About | Radhika Goel

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I'm Radhika Goel

My pronouns are she/her.

I’m a Counseling Psychologist, Dance/Movement Therapy Facilitator, and PoSH Trainer based in New Delhi, India. My work is rooted in somatic, trauma-informed, and intersectional approaches. It aims to facilitate a process that helps you bridge and strengthen the connection between the mind and body. I believe that the body holds more than we know and my approach centers around finding ways to assess the body in a safe way.

I deeply believe that healing is not about being a better version of yourself. It is about accepting all versions of yourself, especially the ones that are the most difficult to understand.

I am well aware of the role that social and political structures can play in shaping our understanding of self and the world. I actively work towards decoding and challenging these systems, integrating an intersectional, queer affirmative and contextual lens.

Over the years, I have facilitated Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) programs, mental health workshops, psychology and counseling training programs, group interventions, and support group spaces across workplaces, corporates, NGOs, and educational institutions. My practice blends movement and expressive arts with mental health, creating interactive and creative spaces that honor individual and shared experiences.

I am also a registered professional member of Indian Association of Dance Movement Therapy (IADMT) for the past 2 years.

Before stepping into an independent practice, as a former entrepreneur, I founded and led a mental health organization, Limelighting Life Collective, from 2020 to 2024, managing multiple teams and training 35+ students in counseling skills, mental health sensitivity, leadership, outreach, and content strategy. With hands-on experience in organizational management and team leadership, I bring a dynamic and strategic approach to creating impactful mental health initiatives. This experience shaped my understanding of mental health beyond individual healing—it deepened my commitment to advocacy, systemic change, and community care.

My Qualifications

2025

2023

2022

2021-2022

2021

2018-2020

2014- 2017

Queer Affirmative Counseling Practice (QACP) by Mariwala Health Initiative (MHI), In-person, May 2025, Mumbai

Professional Member with Indian Association of Dance Movement Therapy (IADMT)

PoSH Professional (Prevention of Sexual Harassment- Training of Trainers), One Future Collective

Trauma Focused Psychotherapy Course, Anaahat Psychotherapy

CID-UNESCO certified Dance/ Movement Therapy Facilitator

Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper, NIMHANS

Masters in Counseling Psychology, Amity University, Noida

BA (Hons) Psychology, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi

My Work Experience

Mental Health Professional for Survivor Liberation Program, One Future Collective in collaboration with Naz Foundation, New Delhi (March 2025 - Ongoing)
Working as a Queer affirmative MHP for the Survivor Liberation Program, in collaboration with Naz Foundation. Designing and facilitating psychosocial wellbeing sessions for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence among queer & trans folx. The sessions focused on trauma informed, culturally sensitive, movement & expressive arts-based approaches.
Private Practitioner, Counseling Psychologist, Movement Therapy Facilitator (April 2024 - Ongoing)
Working as a full time practitioner, offering dance movement therapy for group spaces, psycho-social counseling training programs, advanced training programs for MHPs, mental health projects and initiatives, and individual counseling sessions (online & in-person).
Consultant Counseling Psychologist, Safe Therapy (April 2024– Ongoing)
Founder CEO, Counseling Psychologist, Limelighting Life Collective (September 2020 – May, 2024)
Founder CEO, counseling psycholoogist at Limelighting Life Collective, a mental health organization based in new Delhi. Offering counseling services, lead development and facilitation of mental health and wellbeing programs, workplace-wellbeing services, sensitization programs, group work, support groups, guidance & training for psychology students.
Consultant Counseling Psychologist, AnamkaaRuh Therapy Care & Counseling (May 2022 – June 2023)
Counseling Psychologist (Consultant), Good Good Piggy (April 2022 – August 2022)
Ed-FinTech startup, featured in Shark Tank India, which encourages the new generation to develop the life-skill of managing the entire money management. Headed the team for product development for content building of the app for children.
Fellowship, Emotions Matter Foundation (Light Up) - (August 2019- October 2022):
Senior fellow with Emotions Matter Foundation (Light Up), a non-profit social venture that focuses on harnessing emotional intelligence of children, parents and teachers by developing their social and emotional competencies. Working as a social-emotional learning (SEL) facilitator/teacher at a juvenile home for boys. Also, a mentor for a child from a marginalized community under Project Phoenix that aims to build emotional resilience, grassroot leadership and financial independence in children from marginalized communities.

My Values

Intersectionality

Collaboration

Trauma Informed Care

Advocacy

Mind Body Connection

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