BIOGRAPHY
Gunjan Bhatia (pronounced guun-juhn) is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner who offers depth-oriented somatic work centered on nervous system regulation. Her practice emphasizes respect for each person’s unique process, particularly in moments where experience feels existential, unresolved, or difficult to name. Her work is rooted in the conviction that being fully witnessed, without agenda, is not a luxury but a necessity for the nervous system and the human spirit.
In sessions, Gunjan attends closely to breath, rhythm, and subtle shifts in the body. She listens not only to words, but to pauses, silences, and changes in regulation, allowing space for quiet emotions and long-held experience to emerge. The work prioritizes relational safety so experience can unfold without pressure to explain or perform, and guidance can land when it is most needed.
In a culture that often privileges meaning and effort, this work offers a counterpoint: a place where experience is not hurried or reframed, and where pain does not have to become meaningful in order to be met. Many people arrive having learned—implicitly or explicitly—that certain feelings are too much, too disruptive, or too inconvenient to be held by others. Her work is shaped by a capacity to remain present with experiences others may rush or avoid.
Many individuals come to this work after reaching the limits of insight-based or problem-solving approaches. Her work resonates with those who quietly carry complexity, hold responsibility within families, institutions, or communities, and have few places where their own experience can be fully met.
This work requires a particular kind of readiness. It speaks to those willing to slow their pace, tolerate not-knowing, and remain with experience as it unfolds.
Gunjan began her professional practice in 2014, working with individuals navigating serious illness, post-surgical recovery, and end-of-life transitions, informed by her training in subtle-body modalities. These experiences shaped her respect for fragility, grief, and the limits of will-based approaches, and grounded her commitment to humility, patience, and thoughtful accompaniment.
Her practice is informed by a three-year training in Somatic Experiencing®, with additional study in developmental trauma and collective trauma. She also assists in Somatic Experiencing® trainings, supporting students as they refine their skills with attention to nervous system regulation, pacing, and ethical presence.
She holds a Master’s degree in Global Ethics from King’s College London, which informs her ability to sit with suffering that extends beyond the personal, including experiences shaped by displacement, moral injury, and collective harm. Her formal background in dance and movement studies further supports her attunement to somatic rhythm and embodied emotion.
She offers individual sessions online and works with a limited number of clients at a time in order to maintain depth, continuity, and care.