Clinical lineage and expertise, technology, and operations under one roof. A belief that expert care shouldn't be hard to find and should become aspirational
The Vision
A child's difficulties rarely sit in one neat box. A child with a developmental or behavioural difficulty may need speech therapy and occupational therapy and behavioural support and, sometimes, medication — and right now families are left to stitch these together themselves, across different clinics, different specialists, and different opinions. ICGC exists to close that gap: one clinically led team that looks at the whole child, not one piece of them.
Psychiatrists, therapists across speech, OT, and special education, and counsellors work as one team around each child — not as separate appointments that never talk to each other. Medical management, allied therapies, and behavioural and family support, under one clinically led roof.
Children don't do their best work in a cabin built for adults. Real progress needs the right room: sensory equipment, safe materials, space to move. ICGC centers are built specifically for this — not repurposed office space.
Digital intake, structured tracking, AI-assisted workflows — so a child's care stays personal and consistent from center to center, not just at the one a family happens to visit first.
That is what integrated care, the right space, and the right technology add up to: one team a family can lean on, for as long as it takes.
Our Roots
ICGC operates independently today, but its roots trace back to a 42-year-old psychiatric institution — and that origin still shapes how the clinic thinks about care.
1980s · Vijayawada
Indlas Hospitals foundedDr. Indla Ramasubba Reddy, trained at NIMHANS, established a psychiatric institution in Vijayawada. It grew into a group spanning inpatient care, de-addiction, and rehabilitation — treating tens of thousands of patients and families over four decades. He went on to lead the Indian Psychiatric Society and become the first Indian to head the SAARC Psychiatric Federation.
2000s · NIMHANS → Indlas
Completed his MD in Psychiatry at NIMHANS as gold medalist, then built his early career within the family institution, eventually becoming a director of Indlas Hospital and Indlas Shantivan, its psychiatric and rehabilitation centers.
2015 · Mumbai
Dr. Vishal branched out to build something more focused: integrated mental health care for children and adolescents. The first ICGC centres opened in Sakinaka, Mumbai and Vijayawada — purpose-built around child-safe spaces and a multidisciplinary team model.
2023 · Expanding
avika launched, network growsavika brought adult psychotherapy - VR-based exposure therapy and a technology platform alongside ICGC's child-focused model. The network expanded to 5 ICGC centers across Mumbai, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, and Visakhapatnam, plus multiple avika mind hubs in Hyderabad.
2026 · Today
ICGC and avika are consolidating into a single corporate entity — psychotherapy delivery across child and adult segments, backed by technology that keeps care personal at scale.
The Team
The best care happens when clinical depth, technology, and operational rigour stop working in silos. And that's what the team set out to do...
Advisor
Advisor
MD and DPM in psychiatry from NIMHANS. Past President of the Indian Psychiatric Society and the first Indian to head the SAARC Psychiatric Federation. Long before mental health awareness became mainstream, he travelled through small towns across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to reduce stigma, and wrote several books in Telugu to make these ideas accessible to families. As Advisor to ICGC, he continues to shape how seriously the clinic takes both clinical rigour and community outreach.
Founding team
Managing Director
MD in Psychiatry from NIMHANS, gold medalist. Twenty years in holistic mental health care. A practicing psychiatrist, author, teacher and orator — he keeps ICGC's direction grounded in real clinical practice rather than just strategy.
CEO
NIT Warangal. Over twenty years in IT, including building and exiting a Data & AI startup. She focuses on turning ICGC's clinical model into something that runs well operationally, end to end.
CTO
NIT Trichy. Twenty-five years in data and analytics, including the same Data & AI startup exit alongside Sirisha. He leads ICGC's technology — from systems that run the clinics to platforms that make care more personal at scale.
Medical Director
MBBS, DNB (Psychiatry), Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Over a decade in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. Has run more than one profitable child guidance centre with a focus on holistic neurodevelopmental and psychotherapy care.
Our stars on the ground
Beyond the founding team, ICGC runs on its city-based clinical teams: the psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, special educators, and counsellors a family actually meets, session after session. Each centre operates under the same clinical standards and the same integrated model.
