Client Voice

Jaya Narayan

Reflections shared by people who have worked with me in Individual Therapy, Therapeutic Groups and Duo Space. I am grateful to each person for giving permission for their words to be shared. Testimonials describe individual experiences and cannot predict what therapy will be like for someone else.

Jaya is an incredible therapist. I have been able to such conscious changes to how I resource myself through incredibly difficult challenges including C-PTSD. I love that she has a variety of resources available and is able to tell me how to utilise each one based on her experience and observations of what works best me. These insights are really valuable and she has been an amazing witness to my growth and healing.

Jaya is an exceptionally caring, patient, and supportive therapist who truly embodies what a therapist should be. She consistently puts my well-being first, listening without judgment and offering insights that feel both thoughtful and deeply compassionate. Jaya has a rare gift for creating a safe space where I can be honest and vulnerable, and her unwavering support has made a profound difference in my life. I’m incredibly grateful for her dedication and the meaningful progress I’ve made with her guidance.

Jaya is an excellent somatic arts therapist who is extremely knowledgeable, compassionate and dedicated in ways that have been transformative for me as a QTPOC. Her knowledge and expertise in somatics, and her commitment to anti-racism have helped me therapeutically in ways I didn't know possible. In my experience it's been impossible to find a practitioner who understands the experiences of POC and know how to treat us with more than just baseline dignity but with whole-hearted understanding, kindness and compassion, while embodying a fierceness that advocates for better in our lives and in the world. In fact I have been burnt several times trying to find professionals who care about our experiences of racism, and its intersections with homophobia and transphobia. She truly is one-of-a-kind practitioner and I'm so glad I finally found what I have been longing for in her practice.

Through Jaya’s embodied, dignified, and generous therapeutic support, I have been able to shift from fear and stagnancy into movement and joy in ways that I never thought possible. Her practice has given me a sense of agency in and respect for myself. After many years of trying to fix, change, and diagnose, I can just be…

I have been working with Jaya for the past 3 years. I have found both the individual and group sessions shaping me in positive ways. I am better able to tolerate my emotions, and our psychodrama sessions have been defining moments for me, where my relationship to certain emotions shifted out of states that had felt fixed for a long time. I have felt the most witnessed and emotionally held with Jaya, when I think about all my life experiences for the past 30+ years. I am grateful to Jaya for the time and energy and compassion and grace she has provided me.

Group work has shown me that our internal struggles have many similarities. And witnessing others' responses to group activities has been very insightful in teaching me about myself. Jaya is a brilliant facilitator of group work, she creates a safe space for each and every one of us, and I truly appreciate how shares her own process and reflections.

Jaya has accompanied me through getting to meet and know deeply my body and my inner child for the last 3 years. It has been incredibly special to me to build and grow this therapeutic relationship with Jaya, who has a way of seeing and witnessing me authentically, while learning to also laugh together along the way. I am grateful to continue our work together in the next years.

In a world that moves too fast and asks too much, Jaya creates a cocoon away from the noise. With her, I find a soft place to land — a place where I can slow down enough to actually feel myself again, to meet my emotions, sensations, and inner experiences without rushing past them. In that safety, her gentle curiosity invites me to explore what arises in my body with creativity and honesty. Over time, she’s helped me understand that this — this tender noticing — is the real work. Jaya’s approach is deeply attuned, exquisitely grounded, and unlike anything I’ve experienced. I recommend her wholeheartedly.