Anoo Bhalay

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Anoo Bhalay

Fellow’s Profile

Anoo Bhalay

Suicide intervention: British Punjabi Sikh women - a Holistic approach

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Focus

Providing targeted holistic therapies to South Asian women as part of suicide intervention

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Fellowship year

2023

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Locality

East Midlands

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Biography

I am a holistic therapist specialising in healing bodywork therapies and I also work in the education sector as a teacher cover supervisor, supporting young people and teaching staff.

My Fellowship addresses the prevalence of suicide ideation from women of diaspora Punjabi, Sikh communities and the lack of targeted therapies in the UK for intervention and prevention within this community. The purpose of my Fellowship is to identify, develop and apply a range of therapies beneficial for ethnic minority women in managing suicide ideation and respective emotional health issues.

As a Punjabi, Sikh woman, I have lifelong experience of interactions with Punjabi women and girls and immediate family members who have displayed actions of suicidal ideation and have died by suicide. Additionally, my professional experience of interacting with diaspora Sikh women and girls has highlighted how suicide ideation has a cultural relevance and dominance within our communities. Through my Fellowship, I hope to achieve clarity on the impact of ideation, the creation of new networks for the provision of therapies and community interactions to develop self-healing techniques.

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