Trupti Oak-Natekar

A marketeer by profession with more than a decade’s experience as of 2024, across varied industries like lifestyle, banking and insurance and then a baker by profession churning out cakes and cupcakes for a living during the passion sabbatical of my career, becoming a parent 8 years back to our son Vivaan opened new doors of a career to me. That of being a ‘Behavioural Counsellor’. Wanting to be a good parent and an efficient communicator pushed me towards getting certified as a Counsellor in both REBT (Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy) & Robert Carkhuff’s Model of Counselling, from Heart to Heart Institute of Human Technology, Mumbai. I am also a diploma holder in Professional Sports Psychology from KEW Academy and Neuroscience for Parents from Gregory Caseman Brain Academy. I have further taken a certification course in Gender and Sexuality (Studying Diversity and Inclusion) from the University of Pittsburgh. My professional certifications and learnings through my practice have put me in a unique position to help people who are coping with challenges in their relationships, parenting journeys, sports motivation and sexuality. Over the last 8 years have counselled numerous couples, parents and kids at getting better at communicating with each other. My professional expertise lies towards helping parents get better at “parenting” and getting kids to be better at “being just kids” . It’s fulfilling for me when I help create positive bridges between parents and their children and helping strengthen the family fabric. In my professional journey so far, I must have helped more than a 100 couples & their kids find their parenting sweet spots! My professional goal as a counsellor is to encourage the concept of ‘Balanced Parenting’ in sync with encouraging open and easy communication between parents & their kids. Through one-on-one counselling (physical meetings and over video) I have counselled numerous couples, clients from the LGBTQIA community, parents facing parenting challenges and helped them navigate their challenges. My professional passion lies towards helping individuals, couples, teenagers, parents understand the simplicity of life and to accept a much stronger & resilient self-regulation to achieve the EMOTIONAL & MENTAL happiness and stability I have also Co-Founded a company called “Pathfinders – A Parenting Journey” where we have created special workshops on subjects like ‘Sex Education for Parents & Children’, ‘Understanding Diversity & Equality at home and in school’, ‘Understanding the Hormones Driven Adolescent World of Teens’ & ‘Managing Tantrums & Meltdowns’. Through ‘Pathfinders’ we work very closely with schools and conduct workshops for both parents and kids through groups and also through individual consulting. Being a professional badminton player at the club level keeps me physically & mentally fit in this mad world of overzealous parents, especially tiger, helicopter & snow ploughing moms and dads pulling their weight too ! I am also an Internationally certified Career Counsellor helping students and professionals find their North Star not only basis their academics but also considering their personality, passion, and interests. AI-based 5-dimensional Career Assessment test covers all aspects of carefully analyzing the individual's interest & aptitude to give an apt career choice with comprehensive research along with my personal counselling session. In the last 8 years of working as a counsellor , it has been an absolute honour to be able to support many students and their parents understand the real need of counselling and make the challenges of life easy to navigate.