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Mumbai, November 2025, The Indian Mental Health Summit (IMHS), now in its third year, will return on November 22 and 23 at the Beatle Hotel in Powai, bringing together one of the country’s largest gatherings of psychologists, counsellors, therapists, and students. What began as a small, community-led initiative has steadily grown into a significant national platform for mental health professionals, many of whom, organizers say, continue to work in silos across the country.
This year’s edition will feature over 30 speakers, including senior psychiatrists, psychologists, researchers, and practitioners. The two-day program blends academic depth with experiential engagement: panel discussions, workshops, interactive stalls, therapy-dog sessions, and immersive exhibits that aim to make learning accessible, communal, and practice-oriented.
The summit will address a wide spectrum of current concerns such as postpartum mental health, rising behavioral addictions in children, neuroscience-informed therapeutic work, shifting relationship dynamics, ethical standards, licensure of psychologists, and the growing influence of technology on care delivery.
But beneath the programming lies a deeper objective: strengthening cohesion in a profession that remains scattered and structurally unsupported.
India’s mental health workforce continues to operate with limited coordination between private practices, hospitals, NGOs, schools, and community centers. This fragmentation, organizers say, affects both quality of care and professional well-being.
“Most psychologists in India work in isolation, without any unified system, shared standards, or collective structure,” said founder Pritha Saha Dutta, a Mumbai-based psychologist. “In a country where the psychologist-to-population ratio is 1:100,000, as opposed to 1:3,000 in many Western nations, it becomes vital to create spaces where professionals can meet, learn, and synchronize their efforts. IMHS was built to close that gap.”
Saha Dutta emphasizes that IMHS remains entirely self-funded, a rarity, given that most national conferences are institution-led. The 2025 edition is co-organized by Ruchika Jain, founder of Well Prism, a young psychologist working across Chhattisgarh and Hyderabad.
With more than 300 attendees expected, IMHS 2025 is poised to be its largest and most diverse edition yet. Organizers note that the summit’s growth reflects a shared hunger for community, mentorship, ethical clarity, and solidarity within a field that is expanding rapidly but inconsistently.
The event is supported by a roster of brand partners whose collaboration has helped build its infrastructure. This year’s partners include That Sassy Thing, Therasoft, Conscious Minds Pvt., Cannazo India, Innate Minds, Vybz Health Inc., Elixir Wellness, Rapturous Minds, the Maharashtra Dyslexia Association, Luma Fertility, and Aajicare, a lineup that mirrors the widening intersections of mental health, wellness, education, and community care in India.
Registrations for IMHS 2025 are currently open, though seats remain limited.
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Group discounts available!
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