Anxiety Disorders
Generalised anxiety, social anxiety, panic, and phobias
Sindhu Upadhyay Wadhwa
Founder & Clinical Director
Clinical PsychologistPsychotherapistMental Health Speaker & EducatorClinical Director, MindGuild
22+ years Clinical ExperiencePhD CandidateBeck Institute, CBTNIMHANS certified
Sindhu Upadhyay Wadhwa is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist, and the Founder and Clinical Director of MindGuild Academy. With over 22 years of clinical experience, she has worked with individuals, couples, families, and organisations across a broad range of psychological, emotional, and relational concerns.
“My work has always been rooted in one conviction: people are capable of far more than symptom management. Therapy, done well, creates lasting change.”
Her practice integrates evidence-based psychotherapy, neuroscience, mindfulness, and culturally informed mental health approaches. Known equally for her clinical rigour and her ability to make complex psychological ideas genuinely accessible, Sindhu helps clients navigate mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, identity, and the particular pressures of high-functioning professional life. She works in close collaboration with senior psychiatrists to provide comprehensive psychopharmacological care for clients with severe mental illness.
Her Philosophy
How she thinks about psychological change.
Sindhu's therapeutic philosophy is grounded in a belief that distinguishes her approach from symptom-focused models of mental health care.
“Emotional distress is often not a sign of weakness - it is a signal that existing ways of coping are no longer serving the individual effectively.”
Her therapeutic approach focuses on understanding the deeper patterns influencing emotions, relationships, and life choices. Drawing from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, attachment theory, neuroscience, and contemporary psychotherapy frameworks, she works collaboratively with clients to develop insight, emotional flexibility, resilience, and genuine psychological wellbeing.Therapy, in Sindhu's practice, is not about reducing symptoms and stopping there. It is about helping people build a stronger relationship with themselves and create lives that are meaningfully aligned with their values and aspirations.
Her integrative approach draws from-
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)Mindfulness-based interventionsAttachment theoryNeurosciencePsychodynamic frameworksCultural psychologyPsychopharmacology collaboration
Areas of expertise
What she treats and who she works with.
Sindhu works with adults, couples, adolescents, and high-functioning professionals navigating a wide range of psychological and relational challenges.
OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder — specialist training from NIMHANS
Mood Disorders
Depression, bipolar mood, affective disorders, and emotional dysregulation
Relationships & Couples
Marital therapy, relational patterns, communication, and attachment ruptures
Trauma & Attachment
Complex trauma, PTSD, early attachment wounds, and relational recovery
Parenting & Adolescents
Teen mental health, parenting systems, and family dynamics
Women's Wellbeing
Identity, transitions, caregiving load, and emotional health across life stages
High-functioning Professionals
Burnout, leadership stress, performance anxiety, and identity under pressure
Credentials & Qualifications
The training behind 22 years of clinical practice.
PhD Candidate in Psychology ( Currently pursuing )
Bangalore
Master's degree in Clinical Psychology
Advanced clinical certifications
Advanced Certification in CBT for Anxiety and Mood Disorders
Beck Institute, USA
Master Therapist Certification
Counsel India
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
NIMHANS, Bangalore
CBT for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
NIMHANS, Bangalore
Advisory & Industry work
Psychology beyond the therapy room.
Beyond private practice, Sindhu contributes actively to mental health education, leadership development, and workplace wellbeing, through advisory, facilitation, and organisational consulting roles.
- Mental Health Advisor, Triomph India
- Mental Health Facilitator, Women in Insurance India
- Mental Health Coach, Spinach Learning
- Clinical Psychology Product Advisor, Baatu India
- NeuroLeadership Facilitator, Boston Consulting Group, Flipkart (Multinational leadership programmes )
She has designed and delivered programmes in emotional resilience, leadership effectiveness, mental wellbeing, communication, stress management, and neuroscience-informed performance for some of India's most demanding professional environments.
Why she built MindGuild
The institution she wished had existed when she began.
Photo by Aradhita Wadhwa
MindGuild was not conceived as a business. It was conceived as a response to two decades of watching the same pattern repeat: talented, well-meaning psychology graduates entering clinical practice underprepared, not because they lacked intelligence or care, but because the system gave them no structured bridge from education to clinical readiness.
Having trained internationally, collaborated with leading psychiatrists, and spent over two decades building clinical depth through practice, supervision, and continuous learning, Sindhu understood both what that bridge needed to look like and why no one in India had built it yet.
“MindGuild is the training I had to piece together across 22 years. We are building it so the next generation doesn't have to.”
As Founder and Clinical Director, Sindhu leads the academic direction, clinical philosophy, and curriculum architecture of MindGuild with the long-term ambition of making it India's most respected institution for psychotherapy training and psychological leadership.
Train with Sindhu
Join the founding residency cohort.
Supervised by India's most experienced psychotherapy educators.