Sadia Saeed: Founder, Psychologist & Mindfulness Trainer
Profile Summary
Sadia Saeed, with 25 years of experience, is the founder of Inner Space, a leading therapy platform with a team of skilled psychotherapists. A key focus of Inner Space is its mindfulness meditation courses, primarily led by Sadia and occasionally supported by her team.
Sadia’s extensive work includes psychotherapy, overseeing activities of Inner Space and developing and facilitating mindfulness programs and retreats for individuals and organizations.
Key Contributions
Mindfulness and Meditation
- She has created and facilitated several courses rooted in mindfulness meditation, Somatic psychology and Indian wisdom traditions including the ‘8-Week Mindfulness Meditation Course’ and Residential Meditation Retreats
Corporate Training
- She has created and facilitated ‘The Mindful Organization‘ program for many corporates and Non-Profits as a way of integrating Mindfulness into the organization’s culture to promote resilience, team connection and well-being.
- She has designed, developed, and facilitated several stress-management and emotional resilience programs for corporate organizations such as Microsoft, Mercedes, Oberoi group of Hotels, ABP News, HP and GroupM among others.
Therapeutic Work
- She has undertaken therapy sessions with thousands of individuals dealing with personal or relationship difficulties over the past two decades. At present, she focuses exclusively on group sessions in the form of mindfulness and meditation courses, to help people better understand and relate to their thoughts, emotions and subconscious patterns that are creating difficulties and unhappiness.
- She has worked at Karuna Hospital, Mumbai as the hospital clinical psychologist from 2005 to 2011.
Community Work
- Meditation with Children of Sex-Workers: She is associated with Kranti, a non-profit, to bring therapy and mindfulness meditation to children of sex-workers.
- Social-Emotional Learning in Government Schools: She is associated with Apni Shala, a non-profit that works to build social emotional learning in government schools. She facilitates mindfulness trainings for their staff and helps them optimize their curriculum using best practices from the fields of psychology, meditation and Indian wisdom traditions.
- Indian Airforce: She is a Guest Faculty for mindfulness training programs for Indian Airforce at Palam
- Bringing Poetry and wisdom of Saints to Schools: She is supporting Shabad Shaala, which is an initiative to get the wisdom and poetry of Indian saints and sufis to school children. She supports them in helping build some aspects of the curriculum and facilitating teacher immersion ssessions.
- Year-Long Mindfulness with Non-Profits: During Covid she helped in creating and facilitating year long mindfulness trainings for the staff of several Non-profits in association with Empower. The sessions were facilitated by the Inner Space team and were aimed at helping the particpants build resilience and bring mindfulness to other beneficiaries of their organizations.
- Work with Girl Children in Kashmir: in 2009 she associated with Borderless World Foundation in Kashmir. She volunteered with girl children who had lost their parents due to terrorism related activities.
Publications and Public Speaking
- Author of the Book You Are Simply Perfect: She has authored a book, published by Penguin/Puffin books, for teenagers called ‘You are Simply Perfect’, aimed at helping young people adopt principles of Indian and Eastern philosphies to live more joyfully.
- Speaker at Tedx: She has participated in a TEDx conference where she spoke on “Staying in the Eye of the Storm: Mindfulness of Emotions”
- Speaker at Mindfulness Summit, Delhi: She has spoken on various mindfulness summit at Delhi and Gurgaoon on the impact of meditation, highlighting the neuroscience behind the practice: Mindfulness for Emotional Resilience (A talk on neuroplasticity and mindfulness
A Mindfulness &
Self-Awareness Guide
By Sadia Saeed
This book is written with an intention to help young people live freely and joyfully with learnings from Indian wisdom traditions and best practices from the field of psychotherapy
Education and Training
- Completed her graduation from St. Xavier’s, Mumbai
- Completed M.A in Applied Clinical Psychology from Mumbai University
- Other Trainings:
- Mindfulness and the Brain: a course on neuroscience of mindfulness (Australia)
- Mindfulness Based Stress Management
- Integral Somatic Psychotherapy
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Several Retreats From various buddhist perspectives on Meditation
- Several Vipassana 10-day Courses and a Sattipatthana Course.
Dear Sadia,
I am working on a project where I would require some inputs from a professional psychologist to understand the human behaviour. Would it be possible for us to connect via email or phone before we can meet?
Thanks,
Chirag
Hello.. Ms Sadia
I’m Shalini and i’m in class 10th. I first heard the word ‘psychology’ in class 9th and since then this field has fascinated me. i have decided to bcome clinical psychologist.
I love to observe people and their behavior. While sitting idly in class i observe my classmates. I knw thts funny. 😀
I juSt love your site and now you are my inspiration. 🙂 tankew to teach me “never to stop” !!!
hey.i am pooja.i hav just given my tenth and the results will be out in just 4 to 5 days.and now i am in a solid confusion as to what should i take.i found psycology interesting but actually i need more information as to what type of study in this subject would be???because i need some strong reason that for wat am i choosing dis as my career.actually i like singing too.but as u know alone singing cant work so u need a backup plan rite???so i was thinking y not join music and psychology???i.e music therapy ????but it has not came in india but according to me it would cum soon.so what should i do for music therapy???please help me out asap.also i want to continue music so i guess the studies wont be so hectic rite???and which colleges in mumbai r good for psychology???also please tell me about d job prospects in this career and is this more lucrative than a psychatrist????please explain what the study wud be all about.plsss ..it would be very helpful for meee…..
hope u will get my problems solveddd….. please replyy as early as possible!!!!!! as i hav to make a decision fasttt
thanking youuuu
Dear Sadia ,
This is some really great work that you are doing here. Leaves many inspired.
I was hoping to get some advice from you on pursuing a career in Psychology. I completed my Bachelors in mass Media from Mumbai University , where in I had only one paper in Psychology. I further went on to do a Masters in Public Relations ..Following which I worked in the PR industry for 2.5 years only to realize that I was more keen on being in the psychology industry. I now am hopeful of pursuing a MA in Psychology from Mumbai University and then a Phd..
If you could just throw some light on how important is it to hold a bachelors degree in psychology if one wishes to make a career as a psychologist and start ones own practice. What are the criteria to start ones own practice ?
Also if I enroll myself this year for their Masters Course , is there any kind of internship opportunity I could explore with your counselling center. Your enterprise really appeals to me and I would love to be a part of it and maximize my learnings as I make my enthusiastic entry into this field.
Would love to hear from you soon .
Thanks !
Hello Ms Sadia,
I would really like some help with a few things.
I just completed my Bachelors in Mass Media and have been very eager to swerve to the field of Psychology. I got accepted for a personal interview by Christ University, Bangalore for Msc.Clinical Psych but the dates clashed with my Board exams and they never rescheduled.
I have the option of Fergusson College,Pune, however they prefer students of a psychology background, I’ve heard and they have only 20 seats out of which a few are reserved for ST/SC and OBC. Even TISS requires a BA Background and I was wondering if I could take up a course from Mumbai University(If there is such a course for one year) wherein I would complete a diploma in Psychology to be at par with the BA students.
I’m wondering what other options I have.
Would really love to hear from you,
Thankyou,
Apphia.
Hi Sadia 🙂
Has been a big time admirer of this blog/site since long.
I am currently pursuing MA Psychology Distance education/correspondence IGNOU. All I need to know sister is does an IGNOU certification will have any weight? And also I am confused about choosing a specialization for my second year, Clinical or Counselling? What according to you will have better job opportunities, because I have been told Clinical is more lucrative, I just needed to clarify it with you as I believe you are a veteran in this area of discipline 🙂
Thank you in advance, and also would like to appreciate your kindness and effort to reply to everyone 🙂
P.S. Is it okay if I send you a friend request on google plus?
HI
i am pranit i have just completed my 12th science exams and waiting for the results.
since a young age i was interested in human behaviour and thinking why such and such things happens with people.
i always wanted to change our society and make it better place for humans
i believe psychology can help me change this society a bit
psychology was always the thing that i wanted to do when i grow up but u know as a child every kid has different dreams even i had many of them but now when its the time to choose my career now i have actually know what i want to be and i have zeroed in on psychology i went on through many sites and got to know many branches about psychlogy but i wanted to get a help from a psychologist about how to continue my career from here on in simple words like which colleges in mumbai and bangalore are good how many years will it be from now on till my phd and psyD in psychology etc.
hope u’ll help me out with these 🙂
hello..
i am really impressed after reading ur work profile.. i have recently given my 10th std board exams.. i am really fascinated by this field of psychology..and i think u r the best person to guide me..
Do I have to take admission in science? what is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist?
4 becoming a psychiatrist is it necessary to go in medical field? or are there other ways too?? if yes…what are they?? is psychiatracy different from clinical psychology?
pls guide and help me to overcome my dilema…
Hello,
I just went through ur profile and it is worth appreciating and inspiring as well.
I would be greatful to u if u can guide me for the following,
I have done my b.sc, after 2 yrs i joined correspondence MBA (HR specialization), my MBA will be completed in next 8-9 months and then i want to opt for MA psycology through mum university as correspondence cource;
Is it possible for me to do this as i dnt hv any Arts background
Hi Doctor Sadia,
I don’t know if you remember me as I last met u at the Karuna hospital in 2006. U can check my profile on facebook as well.. I just stumbled upon this site and wanted to know if anyone could get counselling via this site… Good job on this site….