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AKANKSHA MADAN
Email: akanksha@thrivebeyondtraumacounseling.com
Owner/Clinical Director of Thrive Beyond Trauma Counseling
“I help individuals and couples heal trauma, betrayal, and behavioral addictions through a blend of neuroscience, nervous-system work, and deeply relational therapy. My approach balances clinical precision with human warmth: Guiding clients toward safety, clarity, and lasting internal change.”
Akanksha is a trauma and relationship-healing specialist who helps clients rebuild safety, connection, and internal stability after painful, overwhelming, or life-altering experiences. Her work blends clinical precision with deep attunement, honoring both the emotional and physiological impact of trauma.
She integrates talk therapy with EMDR, clinical hypnotherapy, breathwork, somatic and nervous-system regulation, and mind–body integration to help clients access deeper layers of healing beyond insight alone.
*Healing requires both compassion and clinical clarity — And both are central to Akanksha’s approach.*
Akanksha's Four Pillars of Specialization
Akanksha’s clinical work is grounded in a four-part integrative model designed to support every layer of betrayal trauma, addiction recovery, relational repair, and nervous-system healing.
1. Partner Betrayal Trauma
— APSATS MPTM (Medical Model of Trauma)
Akanksha is extensively trained in the APSATS Multidimensional Partner Trauma Model (MPTM) — A framework that understands betrayal trauma through a medical, neurobiological, and trauma-informed lens rather than pathology, blame, or codependency.
- Male partner betrayal trauma
- Female partner betrayal trauma
- Partners navigating secrecy, addiction, chronic distrust, and relational rupture
APSATS MPTM emphasizes safety, stabilization, validation, clarity, and truth-telling, empowering partners to understand their trauma responses and rebuild internal security.
*Betrayal trauma is real trauma — And deserves trauma-informed, partner-centered care.*
2. Behavioral & Process Addictions
— CSAT + CMAT
Akanksha is trained as both a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT) and a Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist (CMAT).
- Porn & sex addiction
- Love and relationship addiction
- Food addiction
- Phone & technology addiction
- Attachment-driven compulsions
- Relational/emotional dependency cycles
Her work helps individuals reduce shame, develop accountability, understand compulsive patterns, and reconnect with grounded identity and values.
*Addiction recovery must be shame-reducing, structured, and trauma-informed — Never blaming or minimizing.*
3. Couples Healing, Disclosure, & Intimacy Repair
Akanksha supports couples through the full process of healing after betrayal and addiction.
- ERCEM (Early Recovery Couples Empathy Model)
- Gottman Method
- APSATS MPTM
- The 30-Task Model (Carnes)
- Prepare for and engage in therapeutic disclosure
- Process polygraph results safely and ethically
- Understand trauma responses on both sides
- Restore emotional safety and connection
- Rebuild intimacy and trust
*Couples can heal — With safety, structure, honesty, and trauma-informed support.*
4. Mind–Body & Somatic Integration
Akanksha believes healing requires more than insight — The body must be involved.
- Breathwork
- Clinical hypnotherapy
- Somatic & nervous-system regulation
- Body-based stabilization
- Mind–body alignment practices
*The body remembers — And when the body heals, the mind follows.*
Who she helps
- Partners navigating betrayal trauma
- healing from porn/sex addiction
- Clients with love, relationship, food, or digital addictions
- Couples rebuilding after rupture
- Men’s issues
- Trauma, crises, and emotional overwhelm
- Anxiety, depression, shame
- Relationship/attachment wounds
*Adults and couples seeking lasting healing rooted in safety, clarity, and embodiment.*
Education, Credentials & Memberships
- MA, Mental Health Counseling — South University
- MS, Counseling & Psychotherapy — Nagaland University
- BA, Psychology — Delhi University
- Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC (#6401223328)
- CSAT — IITAP
- CMAT
- CCPS — APSATS
- Gottman Method Levels 1 & 2
- EMDR Trained — EMDRIA-Approved Program
- Certified in Clinical Hypnotherapy & Breathwork
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If you are in crisis or experiencing an emergency, please call 911 or your local emergency services, or visit the nearest emergency room.
Thrive Beyond Trauma Counseling does not provide crisis or emergency services.