Dr. Prerna Kohli is a wellness specialist. Her unique specialization lies in combining professional psychological practice with pscho-spiritual techniques for providing counseling for holistic and integrated wellness. With her sensitive and empathetic approach, she has helped save thousands of lives, thousands of relationships to sustain and dozens of organizations improve their employee wellness and productivity. Long before people in India started to discuss the connection between the mind and body, Dr. Prerna Kohli was conducting workshops and counseling sessions in this domain. Through her healing techniques and positive philosophy, thousands have learned how to create more of what they want in their lives, including more wellness in their bodies, minds, and spirits.She carries her passion of wellness to the social sector as well as brings these skills into the policy advocacy platforms of the government. Dr. Kohli’s mission is to create abundance of wellness for people on the planet.
Dr. Prerna Kohli’s body of work is based on
the fundamental principle that by increasing one’s self-awareness through
therapy which brings about conscious change in your life, you can achieve
authentic happiness, greater creativity and deeper intimacy. She offers
holistic solutions for mental, physical and emotional wellbeing that help
create positive personal power and the feeling of being in control. Her
approach is based on the foundation of participation in the healing process
compassionately with the sustained belief that each person can find his or her
own way to meet life's challenges and changes bravely, joyfully and
constructively. Therefore, psycho-somatic, psychodynamic, and psycho-spiritual tools
and techniques form an important part of her practice.
Besides her work with individual/family
clients, Dr. Kohli also works with a large number of business/non-business
organizations offering transformational workshops on subjects ranging from
organizational leadership and soft skills to organizational behavior
modification, collective intelligence enhancement, group identities and
organizational behavior etc.
Dr. Kohli did her Master’s in Psychology
followed by an M.Phil in M Phil in Clinical on Social & Environmental
Factors of Depression in Children and Adolescents. She then completed her
Doctorate in Clinical Psychology on the subject of attitudes towards life in
relation to social and personality variables amongst alcoholics.She is
Certified Teacher Trainer with “Louise Hayes’ Heal Your Life”, certified
Advance DNA1 Theta Healer, and a certified “Organization Development
Alternatives (ODA)” Executive Life Coach and Hypnotist.
Dr Kohli has beena practicing Clinical
Psychologist since 1993 provide counseling to individuals, couples, families,
adolescents and children. She specializes in Life Skills Coaching, Relationship
Counseling, Psycho-spiritual Healing, Personality Development, Substance Abuse,
Effective Parenting / Family Therapy. Her clients are located all over the
world and she is one of the few psychologists of India who also provides
counseling services over telephone, internet and interactive platforms like
SMS, Whatsapp etc. besides personal one-to-one sessions.
Dr Kohli also provides group counseling to
corporate entities in the form of workshops and training session. She has delivered
over 300 person days of workshops covering diverse subjects like Building a
Positive Group Attitude, Winning Strategies for Success, Motivation and Personality
Development for increased employee productivity, Goal Setting, Values and
Vision, Time Management, Communication Skills, Leadership&Mentoring, Work
Ethics and Professionalism, Importance of Grooming etc.
Besides being a psychologist and a corporate
counselor, she has been a Consulting Advisor to a Global Wellness Company based
out of NCR since 2000. She has been steering the company’s Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) and Customer Care Verticals. She is also the key trainer of the company. She has established the
Finishing School & Vocational Training Institute of the Company which is
now one of the key partners of the Ministry of Skill Development, Government of
India in the skill development sector.
Dr Kohli has also been the Head for CII
Committee on Core Issues of Women dealing with Vocational Skills Training,
Gender Issues and Foeticide. She is the Member of Censor Board, Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting, Government of India and the Mind Trainer for the
Beauty & Wellness Sector Skill Council set up by the Ministry of Skill
Development and the National Skill Development Council. She was also the
independent expert on the Committee on Junk Food set up by the Ministry of
Women and Child Development.
Besides being a professional psychologist and
a corporate Advisor, Dr Kohli has been contributing a lot of time to socially
oriented organizations in various capacities, from being a founder to being a
fund raiser. Her main focus is on the disadvantaged persons including children.
Some of the initiatives where she has been associated include:
• Khushii
– an NGO promoted by world renowned cricketer Mr. KapilDev, focused on working
for the up-liftment of poor and destitute communities in both rural and urban
areas in India.
• Amar
Jyoti – an NGO by Padmashri Mrs. Uma Tuli, is a voluntary organization
rendering rehabilitative services to persons with disabilities through a
holistic approach of inclusive education, medical care, vocational training,
child guidance and self-employment.
• Tamanna
– an NGO by Padma Shri Dr. (Mrs.) Shyama Chona is a non-profit voluntary
organization registered in March 1984, created solely with the purpose of
helping autisim
• NavJyoti
– an NGO by Dr. KiranBedi is a
non-profit voluntary created to mobilize and harness the power of children,
youth, women and people at large to approach illiteracy, gender discrimination
and the evil of drug addiction with an ultimate aim of crime prevention and
inclusive socio-economic development.
• HelpAge
India is a leading charity platform in India working with and for
disadvantaged elderly and has become the representative voice for India’s
elderly.
• The
Ila Trust was founded byReeta Devi who began working with Mother Teresa, focused
on medical issues of the underprivileged.
• I-am-Gurgaon,
an initiative aimed at awakening a responsible, aware and vigilant populace in
order to make Gurgaon, a better place to live in.
