherwise.”

Female, 42
Homemaker

“Ruchi is a great therapist and made me feel like I was in a safe space. A lot shifted for me. I’m a healer so I can identify with the shifts – in my chakras, my cellular memory, my matrix.”

Female, 50
Healer

“Ruchi changed my mindset about therapy. When I started, she said that therapy will help me feel like I’m flying, and I didn’t think that was possible because of how stuck I felt at that point. But within 2-3 sessions I started understanding what she meant. She made me understand my patterns and feelings which helped me a lot. She was always so flexible, calm and grounded. Therapy with her was an amazing experience!”

Female, 17
Student

“I went for a DMT session just to accompany a friend not knowing what to expect. I was hugely surprised to see the intense emotional release I had at the end of my very first session and I became a convert. Ruchi is very empathetic and intuitive and a wonderful therapist.”

Female, 52
Entrepreneur

“I attended the DMT workshop conducted by Ruchi. It was my first experience but I was so happy with the session. I found it to be an eye opener. It helped me relate to my emotions through dance and release pent up feelings. It truly helped me connect with myself in ways I would not have otherwise.”

Female, 42
Homemaker

“If part of being human is healing, healing can only exist while moving…Not only is it a necessity of individual expression but also to helps bring to life and move that which is stuck, stored, suppressed. Along with breath work which gives light to what is hidden in a sense, this stuff needs some help in finally moving up and out of the system. This movement helps show where we store our emotions (energy -in-motion) and hence allows us to express and release them.”

Male, 25
Aviation Professional

“Ruchi is a great therapist and made me feel like I was in a safe space. A lot shifted for me. I’m a healer so I can identify with the shifts – in my chakras, my cellular memory, my matrix.”

Female, 50
Healer