Meet the Founder
Sarayu Chandrashekar
Couple & Family Therapist|Supervisor|Trainer
Sarayu Chandrashekar is a Systemically trained Couple & Family Therapist with over 14 years of experience working with couples, families and individuals on their relationship issues, parenting issues, traumas and other life challenges. She has previously worked as a psychotherapist in the United States and in the Cayman Islands, and currently has her private practice in Bangalore, India. She is a Professional Supervisor, certified by the Australian Counselling Association in the RISE UP model, who facilitates individual and group supervision sessions for other therapists. She runs various trainings and workshops for other mental health professionals and counselling organizations on Systemic Couple & Family Therapy.
She has a Masters in Marriage & Family Therapy from Purdue University, USA and a Masters in Counselling Psychology from Montfort College, India. She has completed her ICEEFT-certified Externship and Core Skills training in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy as well as Level 1 training in Eye Movement and Desensitization Therapy (EMDR), a form of trauma therapy.
Our Story
Matters of Relationship is a mental health organization that offers Systemic therapy-oriented trainings and supervision for mental health professionals in India. While there is rapidly growing demand for good quality couple and family therapy in India, we observe that there is a significant shortage of clinicians who have specialised training and/or degrees in couple and family therapy to work effectively with those clients. Our organization was founded in order to fill this gap in the Indian mental health field. We aim to provide mental health professionals with high quality systemic therapy trainings and supervision by experienced systemic therapists to help them learn and expand their therapeutic skills and work more effectively with their clients.
What is Systemic Therapy?
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Systemic therapy, unlike other individual therapies, believes that human beings are fundamentally shaped by and, in turn, influence their environment or the systems they are a part of (which includes their families, their communities, workplaces, other social institutions etc). These systems play a significant role in their psychological development and emotional well-being. Treating a client(s) without understanding and addressing their context is akin to treating a symptom without understanding the root cause of an illness. It does not lead to sustained change.Therefore, learning systemic therapy will help you, as a mental health professional, have a more holistic understanding of your clients' challenges and develop the necessary skills to help them experience sustained, second-order change in their presenting concerns.
Why Matters of Relationship?
It can help with
Trainings
We offer systemic therapy based trainings to mental health professionals on couple, family therapy and related topics.
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Individual Supervision
If you are a practicing or trainee mental health professional looking for individual supervision from a systemic, experiential approach, click here.
Workshops
We offer brief workshops for mental health professionals on couple, family therapy and related topics. Click on the Trainings tab for more info.
Group Supervision
If you are a practicing or trainee mental health professional looking for a supervision group with peers facilitated by a senior Systemic therapist,