About HappeeMindz
Founder
Aishwarya Ajmani holds a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology and is a certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapy practitioner. With a deep passion for helping individuals facing mental health challenges, she founded HappeeMindz. Her vision is to offer preventive services, plan effective interventions, and counsel those dealing with daily emotional conflicts. Committed to raising awareness and reducing the stigma associated with mental health in Indian society, Aishwarya aims to make counseling and mental well-being support accessible and accepted by all.
"You have no control over the uncertainty outside, but you do have control over the uncertainty inside your mind. You have the ability to change your thoughts, perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors. Shift your focus from the outside to the inside."
-Aishwarya Ajmani
Area of Expertise
She has successfully counseled over 1,000 clients, helping them overcome relationship issues, breakups, depression, stress, anxiety, anger issues, grief, low self-confidence, and phobias through both online and offline sessions. In addition to her private practice, she is associated with Forest Essentials and the International Maritime Institute, where she provides counseling sessions for employees and conducts wellness workshops. Her dedication to mental health extends to her work with the India Vision Foundation, founded by Dr. Kiran Bedi, where she has contributed to enhancing the mental well-being of female inmates at Tihar Jail.
Her thoughts on Counselling
Humans are inherently flawed and prone to making mistakes and experiencing emotional distress and during these times, having someone who can listen and understand can make a world of difference. Counseling becomes essential when we struggle to navigate life’s crises and need emotional healing.
Counseling offers a process where clients are provided with a safe, non-judgmental space where they are met with acceptance. This environment allows both the counselor and the client to unravel emotional conflicts together and take steps toward empowering the client's mind.
Counseling helps clients explore a better version of themselves, revealing their inner and hidden potential. By developing insights into their psyche, clients can achieve personal growth and self-discovery. I believe that a therapist must accept clients for who they are, offering unwavering support and care regardless of their experiences and challenges.
Her Approach
"I believe in giving the client unconditional positive regard and showing complete acceptance without casting judgment. I predominantly follow an eclectic approach comprising of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Positive Psychotherapy, Acceptance, and Commitment Therapy, and Solution Focused Therapy."
Her thoughts about Mental Health and Wellness
“When I started to understand the true meaning of human emotions, I was driven by the very thought of how can we find the consistency in emotions of joy and happiness. Over the years, I understood that it is not easy to come by, but it would be wrong to say that it is entirely impossible. We are born with a natural predisposition to bounce back to being happy and blissful in no time at all. However, as and when we evolve, we began to lose touch with our natural state of happiness. We experience a mixture of emotions, anger, frustration, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, and many more. I do believe that our mind holds the immense capacity to regulate our emotional mechanisms so that we can choose what we wish to experience- positive or negative emotions. Abnormality is not feeling intense negative emotions; abnormality is choosing to stick with it.
Our mind is the Central Processing Unit of our body, and it is vital to maintain its smooth functioning of it. This makes it ironic that we have so much stigma around mental health issues all over the world. It’s remarkable that there are professionals that can help us uplift our mental well-being status but we still hesitate to avail the facility. Why? Embarrassed? Ashamed? Humiliated? The question of the hour is; do you care enough about what is going on internally within you? Do you feel embarrassed about addressing what is messing with your head?
There are times when we can resolve your internal conflicts on our own, but there are times when we cannot. We might need some help that doesn’t make us weak, but it makes us human. You need to invest in your happiness, you need to step up to make yourself feel good. Do not wait for others to do this job for you, take charge of your happiness and actively make efforts to achieve it.
It’s possible that you kept seeking ways and means to be happy through material gain, pleasurable stimuli, professional accomplishments, social means, and relationships. However, external inputs cannot manifest a lasting state of joy and happiness. In the quest for happiness, you could be missing out on a chance to be happy right now."
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