Hi, I'm Devika. This website is a home for the creative practices that have nurtured my spirit and guided my becoming. Doodles on the edges of graph paper as a teenager slowly became a practice larger than me, and so have these bodies of work which testify to all that can emerge from the simple willingness to meet the blank page.
It is no surprise to any of my loved ones that I now work in the capacity of a psychotherapist trained in art therapy. Over my career, my work has taken me from a digital therapy startup to an art-making pop-up to a psychiatry department at Kaiser — and now into schools, where I show up every day to support adolescents making sense of their lives.
I also have a longstanding love for improvisational comedy. I first stepped on stage in 2008 and have never looked back. My improvisational homes have included ComedySportz San Jose, Seattle University's D1 Improv, and Un-Scripted Theater in San Francisco, and I have delighted in performing in festivals such as Leela's Femproviser Fest and SF Sketchfest.