sacred resilience trainings

Sacred Resilience Trainings were created by Neha Bhat for individuals who wish to move beyond performative wellness culture and into more mature, psychologically informed, and ethically responsible healing work, especially while working with and navigating taboo topics. These trainings were created in response to a growing need for psychologically rigorous, ethically grounded, culturally relevant trauma education in India and the Global South.

Blending expressive arts therapies, somatic psychology, trauma studies, attachment theory, erotic intelligence, relational neuroscience, and depth-oriented clinical practice, Sacred Resilience Trainings aim to cultivate practitioners capable of holding complexity, intimacy, grief, shame, and embodied healing with integrity and skill.

These are not surface-level certification spaces. They are long-term educational containers focused on nervous-system literacy, ethical facilitation, psychological depth, cultural sensitivity, and embodied clinical presence.

These programs are designed to support the development of practitioners who can:

• hold complexity without bypassing
• work relationally rather than hierarchically
• understand trauma beyond diagnostic language
• integrate embodiment with clinical knowledge
• facilitate healing spaces responsibly
• remain rooted in ethics, humility, and nervous-system awareness
  
  Applications and training announcements open seasonally.
  

The Restoration & Resilience Certification in Clinical Sexual Trauma Therapy

level: advanced

A 60 hour In-Depth Training & Supervision Program 

For Practicing and in-training Psychotherapists, doctors, alternative healers, lawyers, somatic practitioners and others to help individuals impacted by sexual trauma access
post-traumatic recovery and growth.

May – August 2027
+ GROUP SUPERVISION
+ an IN-PERSON HEALER’S RETREAT in Dec 2027

Time:
3 hour sessions every Friday evening IST for 16 weeks consistently

Recordings will be available after each week so participants can catch up at their own time preference.

Concrete Gains Envisioned for Clinicians, Healers, Doctors, Credentialed Social Workers and Wellness Coaches:

• Learn in 16 Sessions, every week for 3 hours each virtually – attend from anywhere in the world
  
• Gain clinical interventions for sexual-trauma focused trauma therapy.
  
• Challenge your practice with in-depth clinical assignments
  
• Engage in In-depth case discussions
  
• Upskill with Art-based creative wellness modalities to help your clients
  
• Gain Professional Training in the Foundations of Sexual Trauma Therapy
  
• Gain Practical guidance to setting up and strengthening your clinical practice
  
• Access Mentorship and Clinical Supervision with Neha and invite-only clinical lectures with professional mentors worldwide.
  
• Join a collective of therapists and healers with shared worldviews and practices – this lasts lifelong
  

TRAINING SYLLABUS:

SESSION	DATE	CURRICULUM
SESSION 1	WEEK 1	MODULE 1 : Foundations of Sexual Trauma Therapy for the Therapist-Healer
SESSION 2	WEEK 2	Clinical Attunement to Sexual Trauma
SESSION 3	WEEK 3	Foundations and Nuances of Generous Listening for Survivors of Sexual Trauma
SESSION 4	WEEK 4	Helping Clients Process Wounding – Rape Trauma
SESSION 5	WEEK 5	MODULE 2: Creating Appropriate Intervention
SESSION 6	WEEK 6	Helping clients break long-held patterns around trauma
SESSION 7	WEEK 7	Helping clients break long-held patterns around trauma Guest Supervisor Week
SESSION 8	WEEK 8	Balancing Dynamics and Holding Conflict within the Healing Space for True Change
SESSION 9	WEEK 9	MODULE 3: Psychosomatic Approaches to Sexual Trauma Healing
SESSION 10	WEEK 10	Couples Work
SESSION 11	WEEK 11	Intimacy Coaching
SESSION 12	WEEK 12	Family Therapy Approaches  Guest Supervisor Week
SESSION 13	WEEK 13	MODULE 4: Clinician Entrepreneurship Coaching : Boost your practice with concrete results
SESSION 14	WEEK 14	Creating your clinical sex therapist identity
SESSION 15	WEEK 15	Clinical Work-through week – setup your ethical business model
SESSION 16	WEEK 16	Clinical Work-through week – setup your ethical business model
SESSION 17		IN-PERSON CLOSURE AND MEETING : Graduation, meet and greet, networking space in the field.

Reflections from some of our graduates in the US, in Mexico, in Singapore, Malaysia and India of the Sexual Trauma Healer’s Course:

“Sacred Resilience reinforced the power of communal spaces to hold our curiosity, creativity, and complexities. It showed me that repair is possible—in ways that honour our boundaries and our expansiveness.”
Simran N Chandnani, Intimacy Coach

“This isn’t just professional training, it’s a personal reclamation. I walked away with new tools, yes, but also with a deeper sense of belonging in my own body.”
Tulsi Mehrotra Menon, Somatic Healer & Anthropologist

“The R&R course deepened my understanding of the body not only as a vessel that holds trauma, but also as a powerful site for healing and reconnection. It has enriched my ability to integrate somatic approaches into my work, creating a space where clients can gently reconnect with their own resilience.”
Kanupriya Mody, Art Therapist

“It’s rare to find a training that honours both complexity and tenderness. This course met me exactly where I was, and expanded my capacity to work with intimacy, safety, and pleasure in the therapy room.”
Titir Dewan, Psychotherapist

Find the 2025 Cohort here: https://nehabhat.org/sacred-resilience/2025-cohort/

Designed and Taught By Neha Bhat, ABT, ATR-P

“Emotional energy when channeled positively is creative power.

Every day, from my therapy desk, I see that sexuality has been repressed in the larger Indian context.

Part of my life’s work is to help people normalize their sexual and creative expression in relation to their personal power, to heal from sexual shame and expand their understanding of sexual trauma.“

Executed by Neha Bhat’s Therapy Practices
Sacred Resilience – Sexual Trauma Healing Collective

Investment:

INR 1, 80, 000 or USD 2,000 to be paid in 2 or 3 installments between confirmation of your application and April 1st 2026.

• The course runs 16 weeks, 3 hours each week digitally with follow-up group supervision hours and a closure meeting in-person (optional attendance).
  
• Attendance to most of the 16 sessions is mandatory. Recordings will be provided.
  
• The in-person closure will be organized by the team, however, the travel will be self-funded. It will be organized in an accessible space.
  
• No refunds can be provided due to the highly alive nature of the course and its material which is designed and tailored to each cohort.
  

In Care and Service,
Neha Bhat and Team
Prerna – Graduate Clinical Intern and
Pratibha P – Psychiatry advisor