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Therapy, Mental Health & Meaningful Living

Earthen

For the worlds within us and the worlds that shape us.

Earthen is a contemporary psychology and mental health practice founded by Sonia Patwardhan. We offer thoughtful, collaborative support for individuals, couples, organisations and educational institutions, grounded in trauma-informed, anti-caste, queer-affirmative and neuroaffirmative values.

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About Earthen

Earthen begins with a simple idea: each of us is shaped by many layers, and no two inner worlds are the same.

Like the earth, we hold histories, relationships, identities and experiences that settle, shift and shape how we meet the world.

Therapy is a space to understand yourself a little more, sit with what feels difficult, and explore what might matter to you next.

Two hands patiently untangling a knot of blue thread shaped like a brain — We see therapy as a collaborative process of gently understanding the knots in your mind and life—not fixing who you are, but making more room for awareness, choice and meaningful change.

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Layers, traces, imprints. Complexity being looked at slowly, one layer at a time.

Our Services?

For better mental health, deeper connection, and a more meaningful life

Services at Earthen

Individual counselling
Couples & relationship counselling
Organisational wellbeing
Workshops & training
Psychology & community

Who I work with

You don't have to arrive here with everything figured out. You don't have to be a finished version of yourself.

Anxiety and overwhelmDepressionRelationship and interpersonal concernsIntimacy and sexual concernsIdentity, gender and sexualityLife transitions and directionMeaning, purpose and existential questionsSelf-worth and self-understandingFamily dynamicsEmotional and relational patternsHigh ambition and Burnout

You can just arrive as you are.

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About Sonia

Hey there, I'm Sonia.

I'm a Counselling Psychologist and a NET qualified Assistant Professor. I believe people are far more complex than the problems they bring into a therapy room.

About Sonia

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Earthen philosophy

Being with what is.
Moving towards what matters.

Therapy isn't about becoming a different person. Sometimes it's about understanding yourself more deeply, making room for what you're experiencing, and finding a way forward that feels more like your own.

Earthen

A space to understand what shapes you—and what you might want to change.

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