About
Twenty-five years in the same town.
Manas Psychological Health Centre & Nursing Home has treated mental illness in Dombivli East for a quarter of a century — long enough that people who came as patients now bring their own children.
What the centre sets out to do
“We provide comprehensive and individualised psychological, educational and behavioural services to children and their families. We are committed to the highest standards of excellence and ethical practice.”
Alongside that work with children and families, the centre treats the full range of adult psychiatric illness — including the severe end of it, which many outpatient clinics cannot take on. That is what the nursing home is for.
The goal
“To enhance the lives of individuals by providing services that combine proven, long-established techniques with new and innovative approaches.”
In one place
- ▸ Consultant psychiatry and medical treatment
- ▸ Psychotherapy and counselling
- ▸ An inpatient nursing home
- ▸ EEG, ECG and psychological testing
- ▸ Modified ECT, under anaesthesia, on the premises
- ▸ Peer and carer support groups
- ▸ Links to rehabilitation and a half-way home
Most people with a serious mental illness are otherwise sent between four or five different places for these. Having them together is the practical argument for a centre like this one.
Manodaya Trust, Dombivli
Working in the field of mental health
The trust does the part that treatment cannot: changing what a town believes about mental illness. It runs Palakshala for parents, Janeev for public awareness, stress management for schools and workplaces, and the peer groups that people join long after their treatment has ended.
In 2026, its twenty-fifth year, it established the Unnat Manas Sanman Puraskar — an award for people living with or recovering from brain-and-mind disorders, and for those working alongside them. The first ceremony was held in Dombivli with psychiatrist and Ramon Magsaysay Awardee Dr. Bharat Vatwani as chief guest.
What the trust runs →Talking about it in public
Dr. Padhye has spent years explaining mental illness on record — in Marathi, at length, and without the euphemism the subject usually attracts. The centre’s channel, Manas Chitra, holds well over a hundred films, talks and conversations, all of them free to watch.
Speak to us
Appointments are by telephone. If you are not sure whether this is the right place to bring someone, ring and ask — that is a reasonable question and we would rather you asked it.
Manas Psychological Health Centre, Ramnagar, Dombivli (East), Maharashtra 421 201