Advocacy & Collaborations — Psy Shikha Kaushik
Work & Impact

Advocacy & Collaborations

My work extends into advocacy and collaborative efforts with organisations and communities working toward mental health awareness and social impact — creating inclusive spaces, raising visibility, and expanding access to emotional wellbeing support.

"Through partnerships and shared efforts, the aim is to make mental health support more accessible, visible, and understood."

Collaborate With Me
01
Creating Inclusive Spaces
Working with organisations to foster psychologically safe, culturally sensitive environments where mental health can be talked about openly.
02
Raising Awareness
Contributing to campaigns, platforms, and community conversations that normalise mental health and reduce stigma across contexts.
03
Expanding Reach & Access
Partnering with institutions and networks to bring mental health knowledge and support to communities that need it most.
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Areas of Advocacy

Where the Work Is Focused

Advocacy that is grounded in lived understanding, clinical insight, and a genuine commitment to communities — not just conversations.

01
Mental Health Awareness & Destigmatisation
Advocating for a world where mental health is spoken about with the same ease and seriousness as physical health. Through writing, speaking, and direct work — challenging stigma one conversation at a time.
02
Women's Psychological Empowerment
Working alongside organisations and networks to address the specific mental health needs of women — identity, burnout, self-worth, and the invisible pressures that rarely make it into clinical frameworks.
03
Global & Cross-Cultural Wellbeing
Collaborating with international organisations to ensure mental health advocacy reflects cultural diversity — that the frameworks we use are not one-size-fits-all, but genuinely inclusive of different lived realities.
Organisations & Networks

Who I Have
Worked Alongside

UN
United Nations Volunteer Programme
Volunteering contributions to mental health, gender equity, and community wellbeing initiatives
Volunteer
WMHA
World Mental Healthcare Association
Global mental health standards, community dialogue, and international advocacy
Global
MHIN
Mental Health Innovation Network
Knowledge exchange, featured writing, and collaborative initiatives in mental health innovation
Innovation
GWL
Global Women Leadership Network
Advancing women's leadership, recognition, and psychological empowerment globally
Women
STP
She The People
Digital platform for women's voices, stories, and leadership — Digital Women Award recipient
Digital
GHS
Global Health & Pharma
Three international awards recognising mental health platform leadership and advocacy
Recognition
IYS
International Youth Summits
Speaking and advocacy at multiple youth leadership forums on mental health and resilience
Speaking
YGN
Youth Global Network
Youth Ambassador — contributing to global youth wellbeing and mental health advocacy
Ambassador
On Collaboration
Partnerships Built
on Shared Intention
Every collaboration I enter is guided by the same question: does this genuinely serve the communities we say we're here for? The partnerships listed here reflect relationships built not on visibility alone — but on shared values, real work, and mutual respect.
"The most meaningful advocacy happens in collaboration — where different voices, skills, and contexts come together around a shared commitment to human dignity."
Humanitarian Contributions
Ukraine Relief · Mental Health Support
Humanitarian service recognition for contributing mental health support and resources during the Ukraine crisis — 2024. A reminder that advocacy is not only institutional.
Humanitarian Crisis Support 2024
How Collaboration Works

Four Ways We Can
Work Together

Joint Initiatives
Co-creating programmes, campaigns, or events that address mental health access, women's empowerment, or community wellbeing.
Content & Writing
Contributing op-eds, research pieces, columns, or guest articles to platforms and publications advancing the mental health conversation.
Platform Partnerships
Partnering with organisations to amplify mental health resources, co-host events, or cross-promote meaningful work across communities.
Advisory & Representation
Serving in advisory capacities, on panels, or as a representative voice for mental health within institutional and policy conversations.
The Intention Behind It

More Accessible.
More Visible.
More Understood.

Every collaboration and advocacy effort is guided by the same intention: to expand the reach and impact of mental health support so that fewer people feel alone in what they're carrying.


This is not about institutional presence for its own sake. It is about ensuring that the people who most need these conversations — in rural communities, in under-resourced schools, in maritime jobs, in slum neighbourhoods — are not excluded from them.

"Through partnerships and shared efforts, the aim is to expand the reach and impact of mental health support — making it more accessible, visible, and understood."
— Psy Shikha Kaushik
Let's Work Together

Interested in
Collaborating?

If you represent an organisation, network, or platform working in mental health, wellbeing, women's empowerment, or social impact — and you see a meaningful point of connection — I'd welcome the conversation. Reach out with a sense of what you're working on and what kind of collaboration you have in mind.
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What to mention in your message
Your organisationWho you are and what you work on
The collaboration ideaWhat kind of partnership or initiative you have in mind
The community or causeWho this would ultimately serve
Timeline & formatWhether this is short-term, ongoing, or event-specific
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Advocacy is not a side note to the work — it is the work. Because presence, visibility, and voice are themselves forms of care.

— Psy Shikha Kaushik
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