About · Our Team

The people
behind the work.

AMHI is a collective of expressive arts and somatic therapists, researchers, and practitioners committed to making depth-oriented, body-based mental health care more accessible.

Bhargavi Raman, Founder

Bhargavi Raman

Founder · Expressive Arts & Somatic Psychotherapist

Bhargavi Raman is the founder of AMHI and a somatic therapist with over 13 years of experience in arts-based facilitation, expressive arts therapy, somatic psychotherapy, and trauma-informed practice. She holds training in Somatic Experiencing® (ongoing), Integral Somatic Psychology®, inter-modal Expressive Arts Therapy, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness®, and Polyvagal-informed therapy. She focuses on gently shifting the nervous system stuck in survival states into safe and thriving states. She also works in community-based MHPSS projects in collaboration with governments and organisations.

She has worked with over 300 individual clients and 45+ organisations across 8 countries — including Mind & Life Institute, Asia-Europe Foundation, the Government of Karnataka, NIMHANS, FAHI, Azim Premji University, Google, L&T, Toyota, and SoulUp. Her work sits at the intersection of body, emotion, art, and depth psychology, grounded in a commitment to social justice, inclusivity, and the belief that healing is both personal and collective.

Expressive Arts Therapy Somatic Experiencing® Trauma-Informed Polyvagal Theory 13+ years · 6000+ hours
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The Therapists

Four new practitioners
joining AMHI.

Ponni Arasu

Ponni Arasu

Expressive Arts Therapist · Tamil Language Practice
Ponni is a Tamil, queer feminist Expressive Arts Therapist whose practice arrived through personal healing and years of work with marginalised communities in India and Sri Lanka. Trained as a historical anthropologist, lawyer, and theatre practitioner, she grounds her work in an embodied social justice framework — trauma-informed and deeply aware of oppression and the structures it creates. Inspired by Jungian ideas of wholeness and the collective, she believes in individual and collective bodies as sites of both oppression and liberation. Her practice is rooted in Tantra as proposed by Lata Mani — embracing interdependence, radical equality, and faith in a greater power that holds us. She has co-founded the Tamil Speaking Therapeutic Practitioner's Network. Her practice is primarily in Tamil, her mother tongue.
Expressive Arts Social Justice Trauma-Informed Tamil Language
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Sanjoli Sakhuja

Sanjoli Sakhuja

Art Psychotherapist · New Delhi
Sanjoli is an Art Psychotherapist based in New Delhi with a Master's in Art Psychotherapy from Goldsmiths, University of London. Over eight years, she has worked with adolescents, adults, and families — currently supporting young adults through anxiety, relationship challenges, identity, and trauma. She works from the belief that not everything can be expressed in words. By integrating art-making with psychotherapy, she creates space for self-discovery, emotional understanding, and a deeper connection with one's inner world.
Art Psychotherapy Adolescents Adults & Families Workshops
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Shilka Agarwal

Shilka Agarwal

Expressive Movement Therapist & Somatic Practitioner
Shilka is an expressive arts therapist and practitioner with a Master's in Expressive Movement Therapy. She works with adults navigating trauma, anxiety, life transitions, relationship challenges, and emotional overwhelm — using body-based, creative, and relational approaches that go where words often can't. She creates collaborative spaces where clients can explore their inner world, reconnect with their strengths, and move toward greater wellbeing.
Movement Therapy Somatic Practice Expressive Arts Trauma-Informed
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Cliszma Da Costa

Cliszma Da Costa

Psychologist · Dance/Movement Therapy & Expressive Arts
Cliszma is a Psychologist, Educator, and Dance/Movement Therapy & Expressive Arts Practitioner with over six years of experience across India and the UAE. She supports people through anxiety, burnout, trauma, life transitions, and self-discovery — blending Counselling Psychology, CBT, Somatic Practices, Dance/Movement Therapy, Inner Child Healing, and Shadow Work. She believes healing is not just about talking; it is about reconnecting with the parts of ourselves that have been silenced or overwhelmed. The most important relationship you'll ever build is the one you have with yourself.
Dance/Movement Therapy Expressive Arts CBT Somatic Practices
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