BIOGRAPHY
In a culture that often privileges explanation, movement, and resolution, 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, avoid, or soften.
Many clients come to this work after reaching the limits of insight-based or problem-solving approaches. Her work is often sought by experienced healthcare providers, caregivers, and individuals in positions of responsibility—people accustomed to holding steadiness for others, with few places to have their own experience fully met.
This work requires a particular kind of readiness. It tends to resonate with those willing to slow their pace, tolerate not-knowing, and remain with experience as it unfolds.
Gunjan Bhatia (pronounced guun-juhn) is a Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner who offers depth-oriented somatic work that centers nervous system regulation through presence and attunement. Her practice emphasizes respect for each person’s 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, perform, or resolve.
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 regulation, pacing, and ethical presence.
Gunjan 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.
Gunjan offers individual sessions online and works with a limited number of clients at a time in order to maintain depth, continuity, and care.