Sonali Gupta is one of India’s leading clinical psychotherapists with two decades of experience. She works with young adults, artists, couples, and corporates to enhance their emotional well-being. She works at the intersection of relationships, grief, anxiety, and compassion. She works as a consultant with Spotify India on Project Pause which focuses on mental health.
Sonali was awarded the Elle Mental Health Expert Award for 2023. She won the Cosmopolitan Mental Health Advocate for the year 2023-2024. Sonali writes a fortnightly column for the national daily Hindustan Times called ‘Adulting sucks’ and for Mint Lounge called ‘Heart of the Matter’.
With over 1 lakh subscribers, her YouTube channel “Mental Health with Sonali’ is one of, if not the, largest for a mental health professional in India. Sonali’s work and expertise has been recognised by mainstream media. She is also deeply loved and respected within the mental health community.
Her first book Anxiety: Overcome It and Live without Fear was released in May 2020 by HarperCollins. A Suitable Agency is representing her second book, You will be alright: A guide to navigating Grief, published by Penguin Random House, that was released on 14th October 2024. Sonali fits this often-taboo subject into an Indian context. She addresses all the broad contours of grief as it occurs in our daily lives–from the death of a loved one, to job losses, betrayals of friendship, miscarriages, the decline of parents’ health, and more—and her sensitive and practical advice will be of help to all those who are grieving or caring for those who are.