
DURGA MENON
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy | Nature-based Practices
ONLINE PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY & NATURE-BASED PRACTICES
“Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.”
- Carl Gustav Jung, Analytical Psychology
PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND NATURE-BASED PRACTICES
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an insight-oriented approach. My interest in insight-oriented psychotherapy stems from the impact that slow, intentional self-awareness can create, acting as a catalyst for change. Insight is a valuable tool for observing, feeling, and finding words for the self by gently integrating aspects of your lived experience of mental health. This approach includes free associative thinking, pattern analysis, perspective-building, and working with the unconscious and subconscious. This invites a deeper understanding of emotional regulation, mental states, and personalities in response to dynamic relationships and situations.
Nature-based practices intends to offer a grounding presence to facilitate and develop language for unconscious work by engaging in self-enquiry with curiosity. By emphasising that the human psyche is a part of nature invites the perspective of experiencing the self as a natural being beyond societal constructs of identity and mental health. This allows the body and environment to compliment the development of insight and perspective-building. This stance suggests ways we can re-imagine your experience of mental health as interconnected and linked, thereby exploring new ways to inform renewal, reparation and self-care.
Therapeutic Care can be visualized through this collaborative illustration I created with Sanjay - 'A re-imagination of depth where psyche and nature are intertwined representing the dialogue between human and nature to rekindle connection and belonging with the self and others through rhizomatic growth and non-linearity'.

Unfolding with the Nature - Psyche Spiral
A fiddle fern frond (originallly found in Himachal Pradesh, India) symbolizes rhizomatic growth. It emerges out of a spiral staircase that symbolizes non-linearity of human life. The staircase represents positionality, dynamisn and perspective as we endevour to understand the self from varying vantage points in a therapeutic relationship
WHO I WORK WITH
Durga provides online individual sessions only. She works with the Indian adult demographic.
Her primary areas of support include attachment history and relationship dynamics, grief, trauma and abuse, personality difficulties, and queer and neuroaffirmative care. meets clients twice a week or every week for effective insight-oriented therapy. She speaks English and can understand Hindi.
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Attachment History
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Grief and Loss
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Self and Identity
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Anxiety
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Depression
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Trauma and Abuse
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Relationship Dynamics
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Transitions (life and career)
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Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Affirmative Care
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Personality Difficulties
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Navigating Neuro-nonconformity

Image Credit: Wix Gallery
CORE VALUES OF MY PRACTICE
Renewal as a Slow Becoming


Process-oriented
Authentic
Relational
1 TO 1 SESSIONS
Each of our journeys within is unique, and can be witnessed and worked through when we can acknowledge our wholeness through guidance and care.
The space between the circles symbolizes the momentary movement within the therapeutic alliance - an ebb and flow between the therapist and client that requires breathing space for deliberate co-creation and working through unconscious patterns. These shifts indicate transformation through insight, self-reflection, and reality-confrontation.
The dark olive green broad stroke symbolizes nurturance, awakening, and sustenance, and the fine midnight blue stroke signifies depth and integrity.
The saddle brown centre implies that humanity is linked to nature. We belong to our history, context, and the environment around us. Our lived experiences of mental health cannot be seen in isolation or as just a psychological symptom. Through embodiment, we can look at our mental health through the earth-body-mind connection.
Tagline, 'Renewal as a Slow Becoming' was generated using AI
HOW I SUPPORT
Long-term psychodynamic therapy or insight-oriented therapy aims to uncover unconscious patterns gently and slowly, allowing the client to develop the capacity for perspective-building and insight-oriented depth work by identifying unconscious patterns that impact well-being. Long-term psychotherapy allows for psychosocial intervention and relational work.
FEES
₹ 2,400 (in India) and ₹ 4,000 (outside India)

Image Credit: Wix Gallery