About
Dr Shivadev M
Psychiatrist and Sexual Medicine Specialist. Founder, Unspoken Health.
I trained first in Psychiatry, then in Sexual Medicine, because I kept meeting patients whose mental health, sexual health and relationships were tangled together, and who had been passed between specialists without anyone looking at the whole picture.
Unspoken Health is built on a simple idea: people should be able to bring the things they find hardest to say to one doctor, be taken seriously, and get properly measured, evidence-based treatment.
Qualifications and experience
Training
- MBBSJJM Medical College, Davanagere
- MD, PsychiatryKasturba Medical College, Mangalore
- FECSMFellow of the European Committee for Sexual Medicine
- RegistrationKarnataka Medical Council, Reg. No. 74840
- Integrative oncologyWorked with oncologists at HCG as part of an integrative oncology team, supporting the mental and sexual health of people with cancer
- PracticeCo-founded PassionFruit in Koramangala, Bengaluru, where I currently consult
Memberships
Professional bodies
- FellowEuropean Committee for Sexual Medicine (FECSM)
- Life FellowIndian Psychiatric Society
- Life MemberInternational Association of Sexual Medicine Practitioners, Modern Medicine (IASMP-MM)
Teaching and speaking
Conferences and webinars
- Performance anxiety in erectile dysfunctionFaculty, IASMP-MM conference, Goa, 2025
- Mind over matter: psychosexual management of premature ejaculationFaculty, IASMP-MM conference, Lucknow, 2026
- Why have sex?Faculty, International Conference on Sexuality & Sexual Health (Updates 2016), with FOGSI, Mumbai, 2016
- Psychotropic drugs and PDE5 inhibitorsViagra Night academic webinar
- The gut–brain axis and its importance in sexual and mental healthAcademic webinar, in collaboration with Microbiotix
- Pregnancy and sexual healthQ&A with Dr Natesh Prabhu, Sexual Wellness Conclave, 2024
Media and public education
Podcasts, TV and outreach
- Rebooting the BrainPodcast, 2025
- DocCirclePodcast, 2021–2022
- MedicirclePodcast, 2021
- Corona CarePatient education on mental health during COVID-19, 2020
- TV9Talk shows on relationships, suicide and mental health, and cults and spirituality
Research
Academic work
- Patterns and prevalence of substance use in young adultsMD thesis, 2010
- Exacerbation of psychiatric illness in patients with chikungunya feverCase series, 2009
Book a consultation with Dr Shivadev M
You don't need the right words. Say what you can at the first visit, and we'll work out the rest together.