Welcome to Chennai Counselors’ Foundation Editorial Team. We are a dynamic team eager to welcome creative contributions from members of CCF.

Mission/Objective

We intend to create a knowledge repository online that would be a space for creative expression of the members of CCF, which can initiate community engagement and learning. Additionally, it can also increase accessibility to the right mental health support for the public through our platform.

Ms. Sneha Hindocha - Editor-in-Chief

Ms. Sneha Hindocha, an experienced and compassionate Counselling Psychologist with over 14 years of experience. Dedicated to providing clients with advanced and effective treatment programs, working with individuals and couples – handling cases like depression, anxiety, BPD, OCD, relationship issues, anger management, anxiety, stress management, exam fear, addiction issues, parent-child issues etc. She has been a visiting consultant at Apollo Spectra alongside having her private practice at her clinic for about 3-4 years. Currently available at her Nungambakkam clinic and online too.

Sneha has been on Tamil News channel – News7 as a guest specialist – talk on alcoholism. Conducted multiple awareness programs at various corporates like, RR Donnelley, PWC, Ideas2IT, also for a group of 60 Seafarers with a Singapore based company.

Started her psychology background in 11 th grade, a BSc in Psychology from Ethiraj, MSc Applied Child Psychology from Kingston University, UK, a second masters (Distance) MSc Counselling Psychology from Madras University. Counselling background and career started back in 2007, with Dr. Brinda Jayaraman, with a course in Practical training in counselling and documentation and going on to getting supervised training also with her, to then becoming a JPC at CCF.

Reading, cooking, writing poems & novels, travelling and photography – interests

Sneha is a Registered Professional Counsellor (RPC) with Chennai Counselors Foundation and is currently their Editor-in-Chief.

For futher details, Email us at  ccfeditorialcommittee@gmail.com.

Aarthi Prabhakaran, Correspondence Liaison (Articulate Elucidator)

Aarthi Prabhakaran is a Parenting & Life Skills Practitioner, trained in Counselling practices & EYFS programmes. For more than a decade, she has worked extensively with parents, immigrant families, & asylum seekers in the USA, France, & the UK. As a consultant, she supports parents to develop proactive parenting practices that enable holistic child development, specifically nurturing self-regulatory behaviours in them early on. She also enjoys working with teens and young adults as a facilitator of her proprietary Life skills programme. A learner for life & as an articulate communicator, she blogs on Blogger, Momspresso, ParentCircle, and BlogChatter.

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Lakshmi C, Essayist (Word-spinning Spider)

Lakshmi is a practicing Mental Health counselor. She has worked with individuals, children, adolescents, and families during her tenure as an Institutional and HIV/AIDS Counselor. She has a strong desire to help and assist people with challenges of daily living and to make a difference in their lives. She has recently developed an interest in writing and has begun to pen down her thoughts. She believes that passion is about focusing on an activity at hand and allowing oneself to be immersed in it.

You can write to us at ccfeditorialcommittee@gmail.com.

If you wish to contribute articles for XpressionZ, please do go through the guidelines for submission below.

Guidelines for submission

The primary focus of our page will be themed on the overall wellbeing of our community and society at large. Here are the basic guidelines for articles/poetry submission:

  • We recommend that it is entirely your original creation. If you are using images or quoting from elsewhere, we urge that you reference the source appropriately as per the article referencing guideline.
  • If you are parallel-publishing or sharing an already published work of yours, kindly mention the same for us to indicate it if and when we publish on our website to ensure that we stay within the Creative Commons Copyright Law.
  • Write in simple, short sentences and straight forward English. As our articles will also be read by people who are not mental health professionals, keeping the technical jargons to a minimum would be welcome.
  • Use appropriate paragraph breaks, supporting images/charts/diagrams.
  • Please use a spell checker before you submit.
  • Keep the article length between 500 - 1000 words.
  • Do not indent in the beginning of the paragraphs, keeping in line with the new age text formatting.
  • Mention references & citations appropriately within parentheses [ ]. Refer for citation rules online if in doubt.
  • Use standard fonts in your document. Some of the standard fonts that remain the same across various digital platforms are Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana, Comic Sans MS, and Georgia.
  • If you wish to use images for your article but do not have your own to use, here are a few places from where you can find appropriate license-free images for your article/poem, duly crediting the same in your content: Unsplash , Pexels, and Pixaboy.

If you are submitting a photograph or digital art, that you created, please follow the guidelines below:

  • For photographs, entries to be sent in .png or .jpeg/.jpg format. Send the file in compressed format keeping the file size low.
  • As the files are being used only in the web page, high resolution/HD is not recommended.
  • Do not add personal watermarks in the files. When we publish, we will credit it to you, the creator, appropriately.

As a community of mindful mental health practitioners and enthusiasts, we know the importance of practicing mindfulness in our lives and actions. Extending this to your submissions, please ensure that you avoid the following:

  • Anything absolutist. Be mindful of the tone you set in your submissions by checking for the same, avoiding labelling, prescriptive solutioning and such messaging.
  • Clickbait: As a practice, we all know the ill-effects of this kind of headline, or article/video summary. Let us lead by example and not use such methods for attracting eyes to the article/creative.
  • Promotion: Please try and avoid promoting your personal services or products through your submissions. The focus is on expression of ideas, feelings, and facts relating to mental and holistic wellbeing.

You can mail your contribution(s) to us at ccfeditorialcommittee@gmail.com. If and when your submission is cleared for publishing, you will be required to sign (digitally or manually) an author consent and disclaimer form and revert to us, for us to proceed with the publishing on our website and other digital platforms.