Team ManoRaksha
ManoRaksha
We prioritize our clients’ needs at every stage of engagement, delivering personalized, goal-oriented care that responds to each individual’s or institution’s unique challenges and objectives. Through collaborative planning, confidentiality, and measurable outcomes, we ensure that every intervention is practical, culturally sensitive, and aligned with sustainable wellbeing and growth.
Transforming Lives Through Optimizing Mental Health & Growth
Meet our team
Dedicated professionals fostering mental well-being
Shivangi Vyas
Chief Wellness Officer (CWO)
Ms. Shivangi is a clinically trained psychologist who brings both precision and presence into her work. Certified in QPR from the USA, she is known for her sharp, timely interventions, especially in moments that demand clarity, calm, and decisive care. With a Master’s in Clinical Psychology and Astrology, she blends evidence-based therapy with a deep understanding of human patterns, emotions, and inner worlds.
An active member of multiple mental health boards, she is respected for her grounded approach and strong clinical supervision. In school-based mental health programs, she has led the design and delivery of interventions that move beyond theory and translate into real change. Quietly consistent and deeply committed, Ms. Shivangi’s work reflects a simple truth: when insight meets structure, healing becomes sustainable.
Dr. Ankita Singh, IIT-R
Research Officer
Dr. Ankita Singh is a specialist in Biotechnology and Bioengineering from IIT Roorkee, with research expertise at the intersection of protein science, neurobiology, and mental health–related hormonal pathways. Her work focuses on understanding molecular and biochemical mechanisms influencing brain function, stress response, and mental wellbeing, contributing to integrative and translational mental health research.
Urvashi Mishra
Consultant Clinical Officer (CCO)
Ms. Urvashi is an RCI-licensed Clinical Psychologist, currently posted at the District Hospital, Vidisha (NMH, Madhya Pradesh), working where psychology meets real human struggle. From hospital wards to school corridors, she brings calm, clarity, and competence.
Her journey spans Kendriya Vidyalaya and the NCERT Centre, Bhopal, where she turned mental health support into something students could actually relate to. Trained by NIMHANS and the QPR Institute, with specialized courses in Art Therapy, Psychological Assessment, and Rehabilitation, she blends science with creativity and care.
No buzzwords. No shortcuts.
Just grounded, evidence-based work that is quietly strengthening Government of MP programs, one student, one system, one life at a time.
Dr. Vivek Kumar (SMIEEE, Fellow-SCRS)
Consultant & Head of AI Research (NLP & Behavioral AI)
Dr. Vivek Kumar is an internationally recognized researcher and currently a Research Scientist at the ADAPT Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin (University of Dublin). He is a specialist in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generative AI, with a strong focus on integrating machine learning with mental health. His research primarily centers on empathetic AI, safe and responsible AI practices in behavioral therapy, AI bias, sentiment analysis, and psychology-aware language models. Dr. Kumar brings extensive international experience from leading roles in EU Horizon projects, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, and collaborative research across Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia, and India.
P. S. Rajawat, DCMH (NIMHANS), PhD
Founder
Prof. PSR comes from the land of ravines where three Indian states meet, a harsh and beautiful land shaped by resilience, patriotism, and survival. Raised in a family of a soldier and a farmer, he learned early that life is not about comfort or applause, but about duty. Service before self was not a slogan for him, it was a way of life...!!
Long before ManoRaksha became a mission, he lived across extremes. From the Tibetan Himalayas in the north to the Indian Ocean in the south, from the deep forests of the Satpuras among ancient tribes to the nomads of the desert, he chose immersion over observation. He studied cultures, languages, absorbed traditions, and walked spiritual paths through Sufi mysticism, Bhakti, churches in Kolkata, and the masajid of Bhopal. He lived with monks, wandered the northern plains, and read the ancient texts with the same zeal that he later brought to modern science, artificial intelligence & behaviour.
Alongside the ancient sacred texts of healing and existence came psychology, depth of human personality formation, genesis of behaviour, habit formation, cognitive science, neuroscience, cyber and psychological operations, AI and machine learning, robotics, and brain computer interface research. With double doctorates in human behaviour & technology, an accomplished Behaviour Scientist & as a Professor of Global Mental Health, he learned by living. He is India’s first domain scholar from the humanities and psychology honoured by IIT Madras, and his work has been acknowledged by Dr. Judith Beck on the Beck Institute platform for advancing Dr. Aaron Beck’s CBT principles in service of marginalized communities. Apart from being an accredited Jungian Coach, he holds accreditations from NIMHANS India and American Psychological Association, USA. For him, tradition and technology were never opposites. They were tools meant to serve the same purpose, understanding and strengthening the human mind & behaviour.
He worked in remote rural areas on the rehabilitation of addicted tribal communities, supported the reintegration of marginalized women FSWs into mainstream society, and later served as Program Supervisor for the Government of Madhya Pradesh’s UNFPA linked Umang Adolescents, Programme.
Prof. Rajawat popularly known as the People’s Professor in academic spaces and Raja Saheb by the communities he serves. In regions where roads disappear and networks fail, he arrives quietly with a small team, listens first, and acts later. His work stretches from India’s most remote tribal belts to global mental health research ecosystems, without losing its grounding in lived reality...!!
While many sold cozy couch therapy as a product, he focused on outcomes. While trends came and went, he stayed anchored in evidence. He has trained government-certified counsellors across India and led large-scale adolescent mental health programs, not as paperwork or pilot models, but as change that can be measured on the ground. Today, he serves as a mentor, policy consultant, and advisor to various national and international organizations, continuing to serve people by integrating ethos with discipline....!