Ms. Tvarita Iyer Vemuri, Experienced Clinical Psychologist in Bangalore
Tvarita Iyer Vemuri is a clinical psychologist with a postgraduate degree in Clinical Psychology and a focus on children, adolescents and families. Her training and practice span hospitals, NGOs, clinics, institutional child care and online therapy platforms, giving her a broad view of mental health needs across settings.
Her speciality is trauma-informed, attachment-focused work with infants and children, including those affected by abuse, neglect, abandonment, disability and placement instability. She provides individual, group and play-based interventions, and conducts developmental, behavioural and psychosocial assessments. She also offers adoption counselling and family guidance, and prepares children for adoption and family reintegration. Her work with infants includes neonatal intensive care support such as stress observation, relational and attachment care, and developmental tracking.
Alongside child-focused care, she works with adults, couples and families on anxiety, depression, trauma and adjustment difficulties, as well as neurodevelopmental concerns such as autism, ADHD and specific learning disorders. She is also a trainer and supervisor. She coaches caregivers and childcare staff in developmentally responsive care and mentors psychology interns.
Tvarita is a writer and public voice on child mental health. She has published peer-reviewed research and written widely on psychology, and she appears as a guest expert on podcasts about screen time, social media, AI and children’s developing brains. Her practice is evidence-based, attachment-informed and culturally responsive.
Areas of Expertise:
- Trauma-informed child and adolescent psychology
- Attachment and early relational difficulties in infants and young children
- Play therapy and child-centred interventions
- Infant and early childhood mental health, including perinatal and NICU-based support
- Adoption counselling, adoption preparation and family reintegration
- Psychological, developmental, behavioural and neuropsychological assessment
- Support for children with disabilities and high support needs
- Autism, ADHD and specific learning disorders
- Child and family counselling, including structural family therapy
- Individual, couple and group therapy
- Counselling for survivors of abuse, trafficking and child marriage
- Evidence-based therapies: CBT, DBT, ACT, mindfulness-based interventions and Gottman’s approach
- Crisis intervention
- Caregiver psychoeducation and staff training on trauma-informed care
- Supervision and mentoring of psychology interns
- Parent guidance on screen time, digital wellness and behavioural challenges
- Online counselling and mental health writing
