Manasi Auti (She/Her)

Manasi is a mental health practitioner who is interested in the many ways people become who they are. She is often drawn to conversations about identity, belonging, relationships, loss, and the stories people carry about themselves. She approaches this work with curiosity, care, and a genuine interest in what matters to the people she works with.

Her practice weaves together trauma-sensitive, narrative, and relational approaches, grounded in a commitment to social justice. She tries to create spaces where people can bring what’s difficult, messy, or unresolved without feeling the pressure to have it all sorted out.

She has worked with children, adolescents, and young adults across educational, community, and mental health settings, and has supported people through concerns around anxiety, self-worth, identity, grief, loneliness, relationships, family dynamics, academic and career stress, life transitions, and experiences of marginalisation. Alongside individual work, she has facilitated group processes, psychoeducational workshops, and mental health awareness initiatives in institutional and community spaces.

Manasi is particularly drawn to conversations that help people reconnect with their own strengths and values, and to therapeutic work that takes seriously the larger contexts people are living within. She is committed to making mental health spaces more accessible, socially aware, and rooted in dignity.

What keeps her in this work is a deep respect for people’s capacity to endure, adapt, question, and grow. She values the privilege of accompanying people as they make sense of their experiences, find their footing, and begin to relate to their own stories in new ways.

Outside of therapy, you’ll find Manasi disappearing into books, films, and stories; wandering on bike rides through unfamiliar roads; cooking meals for the people she loves; sitting quietly with a changing sky; and seeking out the intimate details of how different places taste, sound, and feel. She finds the world endlessly interesting, whether through treks and long walks in nature, conversations around a shared meal, or simply being still enough to notice what’s unfolding around her.