Welcome
to the creative-clinical home of
Neha Bhat
ABT, ATR-P
Indian Sex Therapist
Face the taboo. Love more fully. Be truthful.
Neha Bhat (ABT, ATR-P) is one of India’s pioneering, internationally trained, queer, depth-oriented arts-based psychotherapists specialising in sexual trauma, sexuality and relational healing.
Trained across India and the United States, Neha holds postgraduate training in Buddhist-based Expressive Arts Therapy and a Master’s in Art Therapy and Counseling, alongside advanced clinical training in sexual-assault and trauma care.
She is the Founder-Director of Sacred Resilience®, bestselling author of Unashamed: Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist, clinical supervisor, somatic practitioner and expressive artist.
recognition
Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, actor
“I applaud Neha Bhat for writing Unashamed- Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist (HarperCollins India), a unique book that combines self-help and psycho-education.
Despite a dedicated effort over the last decade to produce much needed advancements in trauma & related issues, many individuals in our society are still uninformed or distressed.”
Ms. Sushmita Sen, actor & former Ms Universe
“Untangled – Transform your Patterns of Messy Love (HarperCollins India) is an honest guide to changing our patterns without ever giving up on love.”
Releasing 2027
upcoming
Sound of the goddess
5th Nov 2026 | Bengaluru, India
3:30pm – 5:30pm
Immerse in sacred psychology & meditation with Neha and Nina Rao — international chantress and longtime musical collaborator of Krishna Das
pleasure as practice : india src retreat
4th-7th Dec 2026 | Goa, India
3.5 days with luxury accommodation
Explore pleasure as a practice of embodiment and relational aliveness, cultivating deeper relationships with self and others.
erotic intelligence : SRc masterclass
Jan 17th 2027 | Online
2.5 hours of teaching by Neha Bhat
2.5 hours of teaching and guided reflection to build a practical erotic vocabulary and bring greater sensuality, presence and connection into everyday life.
how to work with neha deeply
Neha’s long-term 1:1 psychotherapy practice remains fully booked.
And, there are many other ways to work together. Whether you are moving through a personal threshold, seeking greater intimacy, training as a healer, or entering a period of creative and relational transformation, choose the doorway that meets you where you are.
choose your doorway
1:1 Master consultation sessions
Deep, intensive 1:1 guidance for those ready to work with what has remained difficult to name, untangle or address elsewhere. Available by request.
Online
somatic art therapy retreats
Brave community spaces, held digitally and in person, where expressive arts, sex therapy, taboo conversations and soul work come together.
In-Person
in-depth trainings
Join from anywhere in the world. Selection upon interview.
A certified sexual-trauma training journey for healers-in-training, coaches, psychotherapists and alternative wellness practitioners—beginning with intensive training from May–August annually, followed by integration and supervision for the next 4 months.
Our practitioners have been based in India, the US, Mexico, Malaysia, the UK and Singapore, and practice globally.
Online & Optional In-Person Closure (Hybrid Model)
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This home is where you’ll find the multiverse of
Neha Bhat’s work,
where psychotherapy meets art, spirituality, sexuality and culture, in conscious relationship with what is existentially sacred to humanity.
Neha is the founder of Sacred Resilience®, her signature sex-psychotherapy practice and global healers’ collective, through which she brings together sexual-trauma psychotherapy, expressive arts, somatic practice, relational work and psychospiritual inquiry.
Across 15+ years of practice in India and the United States, Neha’s clinical trajectory has spanned schools and prisons, rape-crisis and sexual-assault care, universities, sex and couples psychotherapy, legal and carceral systems, and film and television.
15+ years across…
SEXUAL TRAUMA CARE
University of Michigan · Rush Medical Center
VISUAL ARTS THERAPY
Art Institute of Chicago
INDIA TEACHING & TRAINING
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
SEXUAL HEALTH POLICY
Title IX / higher education
MEDIA
Film · television · sexual trauma scriptwriting
Moving between the clinical, creative and psychospiritual, Neha also consults on films, documentaries and reality television addressing sex, intimacy and complex mental-health themes, including projects across Amazon Prime, Netflix US and Lionsgate Play.
Somatic · Psychospiritual · Creative · Practical Decolonial Healing – the way of the future
Neha is the recipient of the UN Laadli Author Award for her bestselling book, Unashamed: Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist, Vogue Best Author Award for Unashamed and a second UN Laadli Award for Gender-Sensitive Media Representation through her Healing from Sexual Trauma Masterclass.
a central question
Across her clinical career, Neha has worked with more than 5,000 individuals, couples, families, groups and organisations, with particular depth in sexual violence, intimacy, relational trauma and the cultural life of the Indian psyche.
At the heart of Neha’s work is a central question:
how can trauma, particularly sexual and relational trauma be met through depth, creativity and the body, opening pathways towards creative, embodied power?
Her internationally exhibited artwork, exploring the body, identity and liberation, has carried this same inquiry into the visual realm.
Her bestselling debut, Unashamed: Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist, carried it into the public realm, travelling across 17 cities in India and the US. The book tour created accessible spaces for intimate, taboo-breaking conversations around sexuality, shame and healing in coffee shops, bookstores, literature and music festivals, art cafes and more.
sacred resilience
Over time, this central question became more than an inquiry. It began to take the shape of a healing philosophy.
Neha has never been particularly interested in binary answers to human suffering and aspiration. Clinical or spiritual. Psychological or embodied. Evidence or intuition. Individual or relational. Eastern or Western. She is interested in what becomes possible when seemingly opposing ways of knowing are allowed to meet.
And over fifteen years, those ways of knowing gradually converged into something larger as a living philosophy. What began across therapy rooms, classrooms and creative spaces eventually grew beyond them.
And this, right here, is
Sacred Resilience®
Neha Bhat’s Signature
Sex Psychotherapy Practice &
Global Healers’ Collective
Somatic · Psychospiritual · Expressive Arts · Decolonial
Sacred Resilience® is both, an expanding body of therapeutic work and a global collective of healers trained in Neha’s sexual-trauma healing model.
Rooted in clinical rigour and shaped by rape-crisis care, institutional trauma work, sex and couples psychotherapy, expressive arts and psychospiritual inquiry, it is a healing methodology which explores what becomes possible when psychotherapy, creativity, embodiment and the sacred are allowed to speak to one another—particularly within the global Indian context.
Through her books, lectures and social media writing, Neha brings accessible tools for inner work, sexuality and relational healing as Sacred Resilience to a community of more than 100,000 seekers across the world.
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WATCH
Fresh conversations, interviews and teachings from Neha in English on Neha’s YouTube channel, with a separate collection of Hindi conversations and teachings
Face the taboo. Love more fully. Be more truthful.
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