Jagruti Wandrekar is visiting faculty for the post graduate Counselling Psychology programme at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India, teaching courses on trauma-focussed and queer affirmative mental health care. Wandrekar has 14 years of experience working at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and mental health across multiple settings such as clinics, non-profit organisations working in the field of community mental health, crisis counselling centres, rehabilitation centres, academia and research, and private practice. Her expertise in feminist counselling is derived from her work with marginalized women in a crisis counselling centre for survivors of gender-based violence in Mumbai in urban informal settlements, running a therapy group for LGBTQIA+ persons called SAAHAS, and working with women and gender diverse persons across varied socio-economic strata.