Career Consultant and Counseling Psychologist. Mumbai, INDIA

She has completed her bachelor’s in arts (Psychology) from Mithibai College in May 1999 and master’s in psychology from Mumbai University in May 2001. Worked at SevaDhan-Drug De-Addiction Centre (2 yrs) and Drishti – Developmental Learning Centre (10 yrs) in Mumbai. Practising as a consulting psychologist since 7+ years. Currently, a consulting psychologist at Sion Hospital in Learning Disability Department.

She has wide range of experience in the areas of psychological assessment in IQ, learning disabilities, personality and career testing, counselling program for all age group, training program for teachers, students and parents and corporate training and employee assistance program. Conducted various programmes in many cities across India and exposed to different work cultures.

She has rendered her services to different sectors like schools (across all boards in Mumbai), hospital, child guidance centres (Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Pune), IT sectors and shipping company, etc.

Achievement: Ms. Poonam Agarwal, have been empanelled as a member to be co-opted on Personal Interview Selection Board as a Psychologist in an advisory capacity during the selection process in Mazagon Dock Limited (leading Shipping Company), Mumbai.

Brief profile:

Ms. Navleen is an experienced Special Educator with over 12 years of experience in this field. Her area of expertise is to understand, provide instruction by adapting and developing materials to match the learning styles, strengths, and special needs of each of her child client.

She is involved in various teachers training, parenting and child centered programs. She thrives to spread awareness and provide alternative educational opportunities to children with different needs. This includes research and practice to modify the curriculum for students with disabilities in order to meet the academic needs of a wide
range of learners.

She extensively work as a special educator whose work is related to curriculum development, preparing and executing individualized education plan (IEP) based on assessment report and its resource material and progress report. She is also equipped in designing the module for Special Education @ Home and Online Teacher Training Program.

She has experience working with mainstream, special schools and developmental centers. She believes in spreading awareness and providing early intervention support for these difficulties / disabilities. She has and is working with children with special needs such as Down syndrome, ASD, ADHD, and Learning disabilities.

She is a holder of Master of Science in Psychology with Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) in special education and Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in developmental counselling

She has the expertise of designing and developing concepts for the commissioning of Project Management Units (PMUs) also known as Technical Support Groups (TSGs).  In addition, worked  as Strand Lead for Education Partnership and Leadership strand of UK-India Education and Research Initiative and also worked as Assistant  Professor  with  Jamia  Hamdard Residential  Coaching  Academy where my work involved guiding students for  Government  services  and teaching ‘Occupational Health’ to MBA students. In the Social Sector, her association has been with diverse voluntarily organisations such as Action for Ability, Development and Inclusion (AADI), ActionAid, Room to Read, AWSAR-INDIA and B-ABLE wherein she designed and developed training modules and worked in community engagement project.