MBBS
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College & Sion Hospital, Mumbai.
Dr. Ruksheda
Syeda
Born and raised in Mumbai, I’ve spent over two decades helping adolescents, young adults, women and families find their footing — in a room where nobody has to pretend, perform, or translate their feelings into medical language.
I trained at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College (Sion) and specialised in psychiatry at G.S. Medical College & KEM Hospital, with a WHO Fellowship in psychosocial rehabilitation.
My style is warm but structured:
- we start with what’s actually bothering you — not a checklist,
- we look at the whole family system, because minds don’t live alone,
- and medication, when needed, is explained sans jargon, always.
Outside the clinic I’m a community mental-health advocate — charitable clinics, school and NGO workshops, media work as a mental-health expert, and MARG, the public-service initiative we launched in 2017.
What I specialise in:
Qualifications &
a life’s work
DPM, Psychiatry
G.S. Medical College & KEM Hospital — specialisation in psychiatry.
WHO Fellowship
Psychosocial rehabilitation — representing India internationally.
2× TEDx speaker
Simplifying mental health for everyone — no jargon, all heart.
IPS — Women’s MH
Convener, women’s mental health specialty section, Indian Psychiatric Society.
MARG & community
Charitable clinics, school & NGO workshops, and MARG — public-service mental-health initiative, since 2017.
“My role is not to fix you — it’s to walk alongside, while you reconnect with your own steadiness.”
— Dr. Ruksheda, probably while offering you chai