SEEK

What Lies Behind
Your Distress?

First step in finding solution to any distress is seeking help,
preferably professional help

SHARE

Place Where
You Can Be Yourself

Share your thoughts and feelings, freely, openly, confidentially
to a professional who would listen without prejudice

SMILE

In Every Problem
There Is a Master Key

Find lasting solution by getting insight into your distress,
understanding one's behaviour through a scientific and professional approach

Coaching Services

Psychological Wellbeing

Life Coaching

Feeling stuck, anxious, depressed or unmotivated, with unfulfilled wishes and desires? Life coaching helps you identify and achieve your goals and dreams.

Relationship Coaching

Gain skills to resolve and proactively avoid conflicts, and learn how to communicate to connect rather than disconnect.

Coaching for Teens & Preteens

Support for depression, anxiety, fear of exams, confusion, lack of motivation, anger and loneliness.

Coaching for Parents

Skills to build confidence in your child, and to handle phone and gaming addiction and children's anger outbursts.

Marital & Premarital Coaching

For couples to understand relationship goals and gain insights for a fulfilling and enriching relationship.

Peak Performance Coaching

Athletes, musicians and sports aspirants learn to overcome mental blocks to attain success.

Mindset Coaching for IIT-JEE & NEET Aspirants

A mental conditioning program that enables competitive-exam aspirants to overcome fear and achieve higher marks.

Mindfulness Coaching

Being in the now, the present moment, with specific breathing techniques to overcome panic and anxiety disorders.

Psychologist Shankari Mandiram
22+Years of practice
About the Psychologist

Shankari Mandiram

Psychologist · Founder, Ripples Infinite Centre

Shankari Mandiram, as a psychologist, has over 22 years of professional experience in human potential development training and counselling.

She is professionally trained in counselling skills, psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, psychodrama and psychoanalysis.

Counselling SkillsPsychotherapyCBTNLPPsychodramaPsychoanalysis
  • In 2003 Started Life Skills TrainingTraining students on a life skills development program.
  • Personality developmentPioneered Personality Development Programs as summer camps, involving experiential learning with fun and activities, boosting self-confidence and self-awareness in the young ones.
  • Parenting skillsLaunched Parenting Skills Training Programs, the need of the hour with the nuclear family model and the professional career demands many parents face.
  • Ripples Infinite CentreIn professional counselling practice, founded Ripples Infinite Centre to formally provide counselling and therapy for the emotionally distressed.
Counselling

How I can help you

At Ripples Infinite Centre, Chennai

Face-to-face counselling and therapy sessions for individuals and related individuals.

Online, anywhere in the world

Video sessions for everyone outside Chennai, wherever the time overlap with Indian time is manageable.

One-hour sessions

Each session is for an hour. Depending on the issue, there could be multiple sessions.

Do I need counselling?

Counselling could help:

  • When your capacities for responding to the demands of life are strained
  • When your desired growth seems unattainable
  • When important decisions elude resolution
  • When natural support systems are unavailable or insufficient
What should I expect from counselling / therapy?
  • Get insight into the core of the issue, its causes and its impact on life
  • Get empowered to cope with life situations
  • Reduce emotional stress
  • Engage in growth-producing activities
  • Become confident in decision making
What are the different modes of service?

At Ripples Infinite Centre, Chennai: face-to-face counselling and therapy sessions for individuals and related individuals.

Online: counselling sessions across the globe for everyone who resides outside Chennai, if the time overlap with the Indian time zone is manageable.

Especially for Global Indian Citizens who need counselling and therapy from an Indian counsellor or psychologist, for the cultural understanding and for cost-effective rates compared with global charges.

How long is each session?

Each session will be for an hour, and based on the issue there could be multiple sessions.

Qualifications

Credentials

What we treat

Therapies & Counselling

Select a therapy to learn more.

Client stories

What clients say

Over 4 visits in the last one month, I have witnessed a significant, positive change in myself. The single best part about Ms. Mandiram is that she believes in therapy, rather than counselling. Through guided questioning, she helps me arrive at the very core of the problem, and gets the solution out of me. I am a lot more independent, stronger and more self-sufficient.
VenkatakrishnanVisited for personal development and psychological problems
Ms. Mandiram is a ray of bright, bright light. I have come to see so much good in me after having a couple of sessions with her, good that existed always but I had failed to see. I feel liberated, freed of so much unnecessary clutter. She is forthright and neatly professional with lots of human touch.
Shalvi RakeshVisited for stress
I don't think I've come across any therapist like her because she is not one who gives short-term remedies. She goes to the root of the problem and changes your very thoughts, and doesn't leave you without ending on a very motivating and positive note. If you are doubtful about online sessions instead of live ones, there isn't any difference in my opinion. You are in the safest of hands!
PoonguzhaliVisited for online counselling from Singapore
She made my life wonderful. I was searching for my inner self where I was lost; she helped me find myself and gave great support in correcting myself with confidence. I gained self-confidence, self-esteem and self-love after very few sessions. I took psychology as my career too, and have now completed my MSc in Psychology.
ManjuVisited for personal development
She has helped me understand the core of my issue and guided me with solutions to overcome it. The best thing I like about her treatment is that she understands the cause of the issue and focuses on addressing it permanently. Her guidance is not only helpful in overcoming the issue, but also helps me apply it in different aspects of my life.
Pradeep ManiVisited for marital counselling and stress management
She is a very friendly and kind doctor. I felt very comfortable with her right from when I met her, and it was very easy to open up to her about my problems, my depression. She is a very good listener and very patient. I've fairly changed for the better since I started seeing her. I'm more at peace with myself and others.
Benita A. DavidVisited for counselling for depression and anxiety
I am a student of journalism in the UK, and due to homesickness, anxiety and confusion, returned home for the Christmas holidays. Dr. Mandiram calmly got to the root of my problems, and gave me practical, self-help methods. I came away from her sessions ready to go back and live with the best version of me. I would recommend her in a heartbeat.
Verified patientVisited for counselling for depression and anxiety
The best part about the doctor is that she instantly diagnoses the root cause of the problem. She gives undivided attention and her suggestions are practical as well as helpful. I am feeling very positive about my recovery. After just one session you start feeling hopeful.
Shweta TodiVisited for anger management
She is an excellent, serene personality. A friendly person with whom we felt very comfortable. After the single session with Ms Shankari we were so relieved and felt that we were at the right place. She guided and counselled my daughter so pleasantly that we are very satisfied and happy.
Jaya DeyVisited for counselling for her teenage daughter
I was struggling to find a proper counsellor for the past 6 months and visited more than 5 psychologists, but could never resolve my problems. After visiting Shankari ma'am, I felt a positive energy through me. Her simple techniques helped me and my wife get clear insight and resolve long-term problems.
Rakes SharmaVisited for marital counselling
She is very understanding and a good listener with a great perspective. Her voice is very soothing and will make you feel better. She helped me deal with complicated family issues and taught me how to be peaceful without getting influenced by external factors. I am very happy I met her.
Shruthi V.Visited for family problems
Mrs. Mandiram has a great way of making you open up about yourself and guides you to reveal what you want. She makes the process of self-understanding and realisation simple and gives you courage to do what is good for you.
SaranyaVisited for personal development
It was such a great relief to my family after attending her counselling session. I really want to thank her for her helpful guidance.
Verified patientVisited for family counselling

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About Ripples Infinite

The Centre for Human Potential Development

Ripples was established to empower individuals with emotional and psychological well-being, thus achieving a quality life.

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Book an Appointment

For booking appointments, please message on WhatsApp.

Appointments

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+91 99401 64661

Hours

  • Monday to Saturday
  • Morning11:00 am – 1:00 pm IST
  • Evening5:00 pm – 8:00 pm IST

Tele-counselling: online video sessions are available. Please contact us for an appointment.

Address

Ripples Infinite Centre
Old Mahabalipuram Road,
Perungudi, Chennai,
Tamil Nadu, India