Faculty

Pallavi Chander is an artist, facilitator, and creative arts therapist with over 15 years of experience working across schools, special needs centers, arts collectives, charities, and hospital settings in India and the UK. Based in Bangalore, India, she works with neurodivergent individuals, differently-abled children and adults, and young people facing behavioral or mental health challenges, along with their caregivers. Pallavi is passionate about integrating the arts—drama, movement, visual arts, storytelling, music, and play – into therapeutic and educational spaces, fostering culturally relevant and inclusive mental health practices.

She is a certified Arts-Based Therapist, trained with WCCLF, Pune (2012), and completed her postgraduate training in Drama and Movement Therapy at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (RCSSD), London, supported by the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship in 2015. Her therapeutic approach is influenced by arts-based therapy and the Sesame approach, which draws from Jungian psychology, Laban movement analysis, play theory, and Billy Lindkvist’s work on Movement with Touch and Sound. Currently, she leads community-based projects across South India under the initiative “Turiya,” collaborating with grassroots organizations and institutions to explore research, education, and indigenous approaches to mental well-being through a social justice lens.