Nikita Sahay

For eight years, Nikita has sat with people in the parts of life that words struggle to hold — trauma, anxiety, grief. Somewhere in those years she stopped treating the body as a side note. Clients would narrate a memory calmly while their hands went cold, or laugh while their shoulders climbed towards their ears. The body was always saying the truer thing first.

That conviction took her to the Center for Healing in the USA, where she trained in somatic work, and later into Gottman-informed couple counselling. The two fit together more naturally than she expected: one gives you the map of what couples do, the other gives you the felt sense of why they cannot stop doing it.

Before private practice, Nikita spent years inside large organisations — Walmart, JLL and Accenture — as a Corporate Psychologist and Benefits Specialist. That work taught her something that still shapes her teaching: people do not change because they were given good information. They change when their system feels safe enough to try something new.

Mind Meredian is her own venture, and this training is the first of its kind she has built — a somatic and polyvagal lens on couple therapy, made for practising therapists in India. It is the course she wishes had existed when she was watching two people argue in front of her and sensing, clearly, that the argument was not the point.