Mrs. Shraddha Prasad Kale is a psychologist, art therapist, researcher, and senior mentor whose work focuses on integrating expressive practices, psychological insight, and culturally grounded frameworks to support emotional wellbeing, self-awareness, and psychosocial resilience. Her professional approach is rooted in ethical practice, reflective inquiry, and the responsible application of creative processes within educational, community, and professional settings.

She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology and has undergone advanced professional training in Art Therapy and expressive modalities, with specialised expertise in Mandala-based work, Graphotherapy, visual-symbolic interventions, and sketch-based reflective practices. Her work reflects a deep engagement with symbolic cognition, inner process facilitation, and compassion-based approaches for emotional regulation and personal development.

Mrs. Kale is a VIDWAN–INFLIBNET listed researcher and an ORCID-registered author, with scholarly contributions in peer-disseminated book chapters and national and international conference proceedings. Her research interests explore the interface of expressive therapies, symbolic patterns, compassion-based practices, and practice-led frameworks that are culturally relevant and ethically sound.

As a senior practitioner and mentor, she has played a key role in training, supervising, and guiding practitioners and facilitators in expressive and art-based practices. Her mentorship has contributed to the development of structured learning programmes, practitioner readiness models, and capacity-building initiatives within the organisation.

As the Founder–Director of SFS Foundation, Mrs. Shraddha Prasad Kale provides strategic leadership across research direction, curriculum development, ethical frameworks, and programme design. Through her work, she is committed to building accessible, research-informed, and culturally integrated models of expressive practice that can be meaningfully applied in schools, communities, and professional environments across India.

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