About Global Mosaïque Care
Global Mosaïque Care aims to address the psychological and psychosocial challenges of migration, whether voluntary or involuntary. When human beings migrate from their homes to new social and cultural settings, myriad changes take place. Some of these changes can lead to beneficial growth and development by expanding one's perspectives and understandings of the world - and one's place within it - as well as by building new connections and relationships.
These changes may also be accompanied by significant struggle, suffering and uncertainty. No matter the reasons for moving to a new environment, separation from loved ones and cultural belonging to one's place of origin leads to multiple losses and necessary adaptations. This experience can include feelings of deep sadness and longing for home; a sense of instability and insecurity in the new social and cultural context; feelings of loneliness and social isolation; and unsettling changes to one's sense of identity, purpose and belonging in the world.
Global Mosaïque Care provides a supportive and inquisitive environment in which to explore experiences of migration and sociocultural displacement, along with significant aspects of life such as family, close relationships, professional and educational paths, internal life and emotions, and identity. Supportive services are offered remotely through telehealth for people residing throughout California.
These changes may also be accompanied by significant struggle, suffering and uncertainty. No matter the reasons for moving to a new environment, separation from loved ones and cultural belonging to one's place of origin leads to multiple losses and necessary adaptations. This experience can include feelings of deep sadness and longing for home; a sense of instability and insecurity in the new social and cultural context; feelings of loneliness and social isolation; and unsettling changes to one's sense of identity, purpose and belonging in the world.
Global Mosaïque Care provides a supportive and inquisitive environment in which to explore experiences of migration and sociocultural displacement, along with significant aspects of life such as family, close relationships, professional and educational paths, internal life and emotions, and identity. Supportive services are offered remotely through telehealth for people residing throughout California.
About me
As a voluntary immigrant to the United States, and a first generation francophone Swiss with parents who immigrated from different countries, I grew up in an international multicultural family with a history of migration across generations. One parent left their home country seeking educational opportunities, as I did when I came to the United States as an international student in my twenties. The other was obliged to flee due to political persecution. These cross-continental journeys have influenced me, and led to deep compassion for the experience of displacement from home, no matter the circumstance. I identify as a multiethnic and multicultural white European immigrant, who has benefitted from class, racial, educational and other social advantages, about which I strive to be thoughtful.
My clinical career began as a social worker after receiving a Master of Science in Clinical Social Work from Columbia University in New York City. I then continued my clinical education and obtained a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D) from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, where I have lived since 2001. I obtained a Certificate in Global Mental Health from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, and am a licensed psychologist in the State of California (PSY24660). I previously completed a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University.
As a psychologist and clinical social worker, my professional life has been dedicated to supporting others through their journeys of migration, and adjustment to new lives in foreign contexts. For the past 30 years, I have provided psychological and psychosocial support for people displaced by interpersonal violence, persecution and human rights abuses in domestic and international contexts. In the United States, I have worked with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the San Francisco Bay Area at Survivors International and the International Rescue Committee; and in New York City at the Roberto Clemente Family Guidance Center. Internationally, I spent several years in West, Central and Southern Africa: working in a rural Lake Volta area of Ghana through Crossroads Africa; at the Trauma Centre Cameroun in Yaoundé, Cameroon through the Center for Victims of Torture, and at the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture in Cape Town, South Africa. I have also lived, studied and worked in Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Mexico and Slovenia.
In 2015 I co-founded Partnerships for Trauma Recovery, a non-profit community mental health organization in Berkeley, providing psychosocial support for forcibly displaced people and communities in Northern California, as well as training for psychology doctoral students through the Global Healing & Human Rights Clinical Training Program. At PTR I was Clinical & Training Director until starting Global Mosaïque Care in 2023. Most recently, I have been a consulting psychologist with the Center for Victims of Torture, the Headington Institute and Survivors of Torture, International. Since 2018, I have also been involved in the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California's Community Psychoanalysis Track & Consortium as a community mental health consultant and steering committee member. Through these deeply meaningful professional experiences, along with ongoing clinical training in global mental health and trauma recovery care, I have developed expertise in supporting people through healing from severe trauma and loss. My commitment to global human rights and international social justice persists.
My clinical orientation is integrative, with close attention to trauma, culture and context, and a focus on depth and meaning. My approach is based in contemporary relational psychodynamic theory, and influenced by humanistic and liberation psychology, attachment theory, and a multi-perspective international lens. I provide support for adults and adolescents, and work with individuals, couples and families. I am fluent in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and services are available in these languages.
My clinical career began as a social worker after receiving a Master of Science in Clinical Social Work from Columbia University in New York City. I then continued my clinical education and obtained a Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D) from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, where I have lived since 2001. I obtained a Certificate in Global Mental Health from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, and am a licensed psychologist in the State of California (PSY24660). I previously completed a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University.
As a psychologist and clinical social worker, my professional life has been dedicated to supporting others through their journeys of migration, and adjustment to new lives in foreign contexts. For the past 30 years, I have provided psychological and psychosocial support for people displaced by interpersonal violence, persecution and human rights abuses in domestic and international contexts. In the United States, I have worked with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the San Francisco Bay Area at Survivors International and the International Rescue Committee; and in New York City at the Roberto Clemente Family Guidance Center. Internationally, I spent several years in West, Central and Southern Africa: working in a rural Lake Volta area of Ghana through Crossroads Africa; at the Trauma Centre Cameroun in Yaoundé, Cameroon through the Center for Victims of Torture, and at the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture in Cape Town, South Africa. I have also lived, studied and worked in Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Mexico and Slovenia.
In 2015 I co-founded Partnerships for Trauma Recovery, a non-profit community mental health organization in Berkeley, providing psychosocial support for forcibly displaced people and communities in Northern California, as well as training for psychology doctoral students through the Global Healing & Human Rights Clinical Training Program. At PTR I was Clinical & Training Director until starting Global Mosaïque Care in 2023. Most recently, I have been a consulting psychologist with the Center for Victims of Torture, the Headington Institute and Survivors of Torture, International. Since 2018, I have also been involved in the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California's Community Psychoanalysis Track & Consortium as a community mental health consultant and steering committee member. Through these deeply meaningful professional experiences, along with ongoing clinical training in global mental health and trauma recovery care, I have developed expertise in supporting people through healing from severe trauma and loss. My commitment to global human rights and international social justice persists.
My clinical orientation is integrative, with close attention to trauma, culture and context, and a focus on depth and meaning. My approach is based in contemporary relational psychodynamic theory, and influenced by humanistic and liberation psychology, attachment theory, and a multi-perspective international lens. I provide support for adults and adolescents, and work with individuals, couples and families. I am fluent in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and services are available in these languages.
Areas of Focus
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Experiences of Migration
Social & Cultural Adjustment Family & Close Relationships Professional & Educational Journeys Life Transitions Parenting |
Experiences of Trauma
Loss & Grief Struggles with Depression & Anxiety Post-Traumatic Stress Global Human Rights & Justice Humanitarian & Non-Profit Work |
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annika.sridharan(at)globalmosaique.org
Tel: +1 (510) 241-2636
annika.sridharan(at)globalmosaique.org
Tel: +1 (510) 241-2636