About Us
Holistic Help In An Ideal Environment
Our History
Premanjali is the offspring of two important Synods held in Mumbai and Vasai. The outcome of these synods was: Families are in urgent need of help. However, the roadmap for implementation was not clear. Premanjali was conceived and set up as a long and short term response to this felt need.
Premanjali Counselling Services Institute was set up to train professional counsellors, using the latest methods available in the USA. Its primary focus was to offer supervised training for psychologists with the latest skills and techniques available to deal with a variety of psychological issues with minimum time. Supervised training was the need of the hour for psychologists in India. Many had professional degrees but lacked supervised training in implementation of their learning. A quick solution was to do a short course in a particular form of therapy and use it as a solution for all problems. We also offered counselling and therapy for diverse client population.
It was inaugurated by Archbishop of Vasai Diocese in Sept. 2011 and became operative in June 2012 with Dr. Bernadette D’Souza, DHM and Dr. Anthony J. D’Souza, SJ as its founding director. Read More
Director speaks
Dr. Anthony J. D’Souza
Director, Premanjali Counselling Services
Premanjali, as the name suggests, is a haven where love is offered to all who seek peace, meaning and healing. It is a place where individuals discover the joy of their being and inner resources to build self-confidence to face challenges of life in new and creative ways.
Premanjali is where relationships are healed and new, creative ways offered to strengthen them.
Premanjali is where parents learn to be better parents by providing a supportive, growth-enhancing and love-filled environment for their children to grow and discover their full potential to face challenges in the world with courage and confidence.
It is a place where teenagers and parents are able to discover their relationship in a new way with better understanding of each other and teenagers are empowered to grow into adults of tomorrow with love and care.
It is a haven where a family discovers the joy of being together and relishes the gift of each other to enrich oneself in ways that are mutually nourishing in an atmosphere of love and freedom.
Our Vision
To take Counselling to places where it does not exist and to cater to a wide variety of problems of any age.
Our Mission
To offer quality counselling and programmes to individuals, families, couples, children and teenagers to promote personal and group well-being at all levels.
The following facilities have been made available for the benefit of those visiting Premanjali:
Meditation pond
Library room
Gardens
Lecture room
Board and lodge
Well-furnished conference rooms
Premanjali is a two-storied structure with reception room, counselling rooms with one-way-mirror facilities, dining hall adjoining the kitchen. The first floor consists of staff quarters, two lecture halls and a library cum hall. The second floor has rooms for participants along with a prayer room. The terrace is a nursery with a variety of flowers along with solar facilities for water heating and lighting.
The whole campus is covered with mango, coconut and chickoo trees, some over hundred years old. The facility is wrapped up by nature with a meditation pond and a well that provide us with ample water throughout the year.
Our Team
Dr. Anthony J. D’Souza
Director , Premanjali Counselling Services
Received Doctoral class award for excellence in the practice of Clinical Psychology and awarded Outstanding Alumni of the Year by Wright State University, School of Professional Psychology in 2004. He was invited by the University to give the keynote address to the doctoral students at their convocation in the States. He was also invited to conduct programmes for the Staff and doctoral students of the same University. He has training in the States in NLP, Rubenfeld Synergy – Body-Mind, Ericksonian Hypnosis, Group Therapy with Bill Schultz and practiced Family Therapy under the supervision of Drs. Scott Frazer and Mary Talen and worked as a consultant in Child Rehab. Centre. He has counselling and therapy experience of over 35 years and has worked with teenagers, children, couples and families as well as conducted group therapy for diverse populations with a variety of problems. He is a former Staff member of Sadhana Institute, Lonavala.
Nithya Joseph
Program Coordinator & Counsellor
Passionately driven to empower people, she challenges herself to bring about individual personal change, for corporate and social change. She has pursued her Masters of Social Work (Counselling), M.A.in Education, M.Com., B.Ed. and ensured a Professional Diploma in Software Engineering. Additionally she got trained at Xavier’s Institute of Advanced Counselling. Her key competencies include Organisational Development, Research and Analysis ,Strategic Planning, Capacity Building and Facilitation, Collaboration and Relationship Building, Program Management and Mentoring.
She has worked with Corporates , schools , government setups and NGO’s for over than 20 years in the area of life skill training , counselling and conducted workshops & trainings for various age groups.
Tanya Serrao
Counsellor
Tanya Serrao graduated in Lifespan Counselling Psychology from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and received additional training at Xavier’s Institute of Advanced Counselling. She has experience as a school counsellor, offering individual and group sessions, and conducting Life Skills workshops. Tanya has worked in orphanages, designing trauma-informed programs, and has helped clients across various age groups with issues like relationship challenges, focus and motivation, career clarity, stress, anxiety, and depression. Her therapy approach is non-judgmental, empathetic, and reflective, encouraging clients to access their most resourceful selves. Drawing from neuroscience, existentialism, and humanistic perspectives, she uses a trauma-informed, holistic approach, inspired by thinkers like Richard Schwartz, Peter Levine, and Carl Jung. She stays current with research to provide the best care to her clients.
Premanjali’s social outreach activities
MUKTA JEEVAN
SOCIETY OF THE HELPERS OF MOTHER MARY
Mukta Jeevan Hospital and Rehabilitation centre is situated in Vehloli Village, in the taluka of Shahapur, Thane district about 90 Km from Mumbai. Mukta Jeevan was established in 1987 to offer a second chance to live for those who suffered from Hansen’s disease or commonly known as Leprosy.
It started as a Leprosy Care & Rehabilitation center and now have extended to HIV AIDS care center & Old age home for the bedridden people. It is a home for children with HIV AIDS by birth, who were found from garbage or outside religious places or handed over by Abortion centers.
Over the years, the hospital effectively and efficiently treated hundreds of poor leprosy patients and reached out to the villages through mobile clinics and awareness programs to eradicate leprosy. Leprosy detection programme is extended to 12 villages and 17 schools. The valiant efforts of the society to eradicate leprosy have bore fruit as the number of new cases reduced substantially. Thanks to a donor, Mukta Jeevan has a well equipped hospital, a clinical laboratory, Operation theatre, X-ray facilities, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy and Counseling centre exclusively for the people suffering from Hansen’s disease. Once they are cured they are trained in income generation programme like candle making, needlework, poultry and gardening besides adult literacy programmes and tailoring classes and rehabilitated effectively.
We at Premanjali wish to support the selfless efforts of this group. The various household related and gift items made by these inmates are displayed at our office. You can join our effort to help this group by contacting us at 70288 87307
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