Jill is a mental health practitioner and the Co-founder and Director of the
Narrative Practices India Collective. She received a Ph. D. in Psychology from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and her research explores and brings forward voices of autistic young people in India. Jill has a Masters in Applied Psychology from Mumbai University and a Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Pace University, New York.

Jill has always been interested in people’s stories and loves to witness the
sparkle in people’s eyes and voices when they speak about their hopes and
dreams. She has been drawn towards narrative ideas and practices and holds a stance of social justice and a hope to nurture preferred ways of being when she collaborates with communities, groups and individuals in therapeutic conversations. She continues to explore narrative practices in diverse spaces through conceptualizing and facilitating trainings in collaboration with communities, therapists, and educators working in the field of mental health.

Jill is a visiting faculty at the University Department of Applied Psychology, Mumbai University since 2022, where she teaches courses with the intention to make visible the role of oppressive structures in maintaining problems in the lives of people and communities and to explore hope in ways that have not been imagined. Jill is also a research guide and she guides students to conduct research from a social constructionist lens.
Jill has co-founded Happie World in 2014, a leisure and fun space for disabled young people. She has also been a part of Ummeed Child Development Center since 2009, where she currently works as a consultant.

Jill has published articles about her work in Indian and international journals and has been invited to speak about her work at several conferences. She hopes to collaborate with more young people in the disability space and write about deconstructing the disability experience, centering voices of self- advocates and challenging ideas of ableism and other oppressive systemic discourses.