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. Anupama Anand - Editor:

Anupama is a Counseling Psychologist, growth enhancement mentor and a wellness facilitator. She started her career 13 years back in a school in Bangalore. Working closely with the students, parents, teachers, and management provided her the necessary skill sets to improve the parent-child-teacher relationship. Understanding the expectations of the parent and child she facilitates enhancement workshops to improve the intrapersonal communication in a family system. A plethora of courses and opportunities led Anupama to become a certified Career Counselor, Resource person for CBSE schools and a Champion Wellness Facilitator for corporates.

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

Mr. Kannan Parthasarathy - Sub-editor

Kannan Parthasarathy has 6 years of experience as a counselling Psychologist and corporate trainer. He provides counselling for Depression, Anxiety, Stress Management, Anger Management, Handling Trauma, Grief, Phobias and addictions, Work place Harassment and other issues, Relationship issues, Marital Counseling, Parenting issues, Career Guidance etc.

He uses an integrated approach – from various therapies like Adlerian, Person Centred Approach, Transactional Analysis, REBT, CBT and brief therapies like NLP, Solution Focussed Therapy and Metaphors of Movement depending on the type of the issue, personality of the individual and the time constraints.

He is a ISMA certified Stress Management Professional and a Mindfulness Coach. He is a Master Certified NLP practitioner and he also holds a diploma in Hypnotherapy.

He corporate counselling experience includes giant MNCs like TCS and several other organizations, where he had been taking various workshops pertaining to corporate skills, life skills, stress management, emotional intelligence etc.

He also conducts workshops on soft skills, career guidance and counselling, Awareness of physical, biological and psychological changes in adolescence, basics of cybersafety and several other topics to various government and private schools, colleges and NGOs.

He was heading the Career & Guidance Wing for Chennai Counselors’ Foundation (CCF), conducted certification workshops for colleges Career Guidance for various schools, colleges and NGOs like Agaram Foundation and Naandi Foundation. He is currently heading the editorial committee for CCF.

He has completed Masters in Psychology(2016), MBA in Investments(2007) and MCA(1990).

He was a VP in Capgemini where he worked for 18 years. Prior to Capgemini, for 10 years, he has been part of various MNCs.

His hobbies include Organic Farming, Jogging/Walking, Quest for Learning varied subjects, Befriending animals, Watching Movies, Listening to Songs and exploring new hobbies.

For further details contact

Mr. Kannan Parthasarathy , Sub-editor, Email : gokannanpar@gmail.com , Mobile : +91 99401 08226.

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.