Indhushree Rajan, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, dedicating her entire career to working in diverse cultural and socio-economic communities within California and India. As an educator, counselor, and advocate in the nonprofit sector and at-risk, alternative education system, Dr. Rajan works with child, adolescent, and adult survivors of complex trauma (physical, sexual, medical, and psychological).

For the past 12 years, Dr. Rajan has been doing research and clinical work with sex trafficking survivors in California and India. In 2008, Dr Rajan founded Project Satori and has since been working to realize its mission to: provide comprehensive mental health care to survivors of human trafficking and their families worldwide; promote education and advocacy around the global sex trafficking crisis; and offer psychoeducational training services about sex trafficking prevention and treatment in California, and through global partner programs worldwide.

Dr. Rajan has been an activist and advocate for the environment and eco-consciousness her entire adult life, briefly working with Greenpeace and Amnesty International. She has participated in events, marches, and protests concerning environmental and humanitarian issues, such as: the campaign to save the California gnatcatcher from extinction; preserving ecosystems threatened by land-developers in Orange County, CA.; and standing with Standing Rock against the oil pipeline. Dr. Rajan explains, “My depth psychological education serves me well in this regard, as I strongly believe that human beings and Nature share one consciousness, and must find balance in co-existence if we are to survive.”

As an internationally published author and public speaker, Dr. Rajan has written and spoken extensively on topics including: human trafficking; modern-day sexual slavery and forced prostitution; immigration and refugee trauma; feminism; post-coloniality; social justice; indigenous rights; and cultural issues in therapy and research.

Dr. Rajan is a faculty member in the clinical and depth psychology programs at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA., and sees clients in private practice. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2014, her MA in postmodern and postcolonial literature and cultural theory from California State University, Fullerton, in 2004, and her BA in literature, with a minor is social ecology, from the University of California, Irvine, in 1995. She was also a scholar in the International Baccalaureate program in Copenhagen, Denmark.