Sailaja Menon is a highly experienced Licensed Counselling Psychologist with a diverse background in mental health, counselling, training, teaching, and supervision. She has worked in various public and private settings, including non-profit mental health centres, renowned universities, and clinical mental health settings in the USA, Singapore, India, and Dubai.
Sailaja holds a Post Masters Degree specialising in Multicultural Counseling from Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA, which makes her the first psychologist to graduate with this specialisation. She also has a Masters Degree in Psychology from Radford University, Virginia, USA, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Presidency College, Chennai, India.
Sailaja's clinical approach emphasises the importance of a holistic model of services that takes into account the mental/emotional, physical/biological, social, community, and spiritual aspects of the client to ensure overall well-being and self-sufficiency.
Sailaja works extensively with couples, individuals, and families, addressing a broad range of mental health issues. In couple's therapy, she focuses on relationship issues, breakdown in communication, trust and confidence, loneliness, adjustment difficulties, conflicts with extended families, infidelity, addictions, anger management, and abuse.
With individuals, Sailaja addresses depression, anxiety, personality issues, anger management, stress management, adjustment difficulties, relationship issues, workplace conflicts, loss of identity, grief, and loss. In family therapy, she helps with intergenerational issues, parenting challenges, conflict management, grief and loss, stress management, and dysfunctional family functioning.
Sailaja utilises various therapeutic approaches tailored to the unique needs of each client, including couple's/marital therapy, client-centred therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-focused therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), supportive therapy, mindfulness and compassion-based therapy, critical incident stress debriefing, family therapy, and psycho-educational therapy.
“Evidence-based care tailored to each patient — taking the time to explain options and shared decisions.”
— Sailaja Menon