The Founder
Dr. Nitasha Borah
Dr. Nitasha Borah is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with twenty years of training in clinical depth and integrated mental health work across private practice, academia and organisations. She holds an M.Phil and PhD in Clinical Psychology and is registered with the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI CRR A18071).
Her clinical internships were undertaken at the Institute of Mental Health and Hospital, Agra; Foundation Hope, New Delhi; and Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, Rohini, Delhi. She subsequently served as an Under Secretary in the Government of Jammu & Kashmir and as faculty at the Goa Institute of Management from 2014 to 2019.
Dr. Borah is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy at Levels 1 & 2 from the Australian DBT Institute and holds EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 Practitioner & Coach certifications from Multi Health Systems (U.K) and Par Excellence Leadership Solutions, India. She completed the Transformative Teachers Program (2018) offered by the Dalai Lama Centre for Ethics and Transformative Values, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is India's first-certified Good Enough Parenting (GEP) Facilitator and serves as the exclusive India partner of Louis Counselling & Training Services, Singapore. She is an International Affiliate of the American Psychological Association, including APA Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology). Her academic work includes a book chapter on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents (Springer, 2022) and peer-reviewed papers on alexithymia, attachment patterns and substance dependence. She was awarded a Gold Medal for her M.A. in Clinical Psychology and holds a Netherlands Fellowship (NUFFIC) for postgraduate study at the University of Amsterdam.
Dr. Borah is currently a second-term appointed member of the Goa State Mental Health Authority. Her private practice is based in Goa, where she sees individuals and couples across a range of presentations.
The Practice Commons is her response to two gaps she observed across her training and years of practice: too many practitioners are trained in technique without being supported as the person who carries that technique; and the most rigorous international training, the kind that builds genuine clinical depth, routinely sits behind travel costs and registration fees that place it out of reach for most practitioners in India. The platform exists to address both, through supervision, rigorous training, sustained peer engagement, and by bringing international faculty and their programmes to India at rates that make participation possible.