About The President

Mrs. Ashwini Nerlikar has accomplished MSW (Medical & Psychiatry) & has more than 20 years of experience in the field of Emotional & Behavioural Counselling,Training,Awareness. She has started journey of her career with Lokmanya Hospitals. She is a Transactional Analyst and is a certified TA & REBT trainer. She is an active social worker & President at the NGO, Fortitude Counseling Centre & Research Organisation. Mrs. Ashwini with her team has conducted workshops on TA, REBT, CBT & other areas of skill development for various corporates like ThyssenKrupp, Steria India Foundation, Reliance Jio state, She has been a part of various CSR activities & Member of Internal Complaints Committee at Imeco Machines Pvt.Ltd, CSS Pvt. Ltd. Mrs. Ashwini is also a selected candidate for community mental health course to be conducted by NIMHANS (National Institute Of Mental Health & Neurosciences) Digital Academy, Bengaluru.

What Made her to Start this Organisation?

She is passionate about contributing to people to unfold their highest potential and inspire joyful living. This encouraged her to establish a Fortitude Counselling Centre. She has been working whole heartedly in the field of Counselling and Psychotherapy. She got introduced to Transactional Analysis, REBT around 10 years ago. The systematic and caring approach of various psychotherapies led her to go deeper in the discipline.

An incident of her mother’s demise made her family psychologically so disturbed which made her realized the fact that there’s still a tremendous need for awareness in the area of emotional well-being. This made her take a break from her job and start something which will add a change in the thought process of people and make people around them aware, who are in distress.

What Does Fortitude Mean?

The meaning of Fortitude is courage in pain. Fortitude as a name helps encourage people to be emotionally balanced & have courage during the phase of distress. Improving Mental Wellness and Well Being, is what we work towards.