Bhavya Chetal

Description

Hi, I’m Bhavya Chetal, a Psychotherapist and Counseling Psychologist with extensive clinical experience across individual therapy, couples counseling, and community-based mental health initiatives. I have had the opportunity to work with diverse populations across varied settings, including platforms like Being Health and Mindhail, private therapeutic organizations, non-profits, and hospitals. My experience includes supporting individuals and couples navigating concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, complex relationship and attachment dynamics, trauma, neurodivergent life navigation, and daily emotional difficulties. Working across diverse settings, including non-profit work with organizations like the Blind Persons Association, which has given me a grounded understanding of the varied social, personal, and cultural challenges individuals experience throughout different life stages. My approach to counseling is warm, empathetic, and non-judgmental, with a focus on creating a safe, grounding space where you feel genuinely seen, heard, and supported. I draw heavily from psychodynamic, humanistic, trauma-informed, and affirmative frameworks, recognizing that every person brings a unique story and that therapy should always be tailored to your specific lived experiences, identities, and personal goals. I believe in approaching mental health through an integrative, affirmative lens, ensuring my practice is explicitly queer-affirmative, neurodivergence-affirmative, and sensitive to multicultural dynamics. Alongside my Master’s research in emotional awareness (alexithymia) and attachment patterns, I incorporate specialized techniques such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), and level-certified Couples Therapy. Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, my goal is to foster deep self-awareness, emotional resilience, and healthier ways of relating to yourself and others. Having conducted extensive (more than 400 hours) 1:1 sessions, couples sessions, and community workshops, my goal is to empower you to understand yourself better, process past and present challenges, and work toward meaningful, sustainable healing. If you feel ready to take that step, you are warmly invited to begin your therapeutic journey with me.