Our story
It started as a question, not a clinic.
Dipti spent more than nine years in product management before training in counselling, coaching and career counselling. When she started KnowThyWithin in June 2023, she began the way a product person would: by listening first. By January 2024, KTW was a registered company.
User interviews, surveys, a close look at what already existed. One pattern kept coming up. Most people don’t start with therapy. They start by talking, and there are very few places where that feels safe, normal and unhurried.
Experts and workshops came first, in 2024. Then, from April 2025, KTW grew community-first. Not everyone has the time, the people or the comfort to open up one-on-one, but in a group, when one person speaks up, others often find their voice too. So we built Circles and interactive events: safe spaces to share, listen and come back to, with psychologists, counsellors and coaches close by for anyone who wants one-on-one support.
“In India, most of us still don’t talk about how we feel. I believe community is where that starts to change. KTW is that community.”
June 2023
KnowThyWithin begins in Bengaluru
Founder-led and self-funded. The first months go into listening: user research, surveys and small experiments.
January 2024
Registered as a company
KnowThyWithin becomes a registered company.
May – December 2024
Our first expert, workshop and retreat
Our first expert joins on 1 May, and knowthywithin.com goes live the same month. On 28 June we run our first workshop, on stress management for a workplace team. On 15 December comes our first retreat. By the end of the year, around 9 experts from across India have joined us.
April 2025
Community events begin
From 1 April, events where people come together to talk, reflect and listen.
Dec 2025 – Feb 2026
Rooms start filling
Habit Formation, Personal Roadmap, Vision Board, Parent and Couples conversations, and the first Pet Parent Talk Circle.
2026
The Paw Circle, workplaces and a retreat
Our first ongoing Circle for pet parents, two workplace programmes, a women’s retreat in Hyderabad and a psychologist meet in Bengaluru.
Now
From one-off events to spaces that last
More Circles, and longer partnerships with workplaces, campuses and the pet-care world.
Pushyapradipti (Dipti) Y
Jefflin Haris Rodha
Prachi Tiwari
Vanita Dua
