FAQs
If you would like to book a clinical consultation, please click on the Book a consultation icon on the home page, where you will be re-directed to schedule of available slots and can make a booking.
If you would like to volunteer/be a part of Dr Mohan’s future events and projects, please email us your resume , hopes and interests
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists are medical doctors. Following their MBBS, they train in General Psychiatry and complete their post-graduation. They train for a few years further in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry on a formal accredited Child and Adolescent Psychiatry rotation training programme and need to meet stringent sub-specialty requirements for full board accreditation.
Dr .Ramya Mohan, MBBS, FRCPsych (UK), MRC Psych(UK), CCST (Full Board-certification in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) is one of less than a handful of private super-specialists in India with full board-certification and extensive Consultant experience in the highly specialist, distinct sub-specialty of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Mohan’s holistic approach supports emotional management, resilience and personality development in children and young people, alongside supporting crucial systems around them (Like their families and schools).
For further information on what to be aware of, please read these articles from Dr Mohan :
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/health/health-advice/a561110/how-to-spot-the-signs-of-mental-health-problems-in-children/
https://closeronline.co.uk/real-life/news/worrying-rise-childhood-mental-illness/
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-ramya-mohan/academic-pressure-in-children_b_9806602.html
https://parentinfo.org/article/helping-your-child-cope-with-exam-stress
In 2015, Dr Ramya Mohan conceptualised and founded I MANAS London, an organisation created to promote the integration of Medicine, Creative Arts and Neuroscience for individual and community development. This is through focused East-West projects on global platforms, alongside promoting easy accessibility to highly specialist, up-to-date mental healthcare services. The ethos of I MANAS London is about ‘Achieving mental health creatively and without barriers’.
Exploring the way in which everyone can harness the mind and brain’s potential optimally, I MANAS London delivers its message and work through projects that bring Science, Medicine and the Arts together. I MANAS London supports the logical power of neuroscience (using up-to date, evidence-based research and clinical practice) and the therapeutic creativity and free expression of art. Ramya travels the world as an invited guest speaker to share her work, as the Founder and Medical Director of I MANAS London, as well as a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist.
I MANAS London’s Technology Head is Dr. Hosahalli Krishnamurthy Mohan ( Dr. H K Mohan) , MBBS, MD (Nuclear Medicine), FRCP (UK), MRCP ( UK) , MSc (Nuclear Medicine). Dr Mohan is a Marie Curie Award nominee , Senior Consultant in Nuclear Medicine and a key opinion leader in Thyroid Oncology , with over 20 years of cutting edge technology and medical expertise across continents ( Europe and Asia) behind him at leading tertiary centres of excellence. For details of Dr. H K Mohan’s work, please visit www.hosahallimohan.com .
I MANAS London prides itself on its innovative and dynamic ethos, ethics, high quality care and active projects across the medical research, clinical and the creative art domains across continents.
For details about i MANAS London and our work across the spheres of Medicine and Medicine –related Technology , Neuroscience , Psychiatry, Music, Art and Creativity , please visit www.imanaslondon.com
CAPE has been internationally acclaimed in various high profile world media including the Independent UK, BBC Arts and Culture, BBC Asian Network, The Huffington Post UK , The Times , India Today/Aaj Tak , NDTV, Deccan Herald amongst others. Young people who have been part of a pilot and benefitted from the technique are now coming forward to share their experiences. Young people have courageously come forward to talk about the impact CAPE has had on their emotional well-being and mental health. With the support of successful case histories, validation studies are currently being set up and an app will be launched over the next month to optimise accessibility and usefulness across the world. CAPE has supported awareness on a global platform about the significance and importance of creativity for mental health.
Following an international interest in CAPE, Ramya was invited by Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, Chairman of the AMAR International Charitable Foundation (Patron HRH The Prince of Wales) to talk about ‘The role of music and the creative arts in mental health and emotional well-being at The House of Lords, UK. She was invited by Prof The Baroness Hollins to present CAPE and her artwork on ‘Art and the human mind’ at the Mental Wealth Festival, London, in September 2016, which was very well-received. In December 2018, she was invited to the House of Commons to talk about its importance in women , children and families , pregnancy and beyond . CAPE has users across different continents today. For more details about CAPE and to access the CAPE app.
Dr Mohan’s clinic is fully self-funded. However, she is registered with most major insurers (AXA, Aviva, Cigna, Vitality etc) and her team is able to promptly provide a paid invoice on request. This paid invoice will enable you to claim back any policy entitlements due to you directly from your insurer. Any difference in charges between your agreed insurer amount and Dr Mohan’s fees would need to be borne by yourselves. We advise families and patients to check directly with their insurers with regards to policy entitlements, as certain specialist assessments and professional liaison meetings to support your child/young person may not always be covered by your policy.
Dr Mohan is trained in different evidence-based therapies like CBT, Mindfulness, EMDR (Trauma therapy). Whilst she is not able to offer direct regular therapeutic support owing to time constraints, she works closely with therapists and counsellors to ensure integrated, evidence-based holistic mental health care.
Dr Mohan requests for all prior relevant clinical correspondence to be shared with her ahead of the initial assessment. She takes a full and detailed history of the presenting difficulties, background and context. Based on need, she meets with the parents and the child/young person together and/or on their own. She assesses the mental state and presentation comprehensively and formulates a collaborative care plan with the child/young person and family.
It is possible that further specialist assessments, healthcare investigations, collateral/ multi-source information, resource provision and/or signposting may be required. Dr Mohan will work with the child/young person and family to ensure an optimally comprehensive, integrated approach to care.
Initial appointments include a detailed letter sent to your GP with an agreed care plan, a letter to you and a private prescription as needed.
ASD assessments are multi-disciplinary with a clinical psychologist as required and include electronic questionnaires (for teachers, parents and where appropriate, for young people), a detailed semi-structured, validated developmental assessment via videoconferencing (ADI-R or the 3Di), an in-person, semi-structured, validated assessment (ADOS) and a detailed Neurodiversity report.
ADHD assessments include electronic questionnaires (for teachers, parents and where appropriate, for young people), a detailed developmental history, an observational assessment, a QB test (where appropriate) and a detailed report.
ASD & ADHD assessments include multi-professional inputs, electronic questionnaires (for teachers, parents and where appropriate, for young people), a detailed developmental history (by videoconferencing), a QB Check (where appropriate), an in-person multidisciplinary structured ADOS assessment and observational ADHD assessment and a detailed report.
Dr Mohan’s clinic is completely paperless. We work with a highly secure electronic prescribing service who contact the family and arrange for delivery of the prescribed medication directly to your home at a time convenient for you.
Repeat/interim prescriptions carry a small nominal administrative charge. We request families to please write to us at secretary@imanaslondon.com and provide us with 5-7 working days’ notice to issue a repeat/interim prescription.
Please provide as much information as possible before your meeting with Dr Mohan. The more up-to-date she is, the more help she can provide . Please ensure you share all relevant clinical, educational and social care letters and reports before the initial assessment appointment to make the most of your appointment.
We will ask you to fill out a form before your consultation which will ask you the following questions:
* The reason you are seeking a psychiatrist’s advice.
* What you hope to achieve from seeing a psychiatrist.
* What, if any, previous CAMHS/ other clinical or professional inputs and support you have had. Please let us know what worked and what didn’t work?
* Does your child have an EHCP in place or documented additional needs( Autism, ADHD/ADD/Learning Difficulties/Learning Disabilities/specific difficulties with reading,writing,coordination etc)
* Are any other professionals currently working with your child? Please specify.
* What is your current family structure?
* Are there any previous diagnoses, (psychiatric and/or physical) that your child has had?
* Please mention family history of note, if any.
* Is your child currently on medication? Please provide details.
* Does your child have any allergies?
* Do you have parental responsibility for the referred child?
* Are there are any safeguarding or risk concerns that Dr Mohan should be aware of?