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About Us
Sargam Mona Jain, MD
Dr. Jain (she/her) graduated from New York University with a BA in philosophy and linguistics. Following medical school, she completed her psychiatric residency at Weill Cornell Medical College, followed by a fellowship in community psychiatry at Columbia University. During this time, she worked in Cuba, Guatemala, Brazil, Tanzania, New Orleans and India examining systems of mental health care for underserved people.
Seeking a way to further connect the internal, external, individual and community in patient care, she undertook psychoanalytic training at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Psychoanalysis is a theory of the structure and processes of the unconscious mind as it manifests through dreams, free association and collective culture. Most forms of Western psychotherapy are derived from psychoanalysis, the first Western “talking cure” for psychological difficulties.
Coming to the realization that language is not enough to understand the mind, Dr. Jain trained in the somatically-based, trauma-focused methods of narrative exposure therapy (NET) with Vivo International. She has also completed extensive coursework in textile science and design in the belief that aesthetics, particularly tactile experiences, can aid healing of primal, pre-verbal traumas.
Tanveer Ahmed, MD
Dr. Ahmed (she/her) earned her MD from George Washington University, where she stayed to complete her Psychiatry Residency Program. She went on to do a Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The New York Presbyterian Hospital Program of Columbia and Cornell Universities. She has studied yoga and vipassana meditation in India. She practiced on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for numerous years before transitioning her practice online, and moving to the Berkshires in 2018. She is also the psychiatrist for Simon’s Rock Early College Program of Bard College.
Dr. Ahmed grew up in the culture and practices of South Asia. This rich heritage, along with the western medical training she went through, informs all aspects of her practice. As an immigrant, and woman of color, she brings a unique empathy and approach to each patient. She also has an appreciation for the mystical, and understands the value of altered states of consciousness. Working with psychedelics is a natural progression of this, as an accessible way to walk a path that humans have taken in many different ways through history.
Dr. Ahmed grew up in the culture and practices of South Asia. This rich heritage, along with the western medical training she went through, informs all aspects of her practice. As an immigrant, and woman of color, she brings a unique empathy and approach to each patient. She also has an appreciation for the mystical, and understands the value of altered states of consciousness. Working with psychedelics is a natural progression of this, as an accessible way to walk a path that humans have taken in many different ways through history.