Aarathi Selvan (They/them) is the founder and a clinical psychologist at Pause for Perspective, Hyderabad. They have nearly two decades of experience in the field of Mental health. They are a supervisor, teacher, and a psychotherapist working with individuals, couples, families and communities.

In the last 13 years of practicing mindfulness and 6 years of practicing through the narrative lens, they have brought together mindfulness and narrative practices in ways that affirm how the body can be experienced through the stance of social justice and liberation.

Aarathi has submitted their doctoral thesis at the University of Madras in understanding one's relationship with their bodies as a way of responding to systemic oppression and privilege. This is a qualitative study of participants in their Mindfulness programs that have a strong narrative stance. Aarathi enjoys learning and living through ideas of liberatory psychology, mad studies, embodied social justice and liberation, narrative practices, anti-caste practices, disability justice and more.

In the aftermath of what was their doctoral studies, Aarathi has gone back to raking up old and new interests in picture books, crocheting, reading chapter books together with their favorite reading partner, messing around with their kids and calling it conversations and worrying about their health and doing something about it once in a while. Aarathi hopes to learn to chill as they grow older and form communities of support in the form of people, books, outdoors and the arts.