Dr Prerna Kohli PhD - Psychologist

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Dr Prerna Kohli PhD -  Psychologist Dr. Prerna Kohli is a caring Psychologist in Private Practice, helping her clients live their life with Confidence...
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I approach all of my clients with immediate concern for relieving their troubling symptoms and resolving their current life problems. Even though my approach is psychoanalytic, I belong to a new school of relational and interpersonal psychoanalysis that has blossomed over the past twenty years. Rather than focusing heavily on past events, I help my clients integrate their past with their present. Understanding the genetic and environmental forces that shaped the persons they are today helps provide valuable insight and perspective on their current situation. Thus the “Client Centric” and I also involve the family for support therapy to the client. I work to educate my clients about human nature, including the fact that we cannot control what we feel. This has recently been confirmed by neuroscience research, even though many people believe that they can control what they feel. What we can do is work to understand and accept our feelings, manage them better, and reduce their intensity if that is a problem. I tell my clients that even though they cannot control what they feel, most of the time they can control what they do. So my approach blends greater self-awareness with knowledge of how the mind works to help my clients take responsibility for changing their lives. I am an active participant in this process and I do not hesitate to give feedback if the person I am working with is seeking it. My private practice is currently based out of DLF City in Gurgaon. Clients visit me from all over India and Overseas.I meet with clients at my clinic in Gurgaon.I am a psychologist with over 20 years of experience in psychotherapy and counselling, my academic background is as follows:

Doctorate, PhD in Clinical Psychology, from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
M.Phil. In Clinical Psychology from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
MA, in Clinical Psychology from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
BA, in Clinical Psychology from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)
I am a four time Gold Medalist in Psychology, numerous papers and articles have been printed in Academia and popular journals, and frequently interviewed and quoted in magazines, newspapers etc. I bring spirituality into play and look at the holistic wellbeing from mental, physical and emotional, and spiritual angles. Meditation and hypnosis techniques where required are used and explained. For the last 20 years, I have been in private practice in the National Capital Region (NCR), specifically in South Delhi and now in Gurgaon, Haryana. Typical clients are from all socio-economic strata of life, from celebrities, honchos from leading multinational companies, CEOs and Managing Directors of large companies, senior management, middle management and executives from various companies in and around Delhi, and Gurgaon. School children, housewives, young mothers and couples who require marital counseling are my typical clients. My belief is to equip my clients with the knowledge and skills to overcome their hurdles in the quickest possible time and to allow them to resume their normal lives at the earliest.

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Nathupur Road, DLF City 3
Gurugram
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