A stammer, and 6,000 hours of showing up for other people

Sohini Rohra is a counselling psychologist, author, and mental health advocate. She holds a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling Psychology.

She is the author of Cancelled to Crowned, an Amazon bestseller, and her second book, The Hope Habit, explores the psychology of hope and its role in helping people navigate uncertainty, adversity, and emotional change.

As a counselling psychologist, Sohini's areas of expertise include anxiety, self-worth, emotional regulation, and psychological resilience. Her work focuses on making mental health conversations more accessible, nuanced, and relevant to everyday life.

She is also the host of Cancelled to Crowned with Sohini, a mental health and conversations podcast that explores personal stories, emotional struggles, resilience, and transformation.

Sohini has been featured across leading Indian media publications and has contributed numerous articles to prominent national platforms on mental health, psychology, relationships, self-worth, and emotional well-being.

Through her writing, psychology work, and public conversations, Sohini brings together psychology and lived experience to examine one of the most fundamental human capacities: the ability to find and sustain hope, even in difficult times.

The energy that burns through pain holds the power to heal. This transition from victim to victor is just a turn along the same path.

Sohini Rohra, Femina — from the book

How she got here

2015 to now

Childhood

A severe stammer, and the bullying that came with it

Years of being unable to speak easily, being bullied for it, and having no one to turn to. It is the origin of everything that came later.

Education

MA in Psychology, and a postgraduate diploma in Integrative Counselling

Formal training in psychology, followed by specialisation in integrative counselling — the framework she still practises in today.

2015 — present

Private practice in Mumbai

Over 6,000 clinical hours working with clients across anxiety, depression, burnout, relationships, boundaries, grief and self-worth.

2024

Publishing Cancelled to Crowned

Her memoir, written as an act of advocacy — a story about the things that try to cancel us, and the strength that comes from surviving them.

Today

Author, podcaster, and advocate

13 full-length podcast episodes, writing on mental health, and a public conversation about therapy that millions have watched.

What therapy with Sohini is actually like

Four things

01 Understand, don't fight Anxiety isn't an enemy to be defeated. Once you understand what it is trying to protect you from, it stops running the show.

02 Confidentiality first Therapy depends on you feeling genuinely safe. That safety is the first thing we build, and the thing I protect most carefully.

03 Collaborative, not prescriptive There is no script. At times that means trial and error — but it is always something we do together, never something done to you.

04 Self-awareness as the goal Not just feeling better right now, but learning to notice your own patterns early enough to catch a spiral before it starts.

If any of that sounds like something you are living through, the first step is a conversation — not a commitment.

Sessions are in Mumbai and online. No referral needed.

Talk to Sohini