Our Team

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Amit Karekar

Founder & Counselor, Turning Point

Amit Karekar – Founder & Counselor, Turning Point Often the brightest light is found beyond the darkest tunnel. Our founder, Amit’s story is a testimony to this saying. With sheer belief in humanity and ‘live and let live’ ideology, he has established Turning Point Rehab to be a safe haven for all the souls who

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Abitha Karekar

Co-founder & Family Counselor, Turning Point

Abitha Karekar – Co-founder & Family Counselor, Turning Point When people quote that behind every successful man there stands a lady, they unknowingly refer Abitha. She has been the backbone and a guiding light to Amit, throughout his addiction recovery. Today, Abitha wears many hats; despite holding a Bachelor’s degree in Banking, she is an

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Bimal Tamakuwala

Psychiatrist, Turning Point

Dr. Bimal Tamakuwala M.D.(Psychiatry) is well known Psychiatrist of Surat. He has vast experience in the field of Mental Health, particularly in Deaddiction Psychiatry. He has worked for 10 years at SMIMER Medical college as Assistant Professor in Department of Psychiatry. He is currently doing private practice since 05 years. He believes holistic approach of

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Sai Sawant

Executive Director, Turning Point

Sai as our team leader, is all about impact, influence and inspiration. His years of experience in working at rehabilitations impacts our results, influences our passion to work harder, and inspires the team to stick together and follow the programs. His erudite know-how of various therapies and techniques help us achieve optimum results. Just like

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Suresh N. Patel

Program Director, Turning Point

With sixteen years of industry experience to back his disposition, Suresh’s calm and composed stance never fails to inspire anyone. His unshakeable temperament makes him a great listener, counselor and a life coach. He takes immense pleasure in reading and comprehending about people and their behaviours and tend to explore spiritual aspects of things. This

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Elizabeth

Psychologist, Turning Point

As a psychologist, Elizabeth heartily helps addicts realize that it is only their mental blocks that are keeping them down and that only they can set themselves free. She helps them in confronting their fears and turning these mental blocks into building blocks. One has to experience the effect of her words, first-handily, to believe

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Ajay Girkar

Administrative Head, Turning Point

Ajay is the mother hen of Turning Point’s family. He takes care of everyone, be it the inmates, the staff as well as the visitors, with equal love and care. His generosity and considerate nature is what makes him the sworn caretaker and the pillar of our centre. Under his shade, even when the staff

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Bunny Basoor

Operations Coordinator, Turning Point

Bunny just as his names suggests – is energetic and lively like a rabbit. Bunny takes care of all the errands required for the centre to function smoothly. He often gives a hand to the staff undertaking therapy sessions. Nobody at our centre needs an alarm or a reminder for our joblist as long as

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Kunal Vernekar

Executive Administration / Yoga & Meditation Therapist, Turning Point

Kunal has a natural inclination towards spirituality and takes great interest in understanding the energies, their vibrations and their impact on spaces and people, which are unseen to the human eyes. This offbeat nature of his interest, drives his passion in performing yoga, meditation and fine arts, to go deeper. He is a trained and

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Harish Vasava

Kitchen Assistant, Turning Point

The youngest one on the block, Harish is a great example of someone who decides to fight all odds of life and swim against the tide to achieve what one wants from life. With no financial back up from his family, Harish has decided to work, earn, study and set himself up for greater goals