My story

I was in therapy for 10+ years, live with multiple mental illnesses, and for the longest time nothing worked. Today I work with people like me, so they don't feel stuck and blocked by life the way I did.

My first panic attack put me in an emergency room. I didn't know a body could do that. A few years later, three a day was my normal. Ten to fifteen minutes of hyperventilating, cold hands and feet, the room slowly going dim.

I did all types of tests and all my reports were normal. Doctors would say it's in my head, because the tests were normal.

My legs ached constantly. I wore compression socks under everything, every single day, no matter how I dressed on top. A ten-minute walk took me thirty. I saw orthopaedists and took every test they offered. Nothing. Chronic migraines. Constant nausea. A resting heart rate of 110. More specialists, more scans, more reports that came back clean. There were harder things too, things I'll write about someday when I am ready.

On the career front, I was more than fine. I'd grown my salary from ₹18,500 a month to a 30 LPA role. From the outside: capable, composed, high-functioning. But I was miserable. I hated everything about me and punished myself for it.

Why I do this work

Somatic work is what finally worked for me. I found a trauma-informed therapist, paid more than I could afford, and barely spoke about my feelings or memories. All we did was body work, and just like that, years of pain and misery started disappearing.

Today my resting heart rate is 70. The compression socks come out once or twice a month, not every single day. I don't remember my last panic attack. I used to have three a day.

Ten years of therapy gave me insight. But my body said your insight is not cutting it. It needed to be worked with directly, not just talked about.

Once I saw the power of this work, I could not unsee it. So in whatever capacity I could, I trained, got certified, and made it my work.

Who I work with

Before coaching, I managed 80+ women across my corporate career. Every single one of them, no matter how good she was at her job, undervalued herself daily. Doubted decisions she was fully qualified to make. Could talk for an hour about everyone's work except her own. I watched it for years before I understood I was watching my own pattern from the outside.

That's who I work with. Women who are excellent on paper and cannot feel any of it. It is time for that to change.

What I believe

You are not broken, and I'm not here to fix you. Every behaviour and coping mechanism you carry was built to protect you from something that once needed protecting from. Together we look at whether those protections still serve you. And if they don't, what happens next.

I live in Bengaluru. I embroider, and read fiction about women with complicated inner lives. Every week I record one somatic practice on YouTube, so you can practice with me before you ever talk to me.

ICF ACC Credentialed Coach

Lived experience alone is not enough. So I am always building real qualifications to show up the best way for my clients.

• Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation
• Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies, Trauma Research Foundation (in progress)
• EMDR Advanced Trauma Training (in progress)
• EFT/TFT Master Practitioner
• Psychological First Aid, Johns Hopkins University