Bornali Basu is a licensed psychologist with a psychotherapy practice in New York focused on compassion and mindfulness based approaches to cultivating joy. She is an adjunct assistant professor for the clinical psychology program at Columbia University, Teachers College. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, her M.A. from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Derner Institute at Adelphi University.

She completed her internship and a post-doctoral fellowship in cardiac psychology at the NYU School of Medicine. Previously, she was on the clinical faculty at the NYU School of Medicine, and was a senior staff psychologist at Bellevue Hospital where she founded, and was the Director of the Mind-Body Program. As a certified instructor of CCT, Bornali looks forward to helping healthcare professionals and students develop resilience and wellbeing through compassion.