Trauma is not a story you tell; it’s a story your body remembers long even after your mind tries to forget.
And yet, for years, people have been told to “just talk it out,” as if language alone can excavate what was buried without your consent.
The truth? Trauma therapy is far more layered, technical, embodied, and courageous than simply sitting across a professional and answering, “So how do you feel?”
At Another Light Counselling (ALC), we see this every single day because trauma doesn’t politely sit in your thoughts; it leaks into your sleep, your relationships, your triggers, your ability to trust, and sometimes even your ability to breathe.
Talk Helps. But Trauma Needs More.
Traditional talk therapy gives you insight.
Trauma therapy gives you integration.
One helps you understand your pain.
The other helps your system release it.
And that’s where specialised modalities like Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), somatic work, inner child healing, attachment repair, and various other trauma-informed approaches come in. They go beyond telling the story and actually trace the scars your nervous system has been protecting you from.
As Aanchal often says with her characteristic clarity:
“Trauma doesn’t respond to logic. It responds to safety.”
And safety isn’t built through words alone.
It’s built through experience.
Why Aanchal Leads With More Than Conversation
Aanchal Narang—Founder & Head Therapist at Another Light Counselling—is today recognised as one of India’s leading trauma therapists not because she talks well, but because she works deeply.
With years of clinical experience in trauma healing, queer affirmative practice, grief work, IFS / parts work EMDR, inner child work, and identity-related therapy, Aanchal’s approach is both rigorous and radically human.
Her training spans trauma-informed frameworks, queer-affirmative certification, somatic techniques, attachment-based interventions, and evidence-based modalities that help people recover not just emotionally but physiologically.
But more than her qualifications, what makes her work transformative is her philosophy:
“People don’t heal because they talk. They heal because they finally start being authentic enough to their feelings and start showing up for themselves.”
It’s bold. It’s true.
What Makes Another Light Counselling Different
Another Light Counselling (ALC) isn’t your typical mental health setup with checklists and textbook answers.
It’s a space designed for depth, not performative wellness.
Our trauma therapy environment is built around five core principles:
1. Safety First, Always
No rushing, no pushing, no re-traumatisation. The process follows your nervous system’s speed, not society’s expectations.
2. Evidence-Based Trauma Modalities
EMDR, IFS, somatic techniques, grounding tools, nervous system regulation, inner child work— methodologies that go beyond insight and help create actual shifts.
3. Affirmative, Inclusive, Real
Whether you’re exploring identity, queerness, generational wounds, or relational trauma—your truth is held without judgement.
4. A Team Trained for Depth, Not Surface-Level
Every therapist at Another Light Counselling is trained under Aanchal’s supervision with a strong foundation in trauma-oriented, compassionate, and scientifically grounded practice.
5. Healing Designed for Your Body, Not Just Your Story
Because trauma lives in your sensations, impulses, patterns, and survival strategies; not just the episodes you can narrate.
What Trauma Therapy Actually Feels Like
Not like a venting session.
Not like a checklist of coping skills.
Trauma therapy often feels like:
- finally understanding why you freeze in conflict
- realising your reactions were once your protections
- learning how your body learned fear
- reclaiming parts of you that went unheard
- building a relationship with yourself that doesn’t feel like walking on eggshells
It’s internal, quiet, raw, and gradual but profoundly freeing.
Because Healing Shouldn’t Feel Like Performing
Trauma therapy is for people who have carried too much for too long: memories, secrets, losses, responsibilities, guilt, expectations, and stories no one ever asked to hear.
If talk therapy helped you understand your pain, trauma therapy helps you walk out of it.
And if you’re ready to step into that journey with depth, nuance, gentleness, and expertise; you deserve a space that knows how to hold all of it.
Start Your Trauma Healing Journey
- Another Light Counselling Website: https://www.another-light.com
- Book a Session on WhatsApp: https://wa.me/918879260310
