Face the taboo. Love more fully. Be truthful.
Welcome
to the home of
Indian Sex Therapist
One of India’s only
depth-oriented,
arts-based, sexual trauma
focused psychotherapists!
This, right here, is
Sacred Resilience®
Neha Bhat’s Signature
Sex Psychotherapy Practice
guiding you to sexual-emotional wellness from a creative healing lens
Neha’s 2026 Healer’s Training Waitlist is now Open! Keep an eye out for Neha’s second book out in 2026
Neha Bhat (ABT, ATR-P) is a Licensed Arts-based Sexual Trauma Psychotherapist • Bestselling Author • Visual Artist • Entrepreneurial Coach & Creator of India’s first Global Sexual Trauma Healer’s Collective.
Get in Touch with neha
for a project
neha no longer sees new 1:1 therapy clients, however there are some openings for one-time consultations (please see below).
Her current focus is on training, teaching, writing, and leading community retreat spaces where trauma alchemizes into
creative power.
In the images above, Neha stands with the Vogue Best Author Award, the UN Laadli Author Award for her book, Unashamed – Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist and the second UN Laadli Award for Gender-sensitive Media Representation for her Healing from Sexual Trauma Masterclass.
Below, she signs her book which toured 17 cities creating conscious Unashamed spaces for taboo conversations in India and across the world.
This practice, Sacred Resilience is home to Neha’s evolving body of visionary healing work offered through:
- her art psychotherapy tools,
- immersive masterclasses,
- retreats,
- psycho-spiritual writing & art designed to help heal what silence, shame, and survival once buried.
This site is also home to India’s first, Global Collective of multicultural, psycho-spiritual, Sexual Trauma-informed Healers, trained in Neha’s unique method and guided & supervised by her through the year.
the work so far
With 15+ years of global experience from serving as an arts therapist in the schools and prison systems in both India and the US, to Title IX policy work in higher education and intimacy consultancy in Hollywood & Bollywood, Neha helps transform trauma, especially sexual trauma into creative, embodied power.
Neha has specialized in sexual assault trauma care through clinical practice at the University of Michigan, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rush Medical Center, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, where she also teaches part-time.
Her artwork on the body and its liberation has been exhibited in several galleries across the world, and her psychotherapy writing, alongwith snippets from her books are shared regularly on social media as @indiansextherapist.
Neha’s unique practice stands at the intersection of depth-oriented psychology, expressive arts, sexuality, and mysticism.
Through Sacred Resilience®, she is creating a global language for sexual trauma healing; one that treats creativity as medicine, the body as an oracle, and relationships as portals of awakening.
Her work is rooted in India’s spiritual traditions, Western depth therapy, and a decolonial understanding of trauma.
It reminds us that healing can be both sacred and fiercely practical.
What Neha Offers
Master consultation sessions
Needs-specific, intensive 1:1 consultations with Neha directly for highly-aligned individuals, couples, families & organizations in need of guidance. Please click below to apply.
global masterclasses, retreats & workshops
brave community spaces held digitally and in-person that blend expressive arts, sex therapy, deep, taboo topics and soul work
sexual-trauma Training for Healers, Therapists & Coaches & wellness professionals
4-month long, certified sexual-trauma training, held each year between May and August (digital + in-person hybrid model).
You can join from anywhere in the world. Our students have trained from India, the US, Mexico, Malaysia, the UK and Singapore and practice globally.
Praise for the work:
Where can I keep finding more of Neha’s work?
- Watch Neha’s Interviews in English fresh-off-the-press here on Neha’s YouTube Channel.
- To help create more trauma-sensitive media, Neha consults on films, documentaries and reality TV shows about sex and intimacy across various OTT platforms including Amazon Prime, Netflix US and Lionsgate Play.
- More on Neha Bhat’s Hindi YouTube Playlist.
Please note that Neha Bhat’s practice remains full.
Our waitlists are also full.
For the near future, Neha is focusing on public education, clinical training and writing so that sex therapy tools can be accessible to a larger audience worldwide.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is THERAPY?
Why is it important that we understand trauma?
Trauma work is a form of self-knowledge. You do not have to have something “wrong” with you to access deeper ways of self-knowledge. Everyone, at some point needs to look beneath life’s surface to understand themselves better, which then often leads to a more easeful understanding of life, and its various joys and challenges.
People often choose to work a depth-focused therapist, to find pathways of empowerment and clarity for themselves, at difficult or traumatic crossroads of their lives, especially in connection with their sexuality to make choices that feel meaningful to them in their specific cultural and social circumstances. I see sexual health as part of mental, emotional and spiritual health.
There may be times in our lives when the advice we get from our friends/families doesn’t help our specific situation.
There may be unresolved aspects of our past that are too deep for our friends to understand, and this may impact the types of friends, employees, wives, husbands, daughters or employers we become.
Trauma lives everywhere until it is allowed to be named. Trauma therapy is a wonderful option that can help bring clarity, insight and discernment into your specific ways of navigating the world.
If you’re struggling with issues around sexuality, relationships or interpersonal violence, and you’re ready for insight-oriented inner work, therapy might prove beneficial to you.
2. I can’t access therapy due to my circumstances.
How do I proceed?
Please explore this website and the instagram account (@indiansextherapist) which is an offering of this practice to provide free psycho-education about mental health and trauma work online. Please don’t let the lack of therapy access stop you from going deeper within yourself for healing, and as a professional who practices across multiple cultures, I encourage accessing healing tools that are local and contextually appropriate to you!
I want to learn about how arts and spirituality intersect.
Why do the Arts and Spirituality intersect for me?
“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch another soul, be just a soul.”
– Carl Jung
I’ve always been a bit of an esoteric-minded person who found mysticism, service and spirituality to be truer and more real as compared to the ideals of mainstream South Indian society at the time when I was a teenager. As a young person, I found myself to be studious and deeply curious, but school academics rather simplistic and outdated. Decoloniality was not a popular concept back then, so I didn’t have the vocabulary to make sense of my detachment. By the age of 15, watching nature, reading consciousness literature, connecting to mystical energies like Jiddu Krishnamurti, Shirdi Sai Baba and Meher Baba had become “normal” for me. A career in the mainstream professions was not an option in my mind. I was called to be service-oriented and a spiritual depth opened inside when I accepted that voice.
People’s unique spiritualities are invited within my therapy room, my classes and larger therapy practice, since trauma, nature, spirituality and wellness are all interconnected in my worldview.I believe that both inner and outer work are essential for wellbeing. Here’s a bit more about this work in the media.
I want to read Neha’s deeper psychotherapy writing insights
My deeper, depth-psychology writing on everyday life matters here
I believe writing is a truth-telling practice. Coupled with intention and awareness, it can bring light to our subconscious needs and even channel steps ahead when we are stuck in specific areas of our lives.
How can I contribute to this mission?
If you have benefitted from this work, please consider donating to our low-income therapy fund for students and/or gift Neha’s books to those who may be suffering silently. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nehabhat
Neha Bhat, @indiansextherapist, Copyright, 2027.
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