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Rishi’s Approach to Trauma, Neurodivergence & Healing

Rishi is an AASW-accredited Mental Health Social Worker and EMDR therapist with a strong background in trauma-informed care, autism, ADHD, and culturally responsive practice. He provides evidence-based therapy, including EMDR, ACT, Schema Therapy, CBT, and Motivational Interviewing to support clients navigating stress, identity, and emotional regulation.

Rishi works with couples, families, adults, and young people over 15 across a range of issues, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, grief, and cross-cultural stress. Rishi is passionate about helping people understand themselves and their story, manage complex family relationships with the lens of culture, neurodivergence & intersectionality, and a holistic approach to physical and mental health.

Rishi’s style of therapy is calm, grounded, deeply personal, approachable and focussed on perspective taking, helping clients build insight, self-trust, flexible thinking and resilience. From a client’s perspective, it will feel like a deeply real conversation, loaded with clinical insights, wrapped up in the warm embrace of a social worker.

Rishi also delivers tailored mental health training for executive leaders, schools, and multidisciplinary teams, with a focus on trauma and mental health-informed leadership, burnout prevention, and mental health strategy.

To learn about Rishi’s therapy modalities and EMDR, explore our Treatment Approaches/EMDR

Experience:

    • Psychological First Aid: Critical Incident/Disaster Response.
    • Correctional centres: AOD treatment and repeat offending treatment.
    • Carers Victoria: Carers and parents of high needs individuals. supervising early career social workers, psychologists, and counsellors in the caring profession.
    • EAP and Training Workshops for leaders in Big4 Banks, Private Schools, Pharmaceutical Companies, Private Hospitals, Government Departments, Doctors and Aboriginal Co-ops.
    • Working with young people and carers in the foster care system/adoption.
    • Family and sexual violence victim-survivors.
    • Group treatment: trauma-informed group yoga, respectful relationship programs for people with disability and creative journalling groups.
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The Meaning of Indus

Our name is a nod to the Indus Valley — one of the oldest civilisations, rooted in mindfulness, language, and learning. We honour these origins by making therapy modern, accessible, and grounded in real science and culture.

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Evidence-Based Mental Health Expertise for Complex Human Challenges at Work

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When Leadership Gets Human, We’re Here

  • Tired of coaches who recycle the same one-size-fits-all model?
  • Need help navigating stress, burnout, or team dynamics?
  • Wish you had a clinically trained advisor to unpack the human side of leadership?

We work with leaders, teams, and organisations ready to go deeper. Our services draw from therapeutic models (CBT, ACT, Schema, EMDR), and are grounded in psychology, not pseudoscience.

What We Offer

A clinical deep-dive into your personality, wellbeing, and patterns.

  • Psychometric testing for personality, neurodivergence, stress, and attachment.
  • 4-session mentoring package including comprehensive intake and feedback.
  • Learn what drives you — and what might be holding you back.

Ideal for: self-aware professionals, senior leaders, or those in transition who want to look under the hood for why they lead the way they do.

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Your personal clinical sounding board.

  • Support for navigating complex staff mental health issues.
  • One-on-one mentoring for emotionally intelligent leadership.
  • Guidance on boundaries, burnout, grief, and difficult conversations.

Think: therapy meets executive mentoring, designed for people in high-stakes roles.

Research-backed workshops and keynotes — engaging, practical, and real.

Topics include:

  • Mental Health Awareness
  • Dealing with resistant clients for medical and allied health professionals
  • Effective Communication & Assertiveness
  • Wellbeing and Sleep Hygiene
  • Grief & Loss in the Workplace
  • Men’s Mental Health
  • Neurodivergent-Informed Leadership

Customised options available. Delivered at your workplace or online.

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Why Choose Us?

Choosing the right support matters. We go beyond surface-level coaching to provide evidence-based strategies that work in real life. Our approach is grounded in clinical training, practical experience, and a deep understanding of leaders’ daily pressures. Every step is focused on helping you build confidence, resilience, and clarity — not with templates, but with tools that truly fit you.

  • Clinically trained in comprehensive therapy modalities and real science, not corporate fluff.
  • Flexible, discreet, and tailored — no cookie-cutter frameworks.
  • Designed for humans under pressure — executives, founders, people leaders.

Build insight. Expand your tools. Deal with insecurities. Lead from a deeper place.

“Leadership is personal. Let’s treat it that way.”

Meet Rishi

Rishi Sharma is an accredited Mental Health Social Worker with experience in trauma, neurodivergence, culturally responsive practice, and mental health-informed leadership.

He works with adults, couples, and families — with a style that’s calm, reflective, and deeply human. Therapy with Rishi is a real conversation, backed by clinical insight and lived experience.

You can also read about Mr Otis → Our mascot, who brings his own kind of comfort.

Rishi has personally provided supported, delivered training or has been involved with the following organisations
Rishi has personally provided supported , delivered training or has been involved with the following organisations

The Meaning of Indus

Our name is a nod to the Indus Valley — one of the oldest civilisations, rooted in mindfulness, language, and learning. We honour these origins by making therapy modern, accessible, and grounded in real science and culture.

Ready to start therapy? 

Book Now

Welcome to Indus Therapy

Personalised, trauma-informed care for real people.

We specialise in supporting individuals who have had no or negative experiences with therapy. Every story is different — so our approach is tailored to you. We’re here to help you make sense of your experience and move toward long-term, sustainable change.

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Why Choose Indus?

Personalised Care

We meet you where you're at — whether you're starting therapy for the first time, or returning after being disappointed elsewhere. We tailor our work to your needs, values, culture, and goals.

Flexible Appointments

After-hours and weekend sessions available to suit your schedule. You shouldn't have to choose between work, family and your mental health.

Evidence-Based Therapy

We use globally recognised, research-backed modalities like:

  • EMDR
  • CBT
  • ACT
  • Schema Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing

Free Compatibility Call

Feeling unsure? Book a free 10-minute call to see if we're a good fit.

Meet Rishi

Rishi Sharma is an accredited Mental Health Social Worker with experience in trauma, neurodivergence, culturally responsive practice, and mental health-informed leadership.

He works with adults, couples, and families — with a style that’s calm, reflective, and deeply human. Therapy with Rishi is a real conversation, backed by clinical insight and lived experience.

You can also read about Mr Otis → our mascot, who brings his own kind of comfort.

Services Offered

We support clients experiencing

  • Anxiety, depression, stress & burnout
  • Neurodivergence: ADHD, Autism
  • Men's & Women's Health
  • Cross-cultural family stress
  • Trauma and PTSD (specialised EMDR care)
  • Relationship and parenting support
  • Grief, identity, and self-worth challenges
  • Family and couples therapy
  • Late-diagnosed neurodivergence or suspected traits

We are a good fit for

  • Students, professionals, business owners
  • Interracial couples, migrants & BIPOC families
  • Carers of high-needs individuals
  • People with previous negative therapy experiences

Our Therapy Approaches

The gold standard for trauma therapy.

  • Globally recognised and evidence-based first-order treatment for trauma by the WHO
  • Reduces distress from PTSD, anxiety, grief, and more
  • Helps the brain “unstick” traumatic memories

Challenge unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Learn tools for emotional regulation and healthier thinking patterns.

Helps you move toward your values, even when difficult thoughts and feelings show up.

Explore deeply rooted patterns developed from early life. Helps change long-term emotional responses.

Work through ambivalence and find your inner motivation for change.

  • Solution-Focused Therapy
  • Gestalt Chair Work
  • Strength-Based Practice
  • Culturally Safe, Trauma-Informed Care
  • Group Therapy Facilitation

Clinical Experience

Rishi has provided therapy, training, and supervision in:

  • Correctional centres (AOD & offending treatment)
  • Schools, hospitals & Big4 consulting firms
  • Disaster & critical incident response
  • Carers Victoria (carer wellbeing & neurodivergent family support)
  • Trauma-informed group programs: yoga, journalling, respectful relationships

Rishi as a Human

Rishi is a nerd at heart. He rides motorcycles, enjoys tattoos, stays in fitness, and loves cooking epic meals. He grew up trying to make sense of neurodivergence, trauma, and culture. Therapy with Rishi isn’t clinical in the cold sense — it’s human, authentic, and real.

Mr Otis, his Frenchie, often joins sessions as a support pup. You’re welcome to request his company if that helps you feel grounded.

Success Stories Shared by Our Customers

Highly recommend Indus-therapy!

Rishi is exceptional, he creates a safe and welcoming space where you can openly discuss your concerns. He is compassionate, empathetic, and truly skilled. I was able to have both zoom and in person sessions which was very convenient. Truly transformative!

Radika

I found Rishi to be very understanding and helpful, and never made me feel judged. I definitely recommend him, especially for clients experiencing severe anxiety or trauma. I felt at ease with him from our first session, which can be very rare when seeking help for difficult situations. I would rate him higher if I could.

Ali Swasbrick

Rishi has personally provided support, delivered training or has been involved with the following organisations

The Meaning of Indus

Our name is a nod to the Indus Valley — one of the oldest civilisations, rooted in mindfulness, language, and learning. We honour these origins by making therapy modern, accessible, and grounded in real science and culture.

Ready to start therapy? 

Book Now

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