The Richmond Fellowship Society (RFS), Bangalore started the Richmond Fellowship Post Graduate College for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (RF PG) in the year 1999. The college offered a M.Sc. in Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Counseling, recognized by the Government of Karnataka and the Rehabilitation Council of India and affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences. The College had a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, (NIMHANS) Bangalore.

The M Sc. Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) course was designed for acquisition of skills through practical hands-on training including essential counseling skills required by a mental health practitioner. As part of their curriculum, the students were exposed to research practices in the form of a dissertation in the II year on relevant topics in the field of mental health.

Richmond Fellowship (RF) was founded in 1959 by Elly Jansen. A young theology student from Holland, taking advantage of the first Mental Health Act, she invited patients from Long Grove Hospital to leave and live with her in the community in Richmond, Surrey. This core founding belief in the concept of recovery has been the guiding light throughout our journey to the present day. She bought a house in Richmond, London, and invited patients from the local psychiatric hospital to live with her. She ran the house based on the ethos of a therapeutic community, with the aim of reintegrating people back into the local community despite long periods of time in hospital.