Telepsych Pakistan was founded as an online mental health service provider in 2020 to make affordable psychotherapy and mental health care accessible to everyone. An estimated 50 million people (1 in 4 people) in Pakistan face a mental health challenge and the combined number of psychologists and psychiatrists in the country is a little over a thousand (that’s one mental health professional for 100,000 people). The situation of mental health care and resources outside of Pakistan is not too encouraging either. Telepsych Pakistan is committed to bridging this cavernous gap not only by offering culturally grounded and realistically holistic mental health services, but also by creating awareness and re-educating the general public about mental health and wellbeing.
Not only this, we aim to build a committed community of mental health professionals by making them aware of the crises within the mental health field and alternative approaches to mental health treatments. With a varied team of Psychiatric Consultants, Psychologists and Mental Health Coaches, Telepsych Pakistan has provided discounted and fully sponsored sessions to over 50% of our collaborators (clients). As the unmet need for mental health services continues to grow, Telepsych Pakistan is committed to “meeting you where you are” in your journey towards a better you!
The Team at Telepsych Pakistan is a highly committed, qualified, trained and experienced group of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Mental Health Coaches and Care Coordinators who are ready to offer you the best of help.
We at Telepsych Pakistan believe in more than just the bare minimum. Our work stands on three institutional pillars of the Clinic, the Academy and the Community, all directed towards the aim of making mental wellbeing and human growth an actuality. TelePsych Pakistan values a multifaceted rather than a unidimensional approach. Dedicated to each of our three pillars; Healing, Education and Community, we believe that each one is incomplete without the others.
We envision a community that is truly hopeful, appreciates its members as unique individuals for who they are and facilitates their positive development towards who they can be. In other words, it accords them dignity and facilitates their self-actualization. Our work in these three dimensions is an effort to build relationships among these three institutions for the betterment of the individual and the community.
Telepsych Pakistan operates on the foundational philosophy of relationality, a comprehensive framework connecting oneself and others around the central axis of meaning. We recognize that our physical and psychological capacities, and by extension our social and economic ones, are vital conduits for the fulfillment of meaning. These capacities, while shaping the parameters of our experience, also serve as instrumental means toward meaning fulfillment. Bolstering these means results in enhanced capacity for meaning fulfillment, and ignoring these means is to the detriment of the same.
In committing ourselves to the task of community building, we seek to facilitate the fulfillment of this meaning in the lives of our community members. Our services, whether academic or clinical, are designed to bolster capacities that can be employed as means for enhanced meaning. Happiness, in this context, is understood not as the end-goal but as a by-product of achieving a fulfilling sense of meaningfulness. Accordingly, we adopt an integrated approach, aimed at recognizing life’s limitations while also providing pathways for their transcendence, elevating the capacity for and experience of meaningfulness for both ourselves and our community members.
“Telepsych Pakistan emerged not merely as an organization, but as a movement, a response to a deep-seated crisis within the mental health field. It was a crisis where mental health itself, along with its profoundly human aspects, was being increasingly marginalized and overlooked. Our story began in an environment where the aspirations to understand and nurture human psychology were consistently frustrated, not only in graduate programs but also within postgraduate training institutions. We witnessed firsthand how the genuine essence of mental health care was being sacrificed at the altar of pharmaceutical dominance and departmental politics. In this landscape, where humanity was overshadowed by commercial and bureaucratic interests, Telepsych Pakistan was born – a collective realization among us that change was imperative and it was up to us to initiate it.”
“Our aspirations soon met the harsh realities of capitalism. We quickly learned that academic rigor and ethical consciousness, while essential, were not enough. The world of mental health care was also one of crafty marketing, aggressive business strategies, and the need for political savvy. This realization was a turning point, compelling us to adapt without compromising our core values.”
“Today, Telepsych Pakistan stands as a testament to our journey – one of increasing consciousness, renunciation, and rebirth. Like human development, our growth is continuous and cyclical. We embrace each challenge as an opportunity to learn and evolve, staying true to our mission of transforming mental health care. We are a movement, a community, and a beacon of hope, continually striving to bring about the change we believe in.”
“In the face of these challenges, we at Telepsych Pakistan resolved to be the change we sought in the field. Our identity as mental health professionals is not just a label; it’s a commitment to redress the inadequacies we’ve witnessed in the mental health field. We are not critics from the outside looking in; we are integral members of this community, dedicated to reconstructing the field with a critical yet compassionate approach. Our critique is not of progressiveness but of an intellectual regressiveness, a legacy of colonial thought patterns that have long shadowed the field.”
“In the face of these challenges, we at Telepsych Pakistan resolved to be the change we sought in the field. Our identity as mental health professionals is not just a label; it’s a commitment to redress the inadequacies we’ve witnessed in the mental health field. We are not critics from the outside looking in; we are integral members of this community, dedicated to reconstructing the field with a critical yet compassionate approach. Our critique is not of progressiveness but of an intellectual regressiveness, a legacy of colonial thought patterns that have long shadowed the field.”