The person behind the practice.

Hershita Singh

M.Sc. Psychology

IGNOU

CBT Trained

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Internal Family Systems

IFS trained therapist

MDS · BDS

Surendera Dental College, Sri Ganganagar

Hi, I'm Hershita.

My path to therapy wasn't a straight line — and I think that's part of what makes me good at this work. I trained first as a dentist, completing my BDS and MDS at Surendera Dental College before spending years as a healthcare professional and academic. Along the way, I kept returning to the same question: what actually helps people heal — not just their bodies, but their whole selves?

That question led me to psychology. I'm currently pursuing my M.Sc. in Psychology through IGNOU, and I've trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Internal Family Systems. My counselling work began in earnest at Saaransh Sansthan in Ajmer, where I ran mental health awareness camps and one-on-one sessions for teenagers and people living with HIV. That work showed me the enormous, unmet need for thoughtful, compassionate mental health support in India.

I've also volunteered with the Inner Wheel International Women's Organization, providing counselling for underprivileged children, and with IBTIDA — teaching English to children in rural Mewat. Community, care, and access to support have always been at the heart of what I do.

I'm based in Mohali, Punjab, and see all clients online. My approach is warm, collaborative, and evidence-based — and I'll never push you faster than you're ready to go.

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What I believe about healing.

I believe that people are resilient — not because they don't get hurt, but because they have the capacity to grow through what hurts them. Therapy isn't about fixing what's broken; it's about helping you reconnect with your own wisdom and strength.

I also believe in meeting people with radical acceptance — not just tolerating who you are, but genuinely welcoming the whole of you into the room. That includes the parts you're ashamed of, the parts that feel too complicated to explain, and the parts you haven't met yet.

The therapeutic relationship itself is the heart of the work. When two people can be genuinely honest with each other, something healing happens. I take that responsibility seriously.

My therapeutic approach

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Exploring the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviour to create lasting change.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Working with the different 'parts' of yourself to build self-compassion and inner harmony.

Mindfulness-Based Approaches

Building the capacity to be present with difficult experiences without being overwhelmed by them.

Attachment Theory

Understanding how early relational patterns shape who we are and how we connect today.

Narrative Therapy

Examining the stories we tell about ourselves — and finding space to rewrite them.

Psychodynamic Insight

Bringing unconscious patterns into awareness so they no longer run the show.

Internal Family Systems —
a new lens for healing in India.

IFS is one of the most transformative therapeutic models to emerge in recent decades. It remains relatively new to the Indian mental health landscape — and it's an approach Hershita is actively bringing to her practice.

What is IFS?

Developed by Dr Richard Schwartz, Internal Family Systems is a powerful, evidence-based model that understands the mind as made up of many distinct "parts" — each with its own perspective, feelings, and role. Alongside these parts lives a calm, compassionate core: the Self.

Rather than trying to silence or overcome difficult emotions, IFS invites you to get curious about them. When we approach our inner world with compassion instead of judgement, real and lasting change becomes possible.

IFS has a strong evidence base for trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and more. It is now listed as an evidence-based practice by NREPP (the US National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices).

New to India — and here now.

While IFS has gained significant traction in the United States and Europe over the past two decades, it is only beginning to make inroads into the Indian therapeutic community. Very few practitioners in India have received formal IFS training.

Hershita is part of a small, growing group of therapists bringing this model to Indian clients — adapting it thoughtfully to the cultural contexts that shape how we in India understand self, family, duty, and emotion.

This matters because the dominant therapeutic models available in India have not always accounted for the complexity of our inner emotional lives. IFS offers a framework that is both rigorous and deeply human.

What working with IFS feels like.

In an IFS-informed session, you might notice that different situations bring out very different sides of you — a part that shuts down, a part that rages, a part that never feels good enough. Rather than labelling these as problems, we approach them as protectors trying to help you in the only way they know.

The work is gentle, curious, and non-pathologising. You remain in the driver's seat. Sessions often bring a surprising sense of spaciousness and self-compassion — sometimes even a quiet kind of relief at finally understanding yourself.

  • No part of you is bad or broken

    Every part has a reason for being there.

  • You have more inner resources than you know

    The Self is always present, however buried it feels.

  • Healing happens from the inside out

    We work with your system, not against it.

  • Culturally adaptable

    IFS works alongside — not against — Indian family and relational contexts.

Education & training

  1. 2022 – present

    M.Sc. Psychology

    Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

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    CBT Training

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    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

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    Internal Family Systems Training

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    IFS trained therapist

  4. 2013 – 2016

    Master in Dental Surgery (MDS)

    Surendera Dental College & Research Institute, Sri Ganganagar

    Oral Pathology & Microbiology

  5. 2007 – 2012

    Bachelor in Dental Surgery (BDS)

    Surendera Dental College & Research Institute, Sri Ganganagar