NANDU
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FOUNDER &
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Leadership Coach
Psychotherapist
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Nandu is a Leadership Coach, & Psychotherapist. He has been conducting workshops/bespoke programs since 2012 for organisations and rendering coaching services to corporate executives and individuals. As a psychotherapist Nandu specialises in Anxiety, Depression, Bereavement & Trauma and has experience in NHS, UK (complex client team), as well as NHS IAPT (Talking Therapies) & MIND (centres across London)
Headstride clientele mélange encompass IT, Telecom, Broadcast Media, Academic Institutions, Advertising agencies, Financial services firms, Technology Consulting, Manufacturing and Mental health fraternity.
THE PROGRAMS THAT HE CONDUCTS UNDER HEADSTRIDE GAMUT ENVELOPS
DISTINCT FRAMEWORKS AND SERVICEABLE ANALOGIES.
This is weaved with a psychological contract that he has with his audience, which is to make respective program participant attain:
TRANSFORMATIVE SHIFT
Grasp the mind elements
REFLECTIVE AIM
Breach the day to day spontaneous
BREAK BOUNDARIES
Crossover & explore boundaries
SENSE OF DISPATCH
Instil a sense of purpose & immediacy
Interpret Apperceptive elements of Leadership & Sales
GRASPING APPERCEPTION
MENTAL HEALTH
Understand Anxiety, Depression, Bereavement & Trauma
credentials
QUALIFICATIONS
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PG Diploma in Enhanced CBT - Psychosis & Bipolar: Oxford University, Oxford.
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PG Cert in Enhanced CBT - Psychological Trauma & Personality Development: Oxford University, Oxford.
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PG Diploma in High Intensity CBT: Royal Holloway University of London.
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Counselling for Depression (CfD): BACP PCE-CfD Accredited. Metanoia Institute, London. (NICE recommended psychological therapy for Depression).
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1-yr. Trust Certificate in Trauma studies: Tavistock & Portman NHS Trust, London
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Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy (ADEP): Regents University, London.
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Masters in Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology (MA): Regents University, London.
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1- year Foundation Program: Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology: Regents University, London.
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Diploma in Corporate & Executive Coaching: The Coaching Academy, London
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Diploma in Personal Performance Coaching: The Coaching Academy, London.
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Telecoms Mini MBA: Telecoms Academy, London. (University of Derby accredited).
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MBA (Marketing): Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, India.
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Distributed Systems & Mobile Computing: IIT Powai, Mumbai, India.
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Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical): Shivaji University, India
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CERTIFICATIONS
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VIP Program: CBT for HAVoC with Anxiety, Depression & Post-Traumatic stress. UCL College, London.
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Licensed Practitioner of NLP: Richard Bandler’s NLP Life, London.
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Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT): Oxford Mindfulness Centre, Oxford.
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CBT- Managing Anxiety & Depression: Royal College of Psychiatrists, London.​
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Voice in Performance: Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, London.
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DISC certified: People Keys, USA.
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Voice of Influence: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.
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British English Certificate (BEC Higher): University of Cambridge.
differentiators
Nandu combined his hard skills (Sales & Leadership) and soft skills (Coaching, Psychotherapy, Communication) and created Headstride Ltd with a mission to facilitate people understand their mind in more depth. These are the skills and experience that he brings into any engagement and is elaborated below.
psychotherapy & coaching consonance
Coaching augments normal healthy people in achieving their goals be it career, health, work-life balance, adventure, philanthropy and so forth. Psychotherapy on the other hand is more demanding as it deals with people with psychological disorders, residue of suppressed emotions and anxieties etc. Whilst coaching is forward oriented, and helps clients realise their full potential, psychotherapy delves deeper into the mind to understand the constraints imposed as some clients are stuck in the past with unresolved issues.
With both coaching & psychotherapy skills, Nandu has a holistic understanding of the human mind as against seeing it in its constituent parts which facilitates him in pursuing the right intervention strategies. He blends in the ‘reflection & feeling oriented’ exploration skills from psychotherapy into his coaching style and is able to invoke the necessary shifts in his client. Coaching draws considerable inspiration from psychotherapy hence there is congruence between both approaches.
AS A PSYCHOTHERAPIST
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Nandu is a UKCP accredited, MBACP registered Integrative Psychotherapist. He is also a BABCP accredited High Intensity CBT therapist and BACP PCE-CfD (Counselling for Depression) accredited therapist.
He has explicit affinity towards existential philosophies particularly hermeneutic phenomenology and its applicability in the counselling room. He has almost a decade of psychotherapy experience at IAPT & IAPT compliant agencies (MIND) as well as NHS IPTT as CAT therapist (secondary services complex care at SLAM, London). Nandu also has experience as Couples Therapist for depressed clients at IAPT SLAM (London). Nandu is the author of the programs within Headstride repertoire, a speaker and a blogger.
HEADSTRIDE COACHING USES CONSTRUCTIVE LANGUAGE, TARGETED RESTATEMENTS AND INCISIVE QUESTIONING TO
UNCAP THESE BELIEFS & CONFLICTS INORDER TO CREATE
A PATHWAY FOR DECISION AND ACTION.
A TRIFLE CONSOLES US, FOR A TRIFLE DISTRESSES US.
- Blaise Pascal