Diya Mandal

I’m currently working as a Psychosexual Therapist at a Delhi-based mental health organization, where I work with individuals and couples dealing with sexual and relationship concerns. A big part of my work involves understanding how anxiety, unresolved conflicts, attachment patterns, and stress start influencing intimacy and sexual functioning over time. In sessions, I mainly use CBT and Sensate Focus Therapy. With CBT, I work on performance anxiety, rigid beliefs, avoidance patterns, and the psychological factors that show up as sexual difficulties. Through Sensate Focus, I help couples reduce pressure, rebuild comfort with physical closeness, and reconnect emotionally. I also look at early developmental experiences, including childhood dependency patterns, drive conflicts, and psychosexual stages of development by Freud, to understand how formative dynamics may still be shaping adult relationships and sexual expression.