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Consults at:
1. NU Hospitals (West)
2. Sri Madhava Speciality Clinic
3. Online mode.
MS (Counseling Psy), CCTSI, ACCTSI
Clinical Trauma Therapist · Couples Therapist · Sex Therapist
Dr Nachiketha is a psychotherapist holding advanced certification as a trauma specialist. He largely works with clients coming from frightening, emotionally neglected (CEN), insecure attachment and unstable family environment presenting with PTSD, anxiety, depression, complex trauma, suicidal ideation, addictions, moral injury, psycho-somatic disorders, affected self-worth and self-esteem. He believes that the foundation of any therapy’s success is in the development of an effective therapeutic relationship, attunement with a calm presence with his clients and the incorporation of Feedback Informed Therapy (FIT). He walks with clients through body-awareness and mindfulness-based approach that opens the door to healing the traumatic stress from the past intruding into their present, many a times needless to go back and work on the past.
He uses approaches like Narrative Exposure Therapy, Compassionate Inquiry, Internal Family Systems therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR, Polyvagal theory, Neurobiological understanding and body based therapies to understand, desensitize and integrate the traumatic stress.
He is also a trained & certified couples therapist and sex therapist. He works with couples to help them understand their past self-protective coping mechanisms hindering their current relationships and prepares them to take emotional risks while supporting them to move forward in deepening their intimacy through differentiation. Emotional disconnection, intimacy and vulnerability blocks, shame and desire discrepancy are some of his areas of work with couples.
He brings a rich experience of having worked with over 3000 clients with different ethnicity and culture across different countries for over 12 years.
He is a meditation practitioner and believes in applying the practice of meditation in day to day and moment to moment life. He can fluently converse in English and Kannada.
A single or multiple events that you may or may not remember well can take a toll on your sense of safety, security, affecting your ability to love, reconnect and grow. Sexual, physical or verbal abuse, neglect, loss of a loved one can be very few to name. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (Simple & Complex), Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder are some of diagnosed conditions in this umbrella.
Persistent worry, fear about everyday situations, restlessness, easily irritable, difficulty concentrating, difficulty falling asleep, sudden unexpected episodes of intense fear that peaks up in minutes with symptoms like palpitations, racing heart, shortness of breath or feeling smothering/chocking, sweating, trembling, feelings of being out of control and discomfort in the body are some of the symptoms that you understand you are living in an anxious state often than you want to. Generalized Anxiety Disorder, OCD, Panic disorder, Social phobia, and PTSD are some diagnosed conditions in this category.
Intense fear of something specific like heights, specific animals, injections, blood, closed/open space, public transportation/crowd, etc.
Angry outbursts (Verbal/physical), easily getting irritated, raging behavior, tendency to have heated arguments, fights, berate someone, blame others, are some of the behaviors to recognize that one is stuck with anger issues and deserve better quality of life.
Pain standing longer than 3-6months, that is generally unexplained by medicine, difficult to diagnose, undetectable by medical tests are known to have emotional and psychological components that may be seldom understood and unaddressed. Addressing them, learning to overcome it or living with it without being bothered can change the quality of life.
Physical complaints or symptoms that are caused or worsened by psychological factors like stress, anxiety, shame, etc. For e.g: Gastric symptoms, IBS, migraine, skin disorders, hypertension, etc. Excessive worry about health is a well-understood tendency in this group of disorders.
Porn addiction, Sexual addiction, Body image issues, concerns around pre-mature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction, anxiety or worries around sex can be quite bothering and even come in the way of having a fulfilling relationship with the partner.
Challenged self-esteem or anxiety around sex, blocks and hindrances in sex, desire differences or gaps between partners, issues around arousal and orgasm, struggles around missing romanticism and eroticism in the relationship, pain or fear around sex & vaginismus, missing intimacy or fear/hindrances around expression of authentic self, blocks in emotional connection pose as certain challenges in relationship or sex.
