Dr. Dhanya Chandran

Dr Dhanya Chandran is a Clinical Psychologist certified by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI), the prime body which provides professional accreditation for practice in India. She completed her education in various universities across the country and has been associated with the institution since 2018. She excels in providing psychological assistance through assessment, counselling, psychotherapy and rehabilitation services for various mental health conditions. She is currently serving as Head of the Department and handles daily out-patient services in the Clinical Psychology Unit as well as Neuropsychology Unit. 

In addition, Dr Dhanya is the course coordinator for the MPhil Clinical Psychology programme run by the department . She is actively involved in academic-clinical training and supervision of M.Phil Clinical Psychology trainees. She is also guiding PhD level research work and serves as co-guide for collaborative researches. She has varied research interests and is keen to explore and practice scientific research-oriented paradigms in clinical psychology. 

• Psychological Assessments Intelligence 

  Testing, Personality Assessments, Psychodiagnostic evaluation, Neuropsychological assessments 

• Adult Psychotherapy 

  Supportive Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Marital Therapy, Group Psychotherapy

• Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 

  Cognitive retraining remediation 

• Malayalam 
• Tamil 
• Kannada 
• Bengali 
• Hindi 
• English

• Member of Board of Studies, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Social Work, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore 
• University external examiner for M.Phil & M.Sc Clinical Psychology programmes. 
• Course coordinator for 2-year M.Phil Clinical Psychology programme 
• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) awarded by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India - 2012. 
• Reviewer for project 'Standardization of MMPI-III India (for Clinical Population)' initiated by Pearson India in collaboration with University of Minnesota initiated in July 2021. 
• Editor of conference proceedings on 'School Mental Health: Current Status and Future Directions' ISBN: 978-93-5382-300-9 
• Research proposal submitted towards training course 'Cross fertilized research training for new Investigators in Egypt and India' selected for award of financial grant from University of Pittsburgh, USA (Feb-Aug 2016) under #D43TW009114.
• Selected as Emerging Psychologist under ICP2016 Emerging Psychologists Program organised by International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Yokohama, Japan in July, 2016. 
• Volunteer for National Disaster Management Team for the Uttarakhand cloudburst emergency in July 2013.