The Relational
Senior Consultant, Clinical Psychologist
Aarti is the sole APSATS (Association of Partners of Sex Addicts and Trauma Specialists) trained partner specialist in Asia. As a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist (CCPS), she works with many Partners of Betrayal Trauma. Her training in the Multi-Dimensional Trauma Model gives her a unique understanding into Complex and Relational Trauma. She has also been facilitating the longest running therapeutic support group for Partners of Sex Addicts in Singapore and possibly Asia. Be it a single infidelity or multiple counts of sexual betrayal, couple struggling with affairs and sexual betrayal need specialised care, which Aarti has been able to provide successfully to many couples. She is an Early Recovery Couple’s Empathy Model (ERCEM) certified therapist and a supervisor - helping not only couples heal post betrayal, but also supervise other professionals to achieve effective results with their clients. Using multiple approaches, including her Gottman Training, she works tirelessly towards a Post-Traumatic Growth for her clients. She also works with couple’s in marital distress and with relational issues using a variety of modalities to help them each understand and realize their individual and couple needs.
Trained as a clinical therapist, Aarti works extensively with Developmental Trauma and Attachment Wounds. Having achieved significant success working with individuals, both children and adults, suffering from Trauma, victims of Relational Abuse, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Mood Disorders etc. she found her true calling in helping people heal themselves from inside out. Primarily adopting a Client-Centred approach, Aarti combines multi-disciplinary approaches such as inclusion of NLP, CBT, DBT, EFT & Gestalt in order to provide her clients with a wider tool-kit to support their healing journey. Having completed her Brainspotting training for Phase 1 and 2, she seamlessly blends this into her practice to help her clients gain more in-depth healing from traumatic experiences.
Aarti’s portfolio of work also includes work with those in the sphere of emotional and behavioural challenges. She works tirelessly with teenagers and young adults who are most at risk from self-harm, suicide, depression, eating disorders and body image issues. Aarti is also at the leading edge of the practise by addressing more recent phenomena such as cyber-bullying, ill effects of technology such as premature, accidental exposure to graphic porn.
Aarti’s professional journey spans nearly 19 years in which she has constantly upgraded and updated her skills to meet emerging challenges. She is also a British Psychological Society (BPS) Certified Psychometric Tester and a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Gifted with a natural empathy, concern and compassion for those enduring Trauma, Aarti has seen higher rates of success across the board due to her personality that complements her skill-sets. Coming from a deeply spiritual family, Aarti truly believes in every individual’s ability to find their strength and understanding. Crossing religious barriers, she is able to connect with clients of different faiths at a spiritual level and help them heal from inside out. She works with them tirelessly to empower them to be champions of their own healing and realize their own potential.