Sudha is a doctoral researcher at King’s College London within the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, where her work focuses on trauma, identity, and the understanding of spiritual crises after a traumatic event, and exploring tools to heal spiritually via Eastern Philosophies. She holds two Master’s degree in both Clinical Psychology and Counselling and has developed a practice grounded in evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, EMDR, and Psychodynamics.

Her research examines how trauma disrupts the structure of the self, often leading to rigid identity formations and prolonged psychological distress. Her research proposes a culturally informed framework that brings together contemporary neuroscience, psychology and contemplative traditions such as Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism to explore ego flexibility, non-identification, and meaning-making in recovery.Sudha's interdisciplinary approach draws on both Western psychological science and classical Indian philosophy. She has undertaken formal study in Hindu philosophical traditions, including the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, yoga sutras, Tantra, sankhya philosophy, and intent to incorporates concepts such as ahamkara (ego), sākṣī-bhāva (witnessing awareness), and anatta (non-self) into her theoretical and clinical work.

Alongside her academic work, Sudha has extensive clinical experience in trauma counselling across diverse settings, including mental health hospitals and Clinical environments and international practice contexts. She has worked with individuals presenting with complex trauma, anxiety, depression, and personality-related difficulties, and has been involved in psychological assessment, case formulation, and therapeutic intervention.

Her broader vision is to contribute to a more integrative model of mental health care that honours both scientific rigor and the depth of human subjective experience, particularly in culturally diverse populations. She aims to explore the intersection of psychology, spirituality, and consciousness, with a focus on how individuals make meaning of suffering and move toward psychological and existential freedom.