Arti

Mrs Arti Keyal, MA

Counseling Psychologist

verified by TherapyRoute

Offering Emotionally Focused Therapy for anxiety, depression, shame, ACEs and relationship issues using trauma-informed and somatic approaches. Specialising in couples therapy and marriage counselling, I help couples with conflict resolution, communication & trust issues, infidelity recovery, and emotional disconnection to rebuild intimacy and create healthier, secure attachment styles. Serving adolescents, adults and families across India and diaspora.

About Me

I am a Counselling Psychologist and Psychotherapist trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). I help individuals, couples, and families manage anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship issues. I specialise in couples therapy, marriage counselling, narcissistic abuse recovery, CPT for C-PTSD and PTSD, Somatic Therapy, Dance Movement Therapy, Third Wave CBT (ACT, Mindfulness), and Polyvagal Nervous System Regulation, supporting high-functioning professionals and emotionally sensitive Indians, across India, NewYork and London, to build resilience, and create conscious, fulfilling relationships. Other areas of expertise include women’s mental health, midlife transitions, parenting support, stress, burnout, low self-esteem, and boundary issues with spouse, siblings, parents, in-laws, friends or co-workers. I came to this work not only through professional training, but through a lifelong inquiry and walking alongside people at their most vulnerable moments — times of heartbreak, loss, identity shifts, emotional exhaustion, and quiet inner suffering that often goes unseen. I work slowly, intuitively, and relationally — paying attention not just to what is said, but to what is felt, avoided, and held in the body. I do not see you as a list of symptoms to be "fixed." I see someone having a normal protective reaction to an overwhelming, toxic, or painful environment. My goal is to provide a compassionate safe space where the shame loses its power, your boundaries are championed, and your nervous system can finally exhale.

Approach

My work is rooted in shame and trauma-informed somatic healing for C-PTSD & narcissistic abuse recovery, emotionally focused couples therapy, and CBT for anxiety, and Mind-Body integration with DMT. We cannot simply "think" our way out of a body that feels stuck in survival mode. My approach is active and collaborative; I help you map out the cycles keeping you stuck and give you the tools to break them. Releasing the Physical Grip of Panic: Using Somatic and Dance Movement Therapy (DMT), we release the physical "freeze" survival responses trapped in your body to regulate the nervous system. Healing Relationships: Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we repair the trust shattered by infidelity or neglect and rebuild secure connections in families and couples. Ending the Cycle of Abuse: We focus on objective reality-testing with Compassionate Inquiry (CI) to clear the fog of gaslighting and covert manipulation to build unshakeable boundaries. Processing Trauma & Dismantling Self-Blame: Using Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) to safely untangle deep-rooted pain and rewrite your story after abuse. Building Resilience: Using Third-Wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT (ACT, DBT), we stop the war with overthinking, anxiety and panic to align your life with your core values. https://www.therapyroute.com/article/how-to-stop-reacting-and-strengthen-emotional-resilience-by-arti-keyal
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Services


Holistic Counselling & Psychotherapy for Indians & the Global Diaspora Specialized Therapeutic Services: COUPLES THERAPY & RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLING ❤️Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT): Moving from repetitive cycles and communication breakdown to secure attachment and intimacy. 💔Infidelity & Betrayal Recovery: Specialized support after cheating, affairs, lies and rebuilding trust after relationship trauma. 👫Modern Relationship Support: Professional guidance for dating, live-in relationships, premarital jitters, and matrimonial confusion. 😠Conflict Resolution: Addressing marital friction, in-law dynamics, and emotional detachment. 🔚Divorce & Separation: Compassionate support for navigating the emotional and practical shifts after breakup. TRAUMA & ABUSE RECOVERY ⚠️Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: Specialized healing for those navigating toxic relationships, gaslighting, and "hidden" emotional abuse. https://www.therapyroute.com/article/the-emotional-tightrope-a-therapists-open-letter-to-both-sides-of-a-dysfunctional-relationship-by-a-keyal 😨C-PTSD & PTSD Treatment: Trauma-informed care for ACEs focused on safety, stabilization, and processing deep-seated wounds and emotional dysregulation. ⚛️Somatic Trauma Healing: Integrating body-awareness to release trauma that the mind cannot yet name. 🧒Childhood Neglect & Healing: Addressing the "inner child" and intergenerational trauma patterns common in Indian households with shadow work or Family Therapy. https://www.therapyroute.com/article/how-to-stop-reacting-and-strengthen-emotional-resilience-by-arti-keyal SPECIALIZED MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT FOR INDIAN WOMEN 👰‍♀Engaged, New Bride & Early Marriage Transitions: Emotional support for women navigating identity shifts, commitment clarity, family expectations, in-law dynamics, and the psychological adjustments of married life 🤰Reproductive Mental Health: Counseling for PCOS-related mood shifts, PMS, PMDD, and infertility/ IVF stress. 👩‍🍼Maternal Wellness: Support for prenatal/postpartum depression, anxiety, and the transition into motherhood. 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦Cultural Role Conflict: Navigating the pressures of being a daughter, wife, mother, and daughter-in-law in the modern diaspora. 👧Life Stage Transitions: Emotional support for puberty, menopause, and the "Empty Nest Syndrome." INDIVIDUAL MENTAL HEALTH AND RESILIENCE 😰High-Functioning Anxiety & Panic: Somatic tools to manage the "always-on" nervous system, dissociation and social, health, or performance anxiety. https://www.therapyroute.com/article/why-do-my-self-soothing-techniques-make-my-anxiety-worse-instead-of-helping-me-calm-down-by-a-keyal 😔Depression & Helplessness: A safe space to move through grief, loss, and chronic low mood. 🏥Health & Post-Surgery: Emotional Support for coping with illness, medical trauma, recovery anxiety, and emotional adjustment after surgery. 🍿Binge Eating & Body Image: Targeted support (CBT-E) for disordered eating and building a healthy relationship with your body. 🥰Self-Esteem & Boundaries: Empowerment training to help you gain assertiveness and stop people-pleasing. ⛓️‍💥Toxic Family Dynamics: Breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma, navigating enmeshment, estrangement (going no-contact), and gaslighting parents, and setting boundaries without guilt. MENTORING AND LIFE TRANSITIONS 👵Midlife & Senior Mentoring: Emotional and psychological support for identity shifts, retirement transitions, purpose-seeking, empty-nest syndrome, aging-related anxiety, and second-half-of-life challenges for men and women. https://www.therapyroute.com/article/reclaiming-your-center-a-selfless-leadership-for-mothers-masterclass-by-a-keyal 👨‍💼Professional Stress & Burnout: Resiliency building for high-achieving professionals and corporate stress management. 👨‍👩‍👧Parenting & Co-parenting: Guidance for conscious parenting, managing teen concerns, and bullying. 👩‍🎓Student Support: Addressing academic pressure, exam-fever, test anxiety, and poor motivation in university, college and school-age students. DANCE MOVEMENT THERAPY (DMT): An experiential body-based expressive arts therapy using creative movement to embody and process emotions, release trauma, and restore mind–body connection. You might be here because somewhere inside you feel: “I’m tired of being strong.” “I feel successful but empty.” “I attract emotionally unavailable partners.” “I don’t know who I am anymore.” “I keep overthinking and can’t switch my mind off.” “I’m always giving, but feel emotionally drained.” You don’t need to have all the answers. You just need a non-judgmental space to begin. Who This Is For Whether you are based in India or are part of the global diaspora, I understand the hidden pressures we face: The Indian Diaspora: Global Indians, NRIs, expats & TRs worldwide Navigating identity, intergenerational trauma, and cultural displacement. Modern Professionals: Dealing with work dissatisfaction, career shifts, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and work-stress burnout. People in Life-Transition: Those facing midlife changes, early marriage adjustments, Inter-caste marriage problems with family, divorce, empty nest syndrome, health recovery, or education/ career shifts. Emotionally Sensitive Individuals: People who feel deeply, overthink often, struggle with boundaries, people-pleasing, emotional exhaustion, or attachment anxiety. Adolescents And Adults With Adverse Childhood Experiences ACEs: Those with complex-PTSD symptoms, sleep disturbances and nightmares, attachment trauma,insecure attachment styles, childhood sexual, physical, verbal abuse trauma or neglect. https://www.therapyroute.com/article/stuck-on-autopilot-why-your-childhood-drama-is-following-you-everywhere-by-a-keyal Couples & Relationships: Partners experiencing communication breakdown, emotional distance, trust issues, infidelity recovery, dating challenges, premarital anxiety, or recurring conflict patterns. Parents & Families: Mothers and fathers navigating parenting stress, conscious parenting, teenage concerns, co-parenting after separation, co-dependency, estrangement and intergenerational family dynamics. Note: While I am not a medical psychiatrist and do not treat emergency clinical crises, I provide a deep, transformative space for long-term emotional resilience. Ready to Reclaim Your Peace? I offer individual 60-minute sessions and intensive 90-minute couples/ family consultations. Flexible monthly subscription plans are available for consistent growth. Location: Online (Global) WhatsApp/Call: +91 93309 29000 Official Website: withlovearti.wordpress.com Take the first step toward a lighter heart. Book your consultation today.

Services Offered:

  • Relationship Counseling

    Counselling for couples or partners focused on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and strengthening emotional connection.

  • Trauma Counseling

    Counselling specifically for people affected by traumatic events, focused on processing what happened and reducing symptoms like flashbacks and hypervigilance.

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  • Personal Development

    The ongoing process of self-awareness, self-improvement, and reaching one's potential, pursued not because something is wrong but to live more fully.

  • CBT

    Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, a structured, evidence-based approach that identifies and changes unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours.

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  • Somatic Psychotherapy

    A form of therapy focused on the connection between mind and body, using body awareness and movement to release held tension, trauma, and emotion.

  • Divorce Counselling

    Counselling for individuals or couples going through separation or divorce, addressing the emotional, practical, and relational dimensions.

  • Expressive Arts Therapy

    A therapeutic approach that combines visual art, music, movement, writing, and drama as channels for emotional expression and processing.

  • Online Therapy

    Therapy sessions conducted over video call, phone, or secure messaging, using the same professional methods delivered remotely.

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  • Individual Therapy

    One-on-one therapy sessions between a client and a therapist, focused on that person's specific concerns and goals.

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  • Coaching

    A goal-oriented practice focused on identifying objectives, overcoming obstacles, and taking action, centred on the present and future rather than past difficulties.

Works With:

  • Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Couples
  • Individuals
  • Parents
  • Elderly
  • Families

Area of Expertise


Scope of Practice:

  • Life Transitions

    Major life changes, such as relocation, retirement, parenthood, or career shifts, that disrupt routine and require psychological adjustment.

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  • Anxiety

    Persistent worry, nervousness, or fear that is disproportionate to the situation and interferes with daily functioning.

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  • Relationship Issues

    Difficulties in romantic relationships, including communication problems, trust breakdowns, conflict patterns, or uncertainty about the relationship's future.

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  • PTSD

    Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a condition that develops after a traumatic event, causing flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, and emotional numbness.

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  • Depression

    A mood disorder marked by persistent low mood, loss of interest or pleasure, and changes in energy, sleep, or appetite that impair daily functioning.

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  • Abuse

    Emotional, physical, or sexual mistreatment by another person that causes lasting psychological harm and disrupts a person's sense of safety.

  • Parenting Support

    Guidance for the psychological challenges of raising children, including discipline, communication, co-parenting, and managing the emotional demands of parenthood.

  • Grief, Loss & Bereavement

    The emotional, physical, and psychological response to the death of a loved one or another significant loss, varying widely in duration and expression.

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  • Women's Issues

    Psychological challenges more commonly experienced by women, including gender-based stress, reproductive health concerns, body image, caregiving burden, and societal expectations.

  • Stress / Burnout

    The body and mind's response to prolonged or excessive demands. When sustained, it can lead to emotional exhaustion, detachment, and reduced functioning (burnout).

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Professional Title:

  • Counseling Psychologist

    A psychologist who helps people with everyday life challenges (relationships, work stress, adjustment) as well as mental health conditions.

Qualifications


Master of Arts

Masters

UGC Recognized University

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Bachelor

Delhi University

DDMT, Diploma in Dance Movement Therapy

Tata Institute of Social Sciences TISS, Mumbai

CBT-E for Eating Disorders

University of Oxford

Anxiety Certification Training

PESI UK

Registrations


ICEEFT

Emotionally Focused Therapy For Individuals, Couples and Family

Service Areas


Mirror To Infinite Counseling & Psychotherapy, Kolkata

In-person & Online

Alipore

Kolkata, West Bengal

India

AMBLE: 1:1 Relationship Trauma Counselling & Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

In-person & Online

Sainik Farms

Delhi, Delhi

India

Counselling Psychologist | Near NIFT College, Bangalore

Online Only

Bengaluru · Mumbai · Gurugram

India

Online Therapy for Indian Professionals | Near Googleplex & Stanford University

In-person & Online

Rivermark of Santa Clara

San Jose, California

United States

Online Therapy for Indians | Near Wembley Stadium / Serving Greater London

In-person & Online

Islington

London, England

United Kingdom

Also serving online:

Bengaluru · Mumbai · Gurugram

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