About Dr. Divya Kannan, Ph. D, Psychologist
Dr. Divya Kannan completed her doctoral training in Clinical Psychology from the University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA, and specialized in the study and treatment of traumatic stress. She has published in the areas of Psychotherapy Outcome Research, Therapist Development, and Trauma, and served as Assistant Director of Quality and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She moved back to her hometown in 2017 to Bangalore, India, after 10+ years of experience in the field, and currently works as Clinical Director for Therapy, with health and fitness giant cure.fit.
Training and Background
Dr. Divya Kannan, Ph.D., completed her doctoral training at the University of Memphis, Tennessee and postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt University Psychological & Counseling Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Dr. Kannan has supervised doctoral trainees in Psychology and Psychiatry, established her clinical practice working with adolescents and adults at the Vanderbilt Psychological & Counseling Center as the Lead Psychologist for the Acute Care Team, and served as Clinical Faculty at the Vanderbilt Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department.
Dr. Kannan writes in the area of psychotherapy and counselling research and her work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, The Humanistic Psychologist, The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Psychotherapy Research, and more.
Since moving back to Bangalore in 2017, she has advised and consulted with corporates and hospitals on therapy and mental health and currently works as Director for Therapy at cure.fit. Dr. Kannan also serves as a mentor to One More Light and advisor to Curley Street’s Bystander Intervention campaign in India.
Dr. Kannan’s private practice focuses primarily on adults with a range of concerns from anxiety, OCD, work stress, emotion focused couples therapy and more. For appointments, visit the contact page.
Approach to Therapy
Dr. Kannan utilizes an integrative, emotion focused, and evidence-based approach in therapy.
She believes that “The most significant outcome of taking care of our mental health over time, is growth. Growth comes from realizing the need to resolve that feeling of tension or being stuck when we are faced with difficult or painful experiences in our lives, that can cause anxiety, stress, grief, a feeling of being out of balance, and more.
Therapy helps us journey through these difficult moments through self-awareness and understanding, where we can experience a shift in how we relate to ourselves, our thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and our relationships. Therapy can provide the scaffolding needed to get moving on a path of self-determination, balance, and wellness.”
