Elegance

Institute for Psychological Health (IPH): The Parent Organization
IPH is a social enterprise formally constituted in 1990. The primary objectives of IPH have included providing affordable but quality mental health care facilities; reducing stigma toward mental illness and seeking help from mental health professionals; providing opportunities for mental health enhancement; and giving opportunities to the society to participate in the delivery of mental health care.

Thus, IPH has been active not only in the treatment of psychological problems, but also in preventive and developmental areas of mental health. Since 1990, IPH has reached out to more than twenty eight thousand families through its curative, preventive and development oriented programs and projects on mental health.

• Dr. Anand Nadkarni: A psychiatrist by profession, been helming training programs for almost 2 decades now. Also a renowned writer and dramatist
• Arun Naik: Psychologist and Hypnotherapist, he has been a trainer for about a decade now. Also holds a management degree and is a ISO consultant.
• Deepika Dabke: Counseling Psychologist, part of the training team since 1998. Works as a psychotherapist and currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Emotional Intelligence and Leadership in corporate sector.
• Kuldeep Datay: A Clinical Psychologist by profession, been a part of the assessment and training team for more than a decade. Also works as a therapist for adults, work focus areas include corporate assessment, premarital and marital assessment and counseling, and development of computerized assessment systems.
• Saraswathi A: A practicing psychologist for the past 26 years, has extensive experience in the use of psychometric testing in the industrial set up. Trained and mentored several people. Currently an independent corporate trainer and part of IPH training and assessment team
• Dr. Shubha Thatte: Senior Clinical psychologist with several decades of experience in assessment, training, and individual psychotherapy in different sectors. Is also a invited speaker at PG programs and a Ph.D. guide

Elegance: IPH's Corporate Assessment and Development Center
Elegance is IPH's initiative focused on providing services based on its core competencies to corporate clients. It provides assessment, individual counseling and development, and training inputs to organizations and its employees.

Assessment Solutions
We offer customized assessment solutions in the following areas:

• Employee Selection: Assessment focused on selecting employees with specified attributes related to abilities, personality, intelligence, emotional management capacity etc.
• Employee Problem Detection: Assessment focused on detection of problems including stress and burnout, nature of coping mechanisms, detection of psychological problems and development of intervention plans based on the result
• Relationship and Teams: Assessment that is targeted on determining patterns of relating to others, communication styles and patterns, conflict handling strategies, etc.
• Leadership and Mentoring: Assessments aimed specifically at determining leadership styles, these styles with reference to styles preferred by team members, readiness to mentoring, mentoring capability etc.
• Career Development: Personality, Aptitude / Ability, Interest based assessments helping in determining individuals the most appropriate career options and their readiness for certain careers and stages in career.

Training and Development Solutions
We have been offering tailor - made solutions to our clients based typically on (but not limited to) the following issues:

Individual Inputs:

• Individual mentoring coaching and counseling
• Psychotherapy for problems, distress, and disorders
• Vocational and career counseling