Meetali Devgun is a registered clinical psychologist and researcher with over nine years of experience in clinical research and mental health advocacy settings in Delhi and Bengaluru. She completed her Ph.D. from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Karnataka. Using predominantly qualitative methods, she explored awareness, understanding and prevalent beliefs about the phenomenon of child sexual abuse (CSA) and the perceived barriers to its disclosure in the urban adolescent population. She was one of the first doctoral scholars to design and execute a study of this nature at her institute. She disseminated findings from her research through academic publications, invited talks and capacity-building training programs for professionals. She was awarded the Early Career Researcher-India status in 2019 by the Northeast England South Asia Mental Health Alliance (NEESAMA).

She completed her clinical training (M.Phil. Clinical Psychology) at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), Delhi. She has extensive experience in working with individuals across age cohorts with a range of mental health issues or concerns. Her therapeutic approach is eclectic and integrates commonalities across therapeutic schools, predominantly humanistic, psychodynamic, and attachment thought. Her practice is trauma-informed and combines evidence-based science with an understanding that systemic oppression intersects with individual identities and significantly contributes to psychological distress. During her Ph.D., she specialized in working with children, adolescents, young adults and parents. She frequently worked with children from adverse backgrounds. As a doctoral scholar, she assisted a central government agency under the directive of the Supreme Court of India in gathering evidence from a marginalized group of children suspected to have been maltreated and abused and aided another group of child victims of institutional sexual abuse as a support person in the court during the trial proceedings. She taught and clinically supervised resident clinical psychology and psychiatry trainees and undergraduate nursing sciences students at NIMHANS. Post Ph.D., she worked with SAMVAD (Support, Advocacy & Mental health interventions for children in Vulnerable circumstances And Distress), which is a national initiative & integrated resource for child protection, mental health and psychosocial care located in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NIMHANS. She designed and executed a research project to develop a comprehensive awareness module addressing the issues of safety and decision-making in urban adolescents. She collaborated with SAMVAD to develop and implement the country’s first capacity-building program on child sexual abuse forensics for mental health professionals across the country. She has facilitated capacity-building training programs for professionals across disciplines of child protection, education, and the judiciary. Currently, she has her private practice as a clinical psychologist and collaborates with other independent practitioners to develop training material for mental health professionals.