Our Team
Therapists and Facilitators offering services at our Center
Anubha Doshi
Founder-Director - Artsphere & Soulsphere, Psychologist, Mindfulness Based Psychotherapist, Expressive Arts Therapist, Classical Dancer & Author
Award winning entrepreneur, psychologist, teacher and author, Anubha is the founder-director of Artsphere and Soulsphere, a unique arts and healing centre in Pune, where performing arts and therapy co-exist under the same roof. She regularly facilitates workshops in mindfulness, dance therapy, positive psychology, and parenting for corporates, educational institutions, and NGOs.
Her practice is unique as she explores the connection between Expressive Arts and Dance Movement Therapy (DMT), Mindfulness and Buddhist Philosophy, born out of her studies in Arts based Therapies and ‘Mahayana Buddhist Psychology & Ethics’ by WCCL, at the Pune University. This has become a lifelong journey for her, after studying ‘Mindfulness & Presence Oriented Psychotherapy’ under Just Being and is in the process of completing Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s ‘Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program’ (USA). She is also pursuing the Ph.D. doctoral programme in Expressive Arts Therapy from the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and has recently completed the ‘Bodynamics Foundation Training’ with The Healing Circle under Bodynamic International.
Her parenting book, ‘The M – Factor’, a collection of unique personal essays written by mothers in a memoir format, is due for release in 2025, and is being published by the prestigious Penguin Random House. She has also served as a Parenting Expert on the Panel for the Times Keep Learning Initiative powered by BYJU'S. She was recently awarded the ‘She The Shakti’ honour by Pune TV’s Shweta Saxena and support partner FICCI Flo, and The Ranka Jewellers ‘Women of Substance’ award for her exemplary work in the field.
She has been the editor of CMTAI (Creative Movement Therapy Association of India) & Artsphere’s online Indian Magazine of Dance/Movement therapy (DMT). She is a faculty on the DMT certificate and diploma courses run by CMTAI and St. Mira’s College for Girls, Pune. She is also on the Board of Studies of the Psychology Department at the St. Mira’s College for Girls, Pune.
She is a double postgraduate and a scholarship holder in Clinical Psychology from Fergusson College, Pune University. She also has a master’s degree in Communication Management from the Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication (SIMC). Anubha completed her graduation in English Literature from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi. She is an associate member of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) and was also a member of the CID (International Dance Council) France. She is also presenting her unique work at National and International conferences like the ADTA, International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA), CMTAI conferences. Her research papers, co-authored with her colleagues, “Chakra Awareness through Dance Movement Therapy’ and ‘Buddhist Psychology Intersects with Dance Movement Therapy’, were published by the prestigious Creative Arts in Education and Therapy (CEAT) journal.
Mentors and Consultants
Artsphere is associated with therapists, mentors and trainers all across India. Contact us to find a therapist in your city.
Tripura
Kashyap
Tripura Kashyap pioneered Creative Movement Therapy in India in 1990. She studied Dance Therapy at Hancock Center for dance/movement therapy (Wisconsin, USA) and subsequently obtained her MA in Psychology. She worked intensively for several years using dance therapy with children and adults with therapeutic needs. She trained in classical dance at Kalakshetra (Chennai) and jazz, ballet, modern dance, choreography and dance theatre in the U.S. Tripura has received fellowships from Ashoka Foundation and Indian Ministry of Culture for her innovative work in dance therapy and contemporary dance. She authored the book My Body, My Wisdom published by Penguin. Tripura was also Projects Coordinator for Bhoomika Dance Company (Delhi) and Creative Consultant for the ‘Dance- in-Education’ program at Attakkalari Center (Bangalore). She conceptualized CMTAI’s movement therapy courses in Delhi and Bangalore is on the teaching faculty of other dance & expressive art therapy courses in Pune and Bangalore.
Creative Movement Therapist, Co-founder Creative Movement Therapy Association of India
Dr. Margaret Lobo
Dr Margaret Lobo has worked tirelessly in the field of music therapy for over 30 years to help some of the most vulnerable people in society in the UK and India. Together with a small team of highly skilled and dedicated therapists in London, she built up the work of the Otakar Kraus Music Trust (www.okmtrust.co.uk) from modest beginnings to an organisation operating in 17 venues providing over 3,000 music therapy sessions annually for over 250 people.
INDIA - In 2005, Margaret was invited to extend her work to India, where she established The Music Therapy Trust as a registered charity, starting the first Post Graduate Diploma in music therapy training Indian musicians to become qualified music therapists.
Margaret is one of the named mentors for the ‘ASHA Foundation, “Inspirational Women from Around the World” and she was awarded a Fellowship from the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA) and in 2010 received an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University for her major contribution to the community in the UK, India and Nepal in the field of Health and Social Sciences.
Music Therapist, FRSA U.K.
Susan Bullough-Khare
Susan Bullough-Khare received her education training in England and she has done several courses with the British Association of Art Therapists, Inner Sound Therapy, Naked Voice, British School of Anger Management, Gestalt, EFT, Somatic Healing and life. Her current work includes training workshops with SMART in Bangalore and Don Bosco in Mumbai.
Artist and Visual Art Therapist
