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As the research director and a mental health coach at Sentient Professional Wellbeing, I work with both individuals and across organisations. I specialise in, and am passionate about, supporting individuals working in the animal welfare and broader ethical sectors to overcome professional challenges. If you are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, compassion fatigue, grief and/or loss, I am here for you.

As a practitioner I use therapeutic frameworks such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Mindfulness-based approaches. Grief and loss are at the core of my practice – whether you are mourning the death of a loved one or the end of an important relationship, struggling with the loss of precious animal connections, or facing major life transitions. I also draw on over ten years of experience working in leadership roles and providing coaching and mentoring to students and working professionals and am deeply aware of the intersection of personal life challenges and workplace wellbeing.

I am dedicated to working with organisations to provide wellbeing workshops and training for those engaged in the noble causes of animal care, social justice, and environmentalism. With my background as an academic researcher at University of Technology in Sydney (UTS), I have published on psychosocial issues surrounding compassion and interspecies interactions.

My most recent research was in collaboration with an animal rights NGO, which aims at ending the dog and cat meat trade in certain Asian regions. This included researching the psychological impact on individuals involved in this trade, and highlighting how witnessing or participating in animal-directed violence greatly affects human beings too. The results from this study contributed to a collective movement that led to some significant changes at the UN level. Read more: https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Tani.Khara/publications

I hold a special affinity for serving multicultural clients and speak fluent English and Hindi, along with conversational Punjabi.