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Sadia Saeed – Founder and Chief Psychologist, Inner Space – India

Sadia Saeed: Founder, Psychologist & Mindfulness Trainer

Sadia Saeed

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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 

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 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

book on mindfulness for teens

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

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Education and Training

 
  • Completed her graduation from  St. Xavier’s, Mumbai
  • Completed M.A in Applied Clinical Psychology from Mumbai University
  • Other Trainings:
  1. Mindfulness and the Brain: a course on neuroscience of mindfulness (Australia)
  2. Mindfulness Based Stress Management
  3. Integral Somatic Psychotherapy
  4. Neuro-Linguistic Programming
  5. Several Retreats From various buddhist perspectives on Meditation
  6. Several Vipassana 10-day Courses and a Sattipatthana Course.

Testimonials

Robin Chaurasiya
"I've had the privilege of receiving therapy from Sadia (founder of Inner Space) for over five years, and the only words I can share are, simply, that I owe her my life."
Palka Jain
Thank you Thank you Thank you Sadia for this brilliant module 2, curated with so much heart and such attention to detail for each step at the same time simplifying it to the basics and making everything come together at the end so beautifully. You are giving people their power back which either they have lost or do not even know that they have in the first place. A great service is what it is that you are achieving by offering this knowledge and techniques. For me it has been so much peace and calm like coming home. I always yearned for it but did not know how to reach there. Have never been so comfortable in my skin as I am now like literally. Thank you again to you Sadia and the whole Inner space team for this. Also everyone who were a part of this. Much Love and Gratitude.
Rachna Shah
"I attended 8 week mindfulness course, led by Sadia, who is an insightful and excellent teacher. The course was well designed to help us start our journey towards knowing ourselves better, and definitely helped us staying and dealing with our emotions in a constructive way. Mindfulness brings awareness and staying in the present is one of my biggest takeaways from the course. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to know themselves better and want to know how to deal with emotions."
Pankaj Arora
The session is very well designed to start from scratch and progress at your own pace with help of live and recorded sessions. Sadia has a very deep understanding of various philosophies and has imbibed the best of her learnings in this course, which makes it immensely enriching along with being very practical. She has an extremely positive presence and a very calming demeanor which helps improve your energy level throughout the course. Loved every bit of it. Big thanks to the entire team.
Rekha Chhaya
"In our present times when stress and anxiety are rampant, the mindfulness course feels like an oasis in a desert. One is led through a series of simple regular practice into meditation and an increased awareness of one’s inner and outer world. Supporting this practice are excellent videos which step by step lead you towards a quiet centre of peace within. Sadia’s inspiring and compassionate presence is always there in the videos and especially in the weekly sessions shared by all with their queries and experiences."
SB
"Absolutely loved the Self-Compassion Retreat conducted last month in person in Bombay. It was everything that I had hoped for: intimate group, vulnerable sharing, insightful discussions, and the space to contradict or feel differently and still be respected and accepted. Sadia conducted an excellent session; her stage presence and facilitation skills are great! Look forward to more such sessions and also their 8 week mindfulness course in 2023."
Csaba Wagner
"I had struggled with anxiety and mental health issues for several months before I joined Sadia’s course. Her explanation on what is going on inside our head and body helped me to approach my condition from a brand new perspective. Throughout the 8 weeks, I learned to look at things from a new angle and also to accept things much easier. I highly recommend this course to anyone who’s going through a tough time in life and have difficulties processing the day to day stress / anxiety."
Aparna Jhunjhunwala
"Mindfulness meditation and living in the moment is much needed in today’s times. Sadia and her entire team have introduced the concepts so simply and beautifully. Attending Sadia’s sessions bring a lot of peace to me and I do hope to make this a way of living. This half day retreat on self Conpassion gets me closer to the subject and has brought in a lot of calm and joy."
Saurabh Raye
"The 8 week mindfulness course has been a good experience. The weekly call was very useful and Sadia is a very calming presence. She is a patient teacher and the online resources help immensely. The videos are handpicked with a lot of thought and strengthens the daily practice for the week. Mindfulness has helped to improve resilience and tolerance to stressful situations."
Sana Saeed
"I did Sadia’s 8 week mindfulness course and absolutely loved it. The knowledge and insight given, has been extremely useful when applied to my daily life. Sadia makes the course very personal and patiently attends, to all the needs of her participants. I recommend this course to anyone that wants to indulge deeply into learning more about the self and the mind/body connection."
Shweta Katti ( Kranti)
I personally have been shaped by Sadia di’s wisdom, compassion and love. I have struggled a LOT with mental health issues over the years. Sadia di has been strict when needed and gentle otherwise. She did not only help me heal in therapy but also equipped me with tools to work through difficult emotions in everyday life through her mindfulness sessions.
Renu Sharma
"Thanks to Sadia and her wonderful team for conducting the offline Retreat on Self Compassion. It helped me realize how I understand Compassion to Self and others and how far am I successful in practicing it actually in real life. Thanks for that. Looking forward for more such insightful sessions."
Sudakshina Banerjee
"I attended the 8 week Mindfulness workshop. Helps you to gently unravel the layers within, and find answers to your multiple questions. Sadia's style has almost a lyrical quality, while she gently prods you to explore yourself. I enjoyed every interactive session as well as the practices she taught. Thankyou team Inner Space."

Speaking on Mindfulness of Emotions at TedX

Speaking at the Mindful Leadership Summit

151 thoughts on “Sadia Saeed – Founder and Chief Psychologist, Inner Space – India”

  1. Ophelia

    Hi Sadia,
    My son is 31 years old. He is presently working but has very low confidence and always has negative thinking,
    Was wondering if he needs counselling and if so when and where can he come.

    Thanks

  2. Riaz Peerbhoy

    Hi Sadia

    I am a retd. sr. citizen. For last some weeks I feel depressed and suffering from negativity, fear, loss of interest, bad mood.Lack of sleep has also added to my mood.Pl. help me out. What wll be the fees if I attend your clinc.

    Riaz

  3. vamshi

    Respected madam,

    This is vamshikrishna parlapally from Hyderabad, Madam we are going to launch a educational magazine (English) in this month. Magazine name KNOWLEDGE 360 can you provide your valuable articals for 6th class to +2 students.If you want to send the articals please send to vamshikrishnaparlapally@gmail.com.

    we solicit your valuable patronage madam

    Thanking you.

  4. Sehar

    Dear Dr. Sadia,

    It was nice to see you and your team interacting individually with each person commenting on your blog. My name is Sehar and I work as a Techincal Manager in a MNC. I developed interest in counselling some time back and I also completed my one year diploma in guidance and counselling (distance learning with some workshops added on) from Jamia. I feel though elite have quite an access to counselling services in India, but there is a whole congregation of middle class and less economically privileged people in India who are in dire need of these services. I wanted to reach out to them and started a weekly counselling session in my neighbourhood (free of cost) where anybody can contact me. I felt, people are still not aware about what the counselling is or its benefits, but I was happy that I was able to help out a handful of them. I want to make a career out of this, where I can help average people with their problems. But as I am working, can you suggest me how to proceed in this direction. Are there part time options in Counselling as a career as currently I am employed and do not want to loose out on my job before anything concrete occurs in this field for me.

    Your any kind of suggestions would be very helpful for me.

    Thanks,
    Sehar

  6. Muzammil Madre

    Respected Madam,

    As we are NRI as we are coming to Mumbai we want to consult you for my eight year old son wht is the procedure plz let us know as we have a short stay in Mumbai and we are residing towards thane so plz guide us

  7. Angira

    Hi Sadia.
    I have completed my graduation in Psychology and Masters in Applied linguistics with Psycho and Neuro-linguistics and certification in REBT. I am keen to apply the learning’s in the real world and hence looking for an opportunity. Kindly let me know, if there is an opportunity.
    Thanks and Regards

  8. vrushti

    Hello ma’am,
    I have appeared for 12th exam and results are awaited. but one thing I am pretty sure is, I want to pursue clinical psychology. I am very keen to know this subject and it’s practice in depth, like i want to know how does the process goes? how to talk to your patient and build a rapport? and everything. I would be glad if I could meet you in person and work with you. Thank you so much and warm regards!

  9. krunal

    Hello Sadia,
    Glad you’re just around recently as I just wanted to get in touch directly with you only.

    Hey I just went on and it got so long I’ve copy pasted it sent with a mail. Can you please go through it sadia.

    Thanks.

  10. Rupali

    Hello Dr. Sadia,

    Glad to see your work and the concept of Iner Space.
    I am a HR professional with 5 years of experience and wish to explore the field of Psychotherapy and Counselling as a practitioner.My Qualifications: B.A. (Economics) and MBA.
    I am looking forward for a post graduate degree which i can do along with work that is internationally accepted, in case i plan to practice out of India.
    Request your inputs please

    Regards
    Rupali

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The Art of Listening

A young woman from another country moved with her family to live for one year in a town near the monastery. When, in the course of the year she discovered the monastery, she would periodically visit to have discussions with the Abbess. The Abbess introduced her to meditation, which became very meaningful for the young woman.

When the family’s year-long stay was drawing to an end, the young woman asked the Abbess, “In my country there is no Buddhism and no one has even heard about meditation. How can I continue to learn and deepen the practice you have started me on?”

The Abbess said, “When you return home ask far and wide for who, among the wise people, is recognized as having the greatest ability to listen. Ask that person to instruct you in the art of listening. What you learn about listening from such a person will teach you how to further your meditation practice.

― Gil Fronsdal, A Monastery Within: Tales from the Buddhist Path