Infiheal at the University of York Mumbai: A Room Full of Questions, Curiosity and Conversation
Infiheal was invited to The University of York Mumbai for an orientation session attended by over 100 students, led by Archie Mutta, Counselling Psychologist and Head of Partnerships at Infiheal. What was planned as an orientation turned into something richer: a room full of genuine curiosity, candid questions, and conversations about mental health that went well beyond the surface.
How the Session Unfolded
The session was designed to bring mental health awareness to life through experience rather than instruction. It opened with an art-based psychological reflection exercise, a format that consistently does something a presentation cannot: it shifts the energy in a room. When people are invited to create rather than simply listen, something changes. Defences lower, curiosity comes forward, and the conversation that follows tends to be more honest and more personal.
That is exactly what happened. What began as a creative self-reflection exercise unfolded into a deeper exchange around self-perception, emotional patterns, coping mechanisms, the role of therapy, and how we make sense of our inner lives. The students' questions were perceptive, candid, and reflective of a genuine desire to understand mental health not as a clinical category but as something directly relevant to how they experience themselves and the people around them.
A Generation That Is Ready to Talk
What stood out most was the quality of engagement in the room. Over 100 students, many of them at the beginning of a new academic chapter, chose to show up with openness rather than guardedness, with questions rather than assumptions. That is not something that can be forced or scripted. It reflects a generation that is, in many ways, more ready to have honest conversations about mental health than any that came before them, and more impatient with the kind of surface-level awareness that does not actually help anyone do anything differently.
Their curiosity naturally extended to Healo: how an accessible and affordable AI mental health companion can become a genuine part of someone's wellbeing journey, offer a space to engage with emotions at their own pace, and make it easier to seek support when it is needed, or to share that support with someone else who may need it. For students navigating the pressures of university life, new environments, academic demands, and the social transitions that come with them, having something accessible, stigma-free, and available at any time is not a luxury. It is a practical necessity.
Why University Spaces Matter
University orientation is one of the most important transition points in a young person's life. It is also one of the moments when mental health support is least visible and most needed. Students arrive carrying a wide range of experiences, expectations, and uncertainties. Creating a dedicated space for mental health conversations at that exact moment, not as an afterthought but as part of how a university welcomes its students, sends a message that wellbeing is part of the education, not separate from it.
Infiheal is grateful to Ms Amrita Sadarangani and Abhishek Singh for organising the session and for inviting Infiheal to be part of it. The thoughtfulness with which it was set up, with openness, curiosity, and psychology genuinely at the centre, made all the difference to what the room became.
Some of the most meaningful conversations begin with a simple question. Infiheal looks forward to taking many more of them into university spaces, and every other space where they matter.
