Volunteers

List of volunteering Mentors, Counselors, and Special Educators

Mentors Profile

Some of our prominent volunteer mentors who has significantly contributed towards the emotional well being of the community by constant mentorship & counselling to the EMBRACE community counsellors & parents.

  • Annapoorani Chockalingam

    M.A Child Mental Health, Diploma in Counseling skills, Diploma in Specific Learning Difficulties.

    Ms.Annapoorni. C has 25 years of experience in Special Education field and 10 years of experience in Counselling field. She worked at BRINDAVAN EDUCATION TRUST for 25 years as special educator. She was faculty, Coordinator and Examiner of Diploma courses in SLD in KPAMRC of Karnataka.

  • Sheela Kamath

    M.A Psychology, B.Ed, Diploma in Special Education (LD), Diploma in Counselling.

    Sheela kamath has been in field of Special Education and Counselling for past 20 years. She is a special educator and counselor in Brindavan Education Trust Bangalore. She is rendering her services to Child Guidance Centre, Prasanna Counselling. She counsels adoptees and adoptive parents. She is working towards well being of children and parents.

  • Sowmya Srikumar

    M.A Social Work, M.Phil Psychiatric Social Work, Diploma in Counselling, Diploma in Special Education (LD).

    Sowmya has been working in Leap Years, centre for children with special needs. She help them design and execute the academic curriculum for children. She has been doing counselling programs for individuals, parents, couples, families and children who require the same. She has graduated from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Bengaluru, and working in field of mental health for more than 20 years.

  • Nausheen Hussian

    M.A Child Mental health, M.A Counselling and Family Therapy, M.Phil Psychology, Special Educator.

    Ms.Nausheen Hussain has been in the field of Counseling and Special Education from the last ten plus years. She is a certified Special Educator from Rehabilitation Council of India. She has been helping families of specially abled children through counselling and remedial sessions.

Counselor Volunteers

Anusha Nimma M.Sc Psychology, Counselor, Guntur Andhra Pradesh.
Aruna Prabhakar B.E, Counselor, Vasanthapura Bangalore.
Banu Arjun Counselor and special educator, Chennai.
Chitra rajkumar M.S, B.Ed School and Corporate Counselor, Chennai.
Ekktha Chhabria BA Psychology Counselor, Graphologist Bangalore.
Geeta Ramasetti MA Psychology , Bangalore.
Geeta Subramanian B.Ed, M.Sc Diploma in Community Health, Bangalore.
B. Gireesh M.Sc Counseling & Psychotherapy, Life coach, Counselor Kochi kerala.
Grace M. Basanshrieh M.Phil (Community Mental health) Shillong, Meghalaya.
Grace Maria George B.Com, M.Com Counselor Bangalore.
Krishna Raman B.com, M.Ed, D.Ed in ASD, Counselor, Bangalore.
Milli Chakrobarthy Master’s in Physics, Psychology, Counselor, Harlur, Bangalore.
Nayanashree BA Psychology, Counselor, Banashankari Bangalore.
Neha Jain Master’s in Clinical Psychology, Bangalore.
Pallavi Mishra B.Ed ID, Counselor Varanasi.
Priya B B.E, Special Educator, Counselor, Bangalore
Priyadarshini MA, M.Sc, Counselor and Psycho Therapist Coimbatore.
Rakhi Bist Pundir M.A Psychology, Counselor, Kolkata.
Rachana Thaker Counselor, Bangalore.
Reena Counselor Psychotherapist, Bangalore.
Dr. Sarita Jamkhindikar BHMS MA Psychology, Counselor, Mumbai.
Dr.Shylaja B.Sc, M.A, Ph.D, Counsellor, Bangalore.
Sridevi Cheruvu M.Sc, MA psychology Counselor, Hyderabad.
Sini Biju BBM DECE, Counselor, Peramangalam Thrissur Kerala.
Sneha Dutta Master’s in psychology, Counselor, Special educator, Kolkata.
Suman Ranka B.com, Counselor, Bangalore.
Uma. B.K MA Psychology, Counselor, CBT and REBT Practitioner Anjanapura, JP Nagar, Bangalore.
Vandana MA in Clinical Psychology, Bangalore.
Vinoth Babu BCA, MCA PGDHRM, NLP Practitioner, EI Trainer Chennai TN

Facilitators Profile (NIOS Adaptation project)

Some of the special educators who facilitated & coordinated NIOS secondary adaptation project for EMBRACE.

  • Hema Bhatia

    She has Ecc.ed along with B.ed in special education(LD, with an experience of around 8 years in this field from Mumbai. She is a freelancer. She has worked with dyslexic, ADHD, slow learners as well as mild to moderate autistic children.

  • Kalpana Sankar

    Kalpana is Special educator with a Post graduate Diploma in Multiple Disabilities and a Certified NILD Educational Therapist with a teaching experience of 15 + years from Chennai. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Education and also practicing as Educational Therapist.

  • Sathyabhama Narayanan

    Sathyabhama M.Sc, Dip in SLD entered the teaching career as a Mathematics teacher. She has experience of about 8 years of teaching in Bangalore. She has experience in teaching both specially abled children and neuro typical children. The love and passion towards the children and their learning keeps her going.

  • Banu Arjun

    Banu Arjun BA, B.Ed and MA in Sociology, Diploma in Special Education and Counseling, Internationally trained Abacus Facilitator, trained in Vedic Maths and Phonetics. She is from Chennai. She is the Director and Co-Founder of Beads N words.

  • Dr. Indumathi. S

    Indumathi is a dentist from Bangalore. She changed her career as Special Educator as her child had difficulty in speaking and learning in his early years of childhood. She is certified Child Development Consultant, Art Therapist and Counselor with experience of 8+ years as special educator.

  • Priya Balasubramanian

    Priya is a software engineer and a certified special educator. She has been working as a special educator for 5+ years. As a special educator, volunteered in different areas related to children and academics. Priya works closely with children having different needs towards their overall development.

  • Renu Goyal

    Renu Goyal has completed B.Tech in CS from IET, Lucknow. Her interest in teaching and learning brought her to Education. She is one of the founding members of Aurinko Academy. During this journey, she enhanced her skills and completed MBA from IMT Ghaziabad. She is also a special educator and completed her Diploma in Special Education from KPAMRC, Bangalore.

  • Viraja

    A very enthusiastic and energetic volunteer who helps in adapting the lessons for specially abled children. Viraja has done her B.Tech. Her intention and passion to help special need children was immense.

Special Educator Volunteers

Beverly Sujit D.Spl Ed (MR), Special Educator Mumbai.
Chantelle Saldana PGDMLT Special Education/Counselor, Kagilipura-Kanakapura road, Bangalore.
Gayathri Senior Special educator, Alpha to Omega, Chennai.
Haritha Meda Special educator, Bangalore.
Madhushree Bhat B.E, Diploma in SLD, Counselor, Bellandur Banagalore.
Meenakshi .P M.Sc. B.Ed Diploma in SLD, Special Educator, HSR layout, Bangalore.
Nisha Narayanan M.Sc Electronic, Special educator, Haralur Road, Bangalore.
Pavithra NIOS adaptation project volunteer.
S. Arjun B.Com, NIOS adaptation project volunteer.
Savita Sharma Bhardwaj M.Phil, B.Ed (ID)Special Educator, Bikaner, Rajasthan.
Selvarani B.E, MA, Special Educator, Counselor, Chennai.
Shakkeela Narikkoottungal B. Tech(E&C), Special Educator HSR Layout, Bangalore.
Shweta Taneja MBA Certification in Inclusive education, Inclusive teacher Mumbai.
Sucharitha Karthik MCA Diploma in SLD, Special Educator, Banaglore.
Suja Varghese BA Psychology, MA, B.Ed Special Educator Bhopal.
Sunitha R M.Sc, B.Ed Doddanekundi, Marathahalli Bangalore.
Rohitesh Sharma BE, MBA, NIOS adaptation project volunteer Bellandur, Bangalore.
Tinu Anna Sam MBA, Diploma in SLD and IE, Special Educator, Bommanahalli, Bangalore.