Aritra Chatterjee ([email protected])

Aritra Chatterjee (she/her) is a consultant clinical psychologist licensed with the Rehabilitation Council of India and a mental health researcher. Currently, she is affiliated with the Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta, as a doctoral researcher. In professional capacity, she is affiliated with Rocket Health, India as a registered practitioner and provides mental health services to users locally and globally. Her practice spans modalities of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and third wave approaches with an identity-affirming focus and orientation towards social justice and intersectionality.

Aritra is ardently involved in multiple initiatives foregrounding best practices pertaining to LGBTQIA+ mental health. She has been an advisory committee member for multiple community-centred projects led by Sangath India. Alongside, she has been a peer support trainer for Varta Trust and BDS Samobhabona, Kolkata: non-governmental organizations and collectives involved in queer-trans rights and advocacy in India. She has also been a programme facilitator at the One Future Collective for a well-being programme centring trans-masculine individuals in collaboration with Bengal Transmen Collective in 2025. Recently, she was invited as a trainer/resource person for the Queer Trans Affirmative Mental Health Practice programme organized by TISS, India and IOP-COE, Kolkata as part of the CARET Consortium in March 2026. Aside from this, she has been invited as keynote speaker as part of multiple conferences, fireside chats and corporate panels.

Aritra’s research interest lies at the intersections of LGBTQ+ mental health, social justice, ethics and qualitative analyses. She began her researcher journey by studying healthcare interactions of LGBTQ+ service users with mental health service providers in contexts of care, the site of her study being Kolkata, India. She later expanded her research to study nature of micro-aggressions experienced by the same population of service-users in India from service-providers in the context of seeking mental healthcare. At present, she is researching how joyful and affirming experiences can alter pathways of seeking care for gender and sex minorities. She has published in national and international scientific journals in her disciplinary areas and has served as a peer reviewer for reputed journals such as International Journal of Transgender Health, BMC Women’s Health, Journal of Homosexuality, to a name a few.

Aritra is fond of cats, nature, art and birds, coffee and finds living incomplete without these quintessential elements of solace and happiness.