The practice story

Every thread has a story. This one is ours.

Weave, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry is a psychiatry and therapy practice in Kanjurmarg West, Mumbai, seeing people in person and online across India.

Weave was built by two people who know what it means to need it. Medication, therapy, and meaning sit in one conversation here, and the practice is deliberately small so the conversation has room to breathe.

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The hand-drawn Weave logomark made from crossing threads
  • Kanjurmarg West, Mumbai
  • Consultant-led care
  • English, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani
  • 1:30 to 3:00 PM, all days

The short version

In short

What Weave is

Weave, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry is a psychiatry and therapy practice in Kanjurmarg West, Mumbai, India, seeing people in person at the clinic and online across India.

Who you see

Dr. Niharika Reddy, Consultant Psychiatrist, is the co-founder and clinical lead; she holds an MBBS and an MD in Psychiatry, and she is the clinician a person sees.

What care covers

Care at Weave covers adults, young people, couples and families, and includes psychiatric assessment, therapy, and review of medication where medication is clinically appropriate.

Education and digital

Dr. Wilfred D'souza, a psychiatry resident and the digital and educational lead working under her supervision, builds the practice's free library and its digital tools.

Hours and languages

Hours are 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM all days including Sunday, in English, Hindi, Kannada and Konkani, and WhatsApp messages to +91 7625004229 get a reply within one working day.

What Weave says plainly

Some situations need in-person assessment or local emergency care, and Weave says so plainly when that is the case.

A warm, sunlit therapy room: a sofa and armchair angled toward each other, two cups of chai on a low table, a lamp, a plant, and a striped woven throw

Two threads, one cloth

What Weave means

The name is literal. Weave, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry is two threads.

One is clinical: assessment, medication where it helps, attention to body and brain. The other is personal: a history, the people in it, the patterns that kept someone safe.

Neither thread is the whole cloth. Many people have met one of two versions of psychiatry: a prescription in ten minutes, or talk alone even where medication would help. Weave was built to be both halves at once, because healing happens in layers.

The first layer is the self.

A person carries parts of themselves they show, and parts they hide or have long forgotten. Becoming whole has less to do with fixing them than with reconciling them.

The second layer is the story.

The past, the life being lived now, and the future someone is reaching toward are not separate chapters. Reading them as one narrative changes what they say.

The third layer is connection.

Recovery rarely happens alone. Family, friendship and community shape how a person feels and grows, which makes the people around someone part of the work.

The fourth layer is belonging.

Something shifts in good care when a person stops feeling like the only one who has ever felt this way. What follows is quieter than relief: the recognition of being part of something larger, which is where lasting change tends to live.

These four layers are not a framework we invented. They are what we watched work in our own lives before we saw it in anyone else's.

The division of labour

One practice, two kinds of work

Weave does two kinds of work, and it is worth saying which is which.

Care

Dr. Niharika Reddy, Consultant Psychiatrist, co-founder and clinical lead. Every consultation, every plan, every prescription. She is the person someone sees in the room, and the person whose judgment shapes the plan.

Education and digital

Dr. Wilfred D'souza, psychiatry resident, digital and educational lead, working under her supervision. The free library, the study material, the software and this website. His work is what the practice publishes and what it runs on.

Consultant and clinical lead

Dr. Niharika Reddy

Consultant Psychiatrist, co-founder and clinical lead

Degrees
an MBBS and an MD in Psychiatry
Focus
relationships, women's mental health, children and families
Interest
neuromodulation research
Languages
English, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani
Formats
in person in Kanjurmarg West, and online across India
A warm morning still life: a steaming cup of chai on a woven coaster, an open notebook with a pen, reading glasses, and jasmine beside an empty sage chair

"I see what you're carrying."

Dr. Niharika Reddy is the person someone sees at Weave, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry.

She grew up in a household where performance was everything. She wanted to be every teacher's favourite, and to top every exam. She was among the top students in her state in her MD examination, and by most measures she was succeeding.

Residency changed what success meant. Sitting with people in real distress, she found there was more to life than winning, and more to care than competence.

The rigour that made her excellent on paper made her thorough in the room.

She was almost married once. She chose to walk away, because she wanted more from a partnership than she was being offered.

Many people know the feeling of wanting more and not knowing whether they are allowed to ask. She made that the work of her life.

She has sat inside difficult family situations herself. Her training in Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) gave her a way to read what families do to each other under pressure, and a steadiness she now brings to other families.

She is neurodivergent herself, recognised late, as it is for many women. She knows how much gets missed when a woman is bright, coping, and quietly exhausted.

She connects especially with women carrying difficult relationships and life transitions, with families making room for more than one person's needs, and with children.

Some people prefer to consult a woman psychiatrist; at Weave, that is who a person sees.

Digital and educational lead

Dr. Wilfred D'souza

Psychiatry resident, digital and educational lead

Degrees
an MBBS, and is completing an MD in Psychiatry
Makes at Weave, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry
the Family Library in five languages, study guides for psychiatry trainees, Aporia essays, Weave Letters
Languages
English, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Konkani
A night desk still life: a closed laptop under a warm lamp, steaming chai, headphones, a spool of thread with a small woven band, and a crescent moon in the window

"I see what you could be."

Dr. Wilfred D'souza grew up in Ajara, a small town in Maharashtra. Nobody had a name for the way his attention worked.

So he got what most Indian children in that position get instead of help: scolding from family and teachers, labels like "lazy" and "not living up to potential." He was bullied, and had few friends.

Over time he struggled with mood, relationships, and later addiction. None of it made sense at the time. It just felt like failure.

Things clicked during his psychiatry residency. He was learning textbook psychiatry and, at the same time, why his own mind had worked the way it did.

Today he calls it what it is. He is AuDHD, and the pattern-hungry way his mind moves is the same thing that once got him called lazy.

Psychiatry became personal, not in a wounded-healer way but a practical one. He decided his work would be to prevent the exact kind of suffering he went through.

The same neurodivergent focus that made school hard is what taught him to build. With Claude Code, an AI coding tool he taught himself, he wrote the clinical reasoning layer of the practice's own software, and this website itself.

Care built by someone who has needed it shows its gaps early.

His working belief: the thing holding a person back can become the thing that drives them forward.

Plain answers

What we're good at

IN THE ROOM

Relationships and life transitions.

Couples, families, and the stretches where a life is changing shape.

Women's mental health.

Care that takes seriously what a woman is carrying and what has gone unnoticed.

Children and families.

Work with a child and with the family around the child, not one without the other.

Assessment, therapy, medication review.

Medication is discussed when it is clinically appropriate, with its limits stated.

AROUND THE ROOM

Software built in-house.

The practice's own tools and this website, built by the people who use them.

Aporia

Clinical reasoning, in public

Clinical honesty includes showing how a question is approached, where the evidence is strong, and where it runs out. Aporia is the public writing of Weave, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry, for clinicians and students, with the reasoning left visible rather than dressed up as certainty.

The same rule governs the free material. It is written by Dr. Wilfred D'souza and medically reviewed by Dr. Niharika Reddy, MD Psychiatry, Consultant Psychiatrist. A page carries that review line after she has reviewed it, and not before.

Read Aporia in the Library Family Library

Standards without theatre

Care held in daylight

Some things about how care is held are worth stating rather than leaving implied.

Reasoning explained.

Why an option is being considered, what the trade-offs are, and what the alternatives are.

Plans reviewed.

Care changes when new information appears, or when an option turns out not to fit.

Limits named.

Some situations need in-person assessment or local emergency care. Where another professional is a better fit, that is said plainly and a referral is made. A prescription is not promised before assessment, and no result or timeline is promised at any stage.

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Address and hours

Where is Weave, and when is it open?

Weave is a psychiatry and therapy practice in Mumbai.Dr. Niharika Reddy, MD Psychiatry, is the consultant psychiatrist, co-founder and clinical lead, and she is the clinician a person sees.Dr. Wilfred D'souza is a psychiatry resident and the digital and educational lead.He offers Therapy Support under her supervision.The practice works in English, Hindi, Kannada and Konkani.Dr. Reddy also consults at Powai by appointment, and online video consultations run across India.A brief consultation of 30 minutes is INR 1,800.A full consultation of 50 minutes is INR 2,800.A family session of 60 minutes is INR 6,000.An extended session of 90 minutes is INR 7,500.Weave keeps no booking page and no payment page, by choice.A first message goes to WhatsApp on +91 7625004229, and a person replies within one working day.Weekend messages are answered by Monday.

Before reaching out

Common questions

Who will I see at Weave?

The consultant psychiatrist at Weave, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry is Dr. Niharika Reddy, co-founder and clinical lead. The practice is deliberately small, so one clinician holds the plan. Where another professional fits better, that is said plainly and a referral is made.

What are the psychiatrist's qualifications?

Dr. Niharika Reddy holds an MBBS and an MD in Psychiatry. She works with adults, young people, couples and families. Consultations run in English, Hindi, Kannada and Konkani, in Kanjurmarg West, Mumbai, and online across India.

What does Dr. Wilfred D'souza do at Weave?

Dr. Wilfred D'souza is a psychiatry resident and the digital and educational lead. He writes and builds the free material the practice publishes and its digital tools. He is not a treating clinician and takes no bookings.

Where is Weave, and when is it open?

Weave, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry is at Runwal Forests Clinic, Ground Floor, Tower 5, Runwal Forests, Kanjurmarg West, Mumbai. It is open 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM, all days including Sunday. Walk-ins are welcome and an appointment is recommended.

Who writes and reviews the free material on this site?

The free material is written by Dr. Wilfred D'souza, psychiatry resident and digital and educational lead, and medically reviewed by Dr. Niharika Reddy, MD Psychiatry. A reviewed page carries her name and the review date; pages not yet reviewed do not.

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Where to go next

The conversation can start small. A first message does not need the whole story; a sentence or two is enough.

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