Her Story
About Pratibha
Pratibha PhD serves as an educator and psychologist in San Jose, California. She started her professional journey teaching elementary school before earning a master's degree and moving into higher education, where she worked as both an educator and an administrator. Throughout her career, she has found particular fulfillment in counseling students, helping them gain clarity about their career and life goals. Her areas of specialization include breath practices, meditation, yoga, and guiding individuals toward self-development. Pratibha emphasizes the importance of assisting people in uplifting themselves from dullness to greater clarity and light, drawing on insights from the study of the cosmos, which highlights the interplay between materiality and consciousness. She values helping clients address their own issues through counseling and encourages acceptance and happiness in one's chosen path.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Pratibha
01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Talking to people about their career is significant. People who are happy about themselves and what they do have to accept and like what they're doing. We are not always able to do exactly what we may want to do but it has to be accepted and you will find you have to be happy doing what you're doing.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
My field is very large. I began with teaching elementary school and progressed to higher education as educator and administrator. The one thing I always enjoyed the most was counseling the students, helping students decide what they want to do in life. When you know what you want to do it makes the processes easier. When you have more clarity the actions that you need to take are easier to perform.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
It's really a helping profession. When you want to help people to be what they would like to be, they would like to figure out things. Counseling is always helping get across how they can solve an issue. What I prefer from clients is for them to bring the issues that they want to work on, whether it's with someone else or for themselves.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
The values that are important is assisting people to help themselves really, to uplift themselves in where they feel they need to. They get out of a dullness and have more clarity. When you study about the cosmos you learn that there are two things in life: materiality and consciousness. Everyone is made up of both. Within materiality we have what is uplifting and what is dullness. A lot of life is working constantly towards the light, towards success that is uplifting.
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