Sailaja Menon
Psychologist
Licensed Counseling Psychologist
Director, Counseling and Wellbeing Services
Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA
- Speaks : English, Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi
- Experience : 30 years
Overview
Sailaja is an American trained Licensed Counseling Psychologist, with 30 years of clinical experience in the field of Mental Health, Counseling, training, teaching and supervision.
Prior to joining Lifeworks, Sailaja worked in various leading Public and private settings – non-profit mental health centres, prestigious Universities and clinical mental health settings in the USA, Singapore, India and Dubai.
Sailaja graduated as the first Psychologist with a Post Masters Degree specializing in Multicultural Counseling from the world-renowned and prestigious Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA and has a Masters Degree in Psychology from Radford University, Virginia, USA and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Presidency College, Chennai, India. Sailaja is an American of Indian-origin, born in Malaysia and spent her childhood there before moving to India where she spent most of her formative years.
In her clinical capacity, Sailaja strongly emphasizes the importance of incorporating a holistic model of services that takes into consideration the mental/emotional, physical/biological, social, community and the spiritual aspects of the client to ensure well-being and self-sufficiency.
Her theoretical orientation is primarily client centered; however, she is eclectic in her approach and often integrates other models of therapy such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Compassion based therapy, Mindfulness based therapy, Emotion focused therapy, Acceptance and Commitment therapy.
Sailaja works primarily with couples, individuals and families on a broad range of mental health issues.
With Couples, Sailaja has worked extensively on issues related to- relationship issues, breakdown in communication, trust and confidence, loneliness and sadness, inability to adjust to a marital life conflicts with extended families, infidelity, addictions, anger management and abuse.
With Individuals, Sailaja has worked extensively on depression, anxiety, personality issues, anger management, stress management, and issues related to adjustment and acculturation in new surroundings, relationship issues and management, workplace conflicts, loss of identity and grief and loss
With Families, Sailaja has worked extensively on issues related to intergenerational issues, parenting, conflict management, grief and loss, stress management, abusive and dysfunctional family functioning
Therapeutic Approaches:
Couple’s/ Marital therapy
Client Centered 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
Psycho-Educational therapy
- Specializations:
- Educational Qualifications:
- Professional Memberships:
Mood disorder (e.g. Depression)
Adjustment Issues
Marital /relationship issues
Acculturation / Assimilation issues
Intergenerational conflicts
Psycho education
Family conflicts
Issues of transition in youth
Corporate/employee assistance
Academic challenges and behavioral issues in youth
Cross Cultural Training
Post Masters (CAGS- Multicultural Counseling), Johns Hopkins University, USA
MS (Psychology), Radford University, USA
BA (Psychology), Presidency College, Chennai, India
American Counseling Association (ACA),
American Psychological Association (APA)
American Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD)
International Association of Marriage and Family Counseling (IAMFC)

Sailaja Menon
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