Hi, I’m Sakshi
I work with parents - individually and as couples - whose homes have begun to feel tense, reactive, or emotionally distant after children.
I didn’t arrive at this work from theory alone.
For much of my life, I carried a quiet belief that I was not enough - not capable, not steady, not truly deserving of space. “I don’t know anything” slowly became my identity and default voice.
I grew up in a small town in India with limited resources, little encouragement for girls’ education, and years of learning how to disappear rather than take up room.
Later, I built a successful corporate career across countries and cultures. On the outside, I was functioning. Responsible. Reliable.
Inside, I was often braced.
Becoming a mother exposed what I could no longer manage through effort or intelligence alone.
I was not fighting my child.
I was not even fighting my partner.
I was living inside a nervous system that did not feel safe.
I tried to improve myself the way many parents do - through learning, discipline, and doing more “correctly.”
But change did not come from trying harder.
It came from slowing down enough to listen to what my body had been carrying for years.
Through conscious parenting, somatic work, and nervous-system regulation, I began to rebuild - not into a perfect version of myself, but into a steadier one.
That shift changed how I parented.
It changed how I related.
It changed how I lived inside my own life.
This is where Safety-Led Parenting™ was born.
Not as a method to control children, but as a way to restore safety inside the parent first - because children respond to what we carry, not what we instruct.
How I work
My work is informed by trauma-aware parenting, nervous-system regulation, and somatic psychology.
I draw from conscious parenting, compassionate inquiry, mindfulness-based practice, and polyvagal-informed frameworks developed by clinicians and researchers including:
Dr. Shefali Tsabary
Dr. Gabor Maté
Eckhart Tolle
Dr. Stephen Porges
These are foundations - not techniques to perform.
What matters most in my work is not doing things right, but becoming more present, more resourced, and more emotionally available.I built a corporate career, moved countries, and learned how to function at a high level - even when I felt disconnected inside.
From the outside, things looked stable.
Inside, I was operating through pressure, self-doubt, and constant self-monitoring.
Like many people, I learned how to perform competence without feeling safe.
This way of living works - until it doesn’t.
Professional foundations
My work is informed by trauma-aware parenting, nervous-system regulation, and somatic psychology.
It draws from established frameworks including conscious parenting, compassionate inquiry, mindfulness-based practice, and polyvagal-informed theory — developed by clinicians and researchers such as Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Dr. Gabor Maté, Eckhart Tolle, and Dr. Stephen Porges.
These are foundations for how I understand safety, stress, and human behavior — not techniques to perform or scripts to follow.
What I believe
Children cooperate when they feel safe.
Safety begins with the parent.
Power struggles are fear struggles.
Awareness returns when the body feels safe enough to receive it.
I don’t work to make parents better.
I work to help them feel safer - inside themselves, and inside their families.
If something in you is tired of holding everything together alone, you’re not broken.
You’re human.
And you’re not meant to do this without support.