Finding a mental health practitioner can be quite a challenge. While you can search on aggregator platforms, they often don't give you feedback on the practitioner, if they ae judgemental, if they are expensive, etc.
Here are a few lists that are crowdsourced or curated by people
iCall Crowdsourced List of Mental Health Professionals We Can Trust
With names from across India. As they say, "this list is an effort on our part to help people make an informed choice of which mental health professional to access for their needs from a wide range of options. This is a crowd-sourced list and entries are contributed by users of these mental health services who have shared their experience across 50 parameters.
All entries are anonymous. Please note that inclusion does not equal to an endorsement by iCALL, while those not featured in this edition are not to be considered untrustworthy by default."
You can access the list by clicking this link. Last update date indicated
Also, if you have had a positive experience with a mental health professional, we would encourage you to share your experience. Doing so may help someone else who needs a referral. Please follow this link to make an entry
List of Mental Health Practitioners for Young Adults at Nominal Fee or Free by Mahima Kukreja.
This list was made keeping in mind young adults who can't afford therapy. Also keeping in mind queer youth.She can be reached at mahimakukreja@gmail.com and at @AGirlOfHerWords on Twitter and Instagram. Last update date indicated.
Follow this link
SPIF, a community-based platform for organizations and individuals involved or interested in awareness creation, self-care, research, advocacy, training and suicide prevention to come and fight suicide together has put together this list of mental health professionals
Follow this link
List of resources compiled for Project Kintsugi, a support group for people dealing with depression and/or divorce run by Indu Gopalakrishnan.
"Most of them do not know where to start, and to help them get assistance when they need it the most, I put together this repository of useful professional contacts from where they can seek help. It has contacts of lawyers, therapists, psychiatrists, support forums, suicide helplines and other useful contacts."
Click the link here.