Akash Mohan (pronoun he/him) is a trained psychologist, a trained practitioner of queer affirmative counselling and a trained trauma-informed mental health practitioner. He has completed his Master’s in Applied Psychology from the School of Human Ecology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, specialising in Clinical and Counselling Practice (2019-2021); Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the School of Behavioural Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala (2016-2019); Trained in Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice from Mariwala Health Initiative, Mumbai (2021, April/May Cohort); Sexuality and Sexual Counselling from Alternative Stories, Bangalore (2020). In addition, he is pursuing a Certification in Trauma-Informed Care from the School of Human Ecology at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (2022).
He is currently employed as a full-time Consultant Psychologist and QACP at Mind Weavers, a mental health center based in Calicut, Kerala. He is also an associate Consultant Psychologist at That Safe Space, Thiruvanathapuram and an affiliate Consultant Psychologist at HealMind. He also served as the former Mission Officer of Psychology Circle’s Central Circle (a non-governmental organisation of psychology professionals and students in Kerala). He is a team member and trainer at the Sexuality Education Kerala Foundation and the All-Time Love Foundation, etc.

In addition to being a practicing psychologist, he has been a resource person and facilitator for more than thirty-plus online and offline national and state-level programmes, such as webinars, workshops, training, panel discussions on mental health and wellbeing, critical approaches to mental health, SOGIESC, sexuality education, etc.

He is a mental health professional who approaches his clients from a trauma-informed, strength-based perspective that emphasises adaptation over symptoms and resilience over pathology. As a mental health professional, he believes that the best way to support someone’s mental health is through mental health practice, which cannot ignore the experience of marginalisation and oppression that person has gone through. He uses a postmodern narrative-oriented approach to therapy, which he combines with other modalities, to understand and work with the systemic and social/structural factors that affect mental health, such as the intersection of gender and sexuality, caste, disability, and other forms of oppression, aiming to move away from reductionist and individualistic ways of thinking and toward an intersectional way of thinking, with the goal of making new stories about how mental health practices work.

His online and offline practice provides counselling services for various mental health-related and well-being concerns, not limited to but including mood, anxiety, adjustment, and relationship well-being; queer affirmative counselling services (QACP); sexuality and sexual counselling; trauma-informed counselling; and expert consultation for organisations and individuals and other stakeholders on matters pertaining to his expertise. He primarily serves clients who are in their late adolescence to late adulthood of all sexualities and genders. He is formally supervised by a well-trained mental health professional and is part of both formal group supervision and informal group supervision to make sure he gives the best service possible.