Shravani Bhattacharyya

Shravani Bhattacharyya is a psychologist, educator, and researcher dedicated to advancing the health and well-being of both people and the environments they inhabit. Her practice and inquiry lie at the rich intersections of environmental psychology, trauma healing, urban planning, and community placemaking. As the founder of The Spaces and Mental Health Studio, she offers somatic, trauma-informed, and place-conscious care through psychotherapy, group facilitation, workshops, webinars, and public storytelling— reimagining healing as a relational, embodied, and ecological process.

Shravani’s research centers on the dynamic interplay between individuals and their surroundings-
focusing on rapidly urbanizing landscapes. She explores the relationship of Mental Health with residential, open urban spaces, place attachment, collective belonging to broader concerns such as climate change. She investigates how cities and ecological systems shape Mental Health, identity, and memory, with a special interest in the intergenerational and long-term impacts of spatial experiences on well-being.

Shravani holds an MSc in Clinical Psychology from Christ University, a BA (Hons) in Psychology from Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi, and a PG Diploma in Urban Planning and Development from IGNOU. Her transdisciplinary foundation was shaped by her Master’s thesis on rapid urban change and Mental Health. Since 2019, she has actively shared her research findings at international and national conferences on environmental psychology, sustainability, and Mental Health. Her 2022 article, Exploring Human Connections with Living Spaces during the Covid-19 Pandemic, was published in China Daily (Culture Hong Kong edition). As a Fellow and Chapter Representative at the Centre for Conscious Design, Shravani leads Conscious Guwahati, curating participatory events exploring heritage identities, place-based healing, building deliberate connection with place and time through urban design that supports community well-being. She received the Best Paper Award for Spatial Favorability and Its Influence on Health and Well-being at the 2024 International Conference on Positive Psychology.

In 2024, she presented at an international Intergenerational Trauma Summit, sharing insights on generational place connections—work that later became The IT in Design. In 2025, she curated City of Areca Palms: Along the Banks of Luit, a city event initiative integrating ecology, culture, and mental health to reimagine cities that are emotionally attuned to the well-being of their residents

Her diverse projects—from leading The Motherhood Project, a postpartum mental health and psychoeducation initiative, to co-authoring Kixuri: A Book for Adolescent Girls, and her work across Vietnam on LGBTQIA+ rights, safe sexual health and gender identity education — reflect a commitment to integrated, intersectional care that transcends borders and disciplines. As a Child Life Specialist with Mission Smile, she has supported cleft patients and their families in surgical camps nationwide, embodying trauma-aware, compassionate care in medical settings. She also represented India at the Asia Student Leadership Conference in Singapore.

She is guided by phenomenological, salutogenic, and trauma-aware frameworks—and by a quiet but unrelenting drive to co-create healing ecosystems that restore rootedness, emotional attunement, and joy in both people and place through collaborative, interdisciplinary knowledge exchange.