Unfiltered and Unashamed | Neha Bhat

Impact the World with Lee Harris

Lee Harris

Education, Entrepreneurship, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Self-improvement

5 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Neha Bhat (ABT, ATR-P) is a licensed sex and trauma psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and interdisciplinary artist practicing between India and the U.S. Her psychotherapy approach integrates arts-based, psychospiritual traditions rooted in sexual trauma healing, both at the grassroots and clinical levels. Her work is deeply informed by South Asian cultural realities, ancestral traditions, and body-based trauma recovery methods.

Timestamps:

(03:25) How her work is building bridges between the esoteric and the practical.

(09:23) Her unique professional journey—working as an artist, in prisons, as a schoolteacher, and as a sex therapist.

(16:48) How her book, Unashamed, became an instant best-seller in India and sparked powerful conversations.

(24:21) Her personal experience of never having carried sexual shame in her body and her identification as queer.

(33:01) A look at trauma therapy and the tendency to focus on only one aspect rather than addressing the whole.

(40:27) Reflections on identity, the harm of labeling and boxing others, and the lasting impact of colonization and rigid belief systems.

(49:37) The importance of always looking two levels deeper to truly understand what’s happening.

(1:04:12) Where she envisions herself in 2030 and beyond.

To learn more about Neha's work, visit: www.nehabhat.org

To purchase her book: https://www.amazon.com/Unashamed-Notes-Diary-Sex-Therapist/dp/9356996288

IG: instagram.com/indiansextherapist

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0:00.0	Learn the rules of this planet. You're here. You're not a spirit. You're here in the human form.
0:07.2	So learn it. Learn it now. That was good. That was good. That kind of like integrated a lot for me.
0:14.6	And actually helped me become a better healer.
0:27.0	Hello, welcome to Impact the World and today I'm delighted to introduce as my guest Neha Bart, who you may also know as the Indian sex therapist online.
0:33.1	Last year, Neha published her book Unashamed and so in's show, we talk about her work as a sex and trauma-based psychotherapist.
0:43.3	And we also go quite wide on many topics around spirituality and who we are.
0:50.3	And I so enjoy Neha's combination of very earthy and practical wisdom but also her deep
0:59.3	spiritual leanings which really emerge as we go through the conversation so I hope you enjoy
1:06.0	this conversation and you can learn more about Neha's work at Nehaha bart.org and as usual we'll put all links
1:14.6	including to her book Unashamed in the show notes.
1:21.9	Neha thank you so much for being here. I
1:25.6	I think it was a comment that you left on my work and I saw the comment
1:31.5	and I saw the name Indian sex therapist and I thought, that's fantastic. Let me click on that
1:36.8	page and learn more. And I was blown away by your mission, what you're doing, the level of detail and also the level of
1:48.1	wisdom and learning that you have around these areas you're working in, but also that you're,
1:53.4	you know, you're someone who is, I would say, smashing down some doors. Not necessarily
1:58.2	that that's your intention, but you're doing what's quite hard work in some of these areas because of the resistance and the barriers. So all of that said, I also just loved your energy and the boldness and the courage it takes to do what you're doing. So that was why I was like, oh, great. Let me reach out and see if Nahar will come and have a conversation with me.
2:19.5	So thank you for being here.
2:20.7	Most welcome.
2:21.4	And I'm so honored to be here on your show.
2:24.1	I've actually followed your journey quite keenly after.
2:28.7	I mean, I knew you a little bit years ago and then, you know, from next level soul as well.
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