Prabha was born in Philadelphia, PA, and moved to San Francisco in 1975 after graduating from Temple University. She earned a Bachelors degree in Social Welfare as she had a great passion for working with children and families in poverty.

Prabha worked for a number of years as a paralegal in various law offices to pay the bills as well as to consider becoming an attorney, with an eye towards social justice. After her experiences with lawyers she decided this was not her milieu. She went back to school to earn an elementary teaching credential. She then taught for ten years in the San Francisco Unified School District. She particularly loved working with young children, as they are honest and genuinely funny. Throughout her tenure as a teacher, she intentionally created a community in her classroom, by teaching the children how to express their feelings and how to show empathy. During her last years with the school district, she developed a program for teaching a nonviolence curriculum.

At Western Institute for Social Research in Berkeley Prabha earned a Masters Degree in Psychology. She worked in various agencies throughout the Bay Area, including Pacifica and West Oakland. Her skills and talents as a teacher coalesced with helping to implement a program for children with serious mood and behavior dysregulation in the classroom, in which she provided individual and family therapy. She ultimately launched her own private practice in San Francisco. Prabha continues to be a steadfast advocate for the needs and rights of children, and in particular, to aid them and their parents in working through trauma.

Prabha has been married to Seth Mausner, a San Francisco Symphony violist, for twenty years. They both love to hike in beautiful places, and are animal lovers, as they share their home with two dogs and two bunnies.