NANKI OBEROI
Child and Family Psychologist
ABOUT NANKI OBEROI
Child and Family Psychologist
Nanki Oberoi CPsychol is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, United Kingdom. She works as a psychotherapist for children, adolescents, young adults and their families as well as adults, offering both online and in-person sessions at her clinic, Story Room in Delhi, NCR, India. She is an alumni of The Anna Freud National Centre for children and families and University College London (UCL), United Kingdom.
As the co-founder of the Bitty Oberoi Foundation, Nanki is deeply inspired by the work of her mother and wishes to work towards developing regulations for school mental health.
BA (Honors) Psychology, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi
Master of Arts (Psychology), University of Delhi
Developmental Psychologist, Children First India
Co-Founded The Bitty Oberoi Foundation
Counseling Psychologist, The Shiv Nadar Schools
Awarded the Chevening Scholarship
MSc. Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology, University College London and The Anna Freud National Centre for children and families
Founded Story Room, a mental health clinic
Continued Professional Development
Mental health First Aid,
England
2019
Supervised training in Couple and Family Therapy (Systemic Therapy)
2020-2022
The Four Pillars of Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy
2023
Accredited in The Story Stem Assessment Profile, The Anna Freud Centre
2024
THE STORY ROOM PHILOSOPHY
Story room is underpinned by the philosophy that ‘We all have mental health’, implying that therapy can help not just those distressed but can prove to be instrumental in enhancing emotional well-being for all. It respects the subjective experience of distress unique to each individual based on his/her personal life story. The body and mind must constantly work in sync with each other as we grow across our lifespan, propelling us to thrive. Emotional well-being impacts everything in our lives – our family and relationships; academic and work performance as well our physical health. Mental fitness, thus, is as crucial as physical fitness to foster overall well-being.
Emotional distress can at times interfere with our mental fitness due to unexpected stressors or life events, becoming untold stories carried within us. These continually impact our interactions with self and others, and negatively impact our mental health and well-being. Story Room works with concerns such as depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, family difficulties, work and academic struggles along with other interpersonal concerns. The therapeutic process involves the patient and therapist working together to explore the potential roots of their difficulties, gradually moving towards improvement and enhancement of mental well-being.
AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
Some specific areas of clinical experience and interest include:
NON-CLINICAL ENGAGEMENTS
Though working as a psychologist and psychotherapist is central to her work, she is extremely passionate about mental health awareness and advocacy. Aiming to create the distinction between mental health and mental illness, she is guided by a philosophy that We all have mental health, which aims to normalize the range of negative experiences in individuals. She is equally vehement in promoting the cause of supervision and self-therapy amongst psychotherapists as crucial ingredients to ethical practice of the psychotherapy profession, a feature currently unregulated in India. She believes that many goals of education in children overlap with goals of optimal psychological development, and collaborates with schools in order to engage with educators, parents and other mental health professionals through workshops and bespoke programs.
As a researcher, she derives inspiration from her clinical work to inspect pertinent areas which she comes across in the consulting room, specifically school mental health, the impact of technology and social media on psychological development, socio-emotional concerns of the differently-abled. Grief psychology and Grief counseling is another area that she writes about and continues to explore through her clinical work.
She enjoys writing on mental health and continuing to pursue training in contemporary, emergent forms of therapy. She considers regular exercise and spending time with animals as a crucial ingredient to her own mental health.