Dr Akshaya ShettyDr Akshaya Shetty
Emotional wellness & relationship coachDubai · Online

You've mastered achieving. Now let's work on being.

1:1 coaching for high-achieving women who look successful from the outside, yet struggle with chronic people-pleasing, self-abandonment and relationship patterns that keep repeating.

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Sessions online · Work at your own pace · No pressure, no scripts

Dr Akshaya Shetty, emotional wellness and relationship coach

In their words · names changed at their request

“I always knew what I should be doing. Akshaya helped me actually feel safe enough to do it.”
SSara · Finance Director
“For the first time in years I said no without a three-paragraph apology. That's the change.”
NNadia · Founder
“The breathwork sounded too simple to matter. It's the reason I sleep through the night now.”
MMeera · Consultant Physician
“She doesn't hand you advice. She asks the question you've been avoiding, kindly.”
RReem · Operations Lead

How I work

Somewhere between medicine and mindset, there's the work that actually changes things.

After two decades in healthcare I kept meeting the same question: why do people know exactly what to do, and still not become who they want to be? My work sits at the intersection of science, psychology and lived practice — mindset, emotional resilience, breathwork and nervous-system regulation.

Mindset & behaviour

We look at the patterns underneath the habits — the beliefs quietly deciding what you accept, tolerate and settle for.

The body comes first

Breathwork, yoga and nervous-system regulation. Insight alone rarely changes behaviour; a regulated body does.

You set the direction

No scripts, no handed-down advice. What we work on, and how fast, is entirely yours to decide.

Support between sessions

Steady accountability between calls — a nudge when you slip, a witness when you follow through.

60–75 minute sessionsBundles of 6 or 10 callsSupport between sessionsFully online

What I help with

“Do you work with someone like me?”

It's the question I'm asked most. So here it is plainly — what my clients most often bring to me.

You're praised for being reliable, and quietly exhausted by it

You over-give in relationships and call it love

You've built an impressive career and can't feel any of it

You keep choosing partners who need managing

You feel guilt every time you rest or say no

You're calm on the outside, in constant overdrive inside

You want boundaries without losing the people you love

Where my work begins: I work with women who are out of active crisis and figuring life out from there. If you're in an unsafe situation or need clinical care, you deserve that support first — and I'll gladly help you find it.

Ways to work with me

Wherever you are, there's a way in.

Start with a conversation, go deeper with 1:1 support, or bring the work to your team.

Free · 20 minutes

Clarity Call

A conversation, not a commitment. You share what's going on, I listen, and I'll tell you honestly whether my work fits.

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Private 1:1 · Online

1:1 Coaching

The core work. Bundles of 6 or 10 sessions, 60–75 minutes each, blending mindset work, emotional resilience and breathwork.

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For organisations

Corporate Wellness

Workshops and programme design on mindfulness, burnout and performance — with evaluation and outcome tracking built in.

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Groups · Online

Breathwork & Resilience

Small-group sessions in breathwork and mind-body integration for teams and individuals who need a reset that lasts.

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Dr Akshaya Shetty seated, portrait

About me

My story

I spent more than twenty years in healthcare — a specialist orthodontist, trained to fix what could be measured. But the thing patients carried into my chair wasn't always in their X-rays.

That question pulled me beyond clinical practice into human behaviour, mindset, emotional resilience, yoga and breathwork. I certified as a coach, and started doing the work I'd been circling for years.

Today I work with women who are excellent on paper and can't feel any of it. It's time for that to change.

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Credentials

Lived experience alone isn't enough.

  • Certified Life Coach — Jay Shetty Certification School
  • BDS / MDS, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction practitioner
  • Breathwork & mind-body integration training
  • Specialist Orthodontist, 20+ years clinical practice

20+

Years in healthcare

5+

Years coaching 1:1

100+

Clients supported

BDS/MDS

Clinical background

Success stories

What women say after working with me.

Names changed at their request. Everything else is theirs.

“I came in wanting a productivity fix. What I got was permission to stop performing. Six months on, my team notices, my husband notices, and most importantly I notice.”
LLayla · Marketing Head
“Akshaya's medical background matters. She never dismissed the physical symptoms I'd been carrying — she explained them, and then we worked with them.”
PPriya · Healthcare Professional
“I'd spent years reading about boundaries. This is the first time I've actually held one, and survived someone being disappointed in me.”
HHana · Product Manager
“The sessions were gentle and completely uncompromising at the same time. She won't let you hide behind being 'fine'.”
RRitu · Entrepreneur

Whenever you're ready

It starts with a conversation, not a commitment.

You don't need to be sure yet — that's what a clarity call is for. Here's exactly what happens.

  1. 1

    Pick a time

    Free and online. No forms to fill in, nothing to prepare.

  2. 2

    We talk

    Share as much or as little as feels comfortable. I'll mostly listen.

  3. 3

    You decide

    I'll tell you honestly whether this fits. Either way, you leave clearer.

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