The world can be loud. Sometimes, unbearably so. Amid all that noise, what we often miss is simple: someone who truly listens.

Listening Room is a sanctuary for those moments when you’re not seeking quick fixes, but rather the experience of being truly seen and heard. It welcomes your pauses, your unfinished thoughts, and your quiet ache. Here, listening is not just a service—it is a heartfelt ritual.
A listening that makes room for healing, balance, and new beginnings.

Who sits with you here

Hi, I’m Surbhi, an integrative mental health therapist, researcher, educator and a mother.
I understand the quiet ache of disconnection and the silent strain of always needing to hold it all together. The Listening Room was born from that lived terrain. Not just from classrooms and supervision, but from the trauma held in stillness and grief too heavy to name.
Now, I walk alongside young adults and women, especially working mothers, navigating the quiet moments when identities begin to blur and the self feels distant. When the mind runs loud, and sleep comes late.
When guilt lingers and shame whispers, “Am I enough?”
When grief is silent, and the body holds what the heart won’t say.
When days feel hollow and the future distant.
Techniques can support the process, but it’s presence that transforms it. I don’t offer quick fixes or ready-made answers. I stay with the questions, steadily, patiently, until something within begins to take shape. I don’t promise dramatic breakthroughs, only something quieter and rarer: a space that listens until you hear yourself again.

Therapeutic Specialisations

Credentials & Therapeutic Approach

Surbhi’s work is integrative and grounded in evidence-based modalities and supported by ongoing training across diverse disciplines.

What we hold here

Not every kind of support begins with a diagnosis.
Sometimes, it begins with someone who listens — gently, fully, without agenda.

A room with a rhythm

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Because healing begins with being heard — truly, quietly, without interruption.
We chose our name not just for how it sounds, but for what it holds.
A room suggests safety, a space that asks nothing but your presence. Not a hallway to rush through or a stage to perform on, but a pause. A place that allows you to just be natural.
And listening is more than hearing. It’s a kind of holding — soft, steady, without an agenda. In a world that speaks over silence, we wanted to build a space that listens you back into yourself.
We believe listening — real, human, unhurried — is a kind of return.
This room isn’t about fixing, it’s about feeling.
Not performance, but presence.
Not answers, but arrival.

Surbhi Arora

Surbhi Arora is an integrative mental health therapist, researcher, educator and mother of two adolescents. She specialises in supporting young adults, adolescents and career-driven young mothers navigating stress, burnout, emotional overwhelm, identity loss and life transitions. Surbhi’s approach encompasses the whole person, integrating the psychological, emotional, physiological and spiritual dimensions to foster lasting wellbeing beyond mere symptom relief.
With over 17 years of multidisciplinary experience spanning psychology, education, and health, Surbhi’s career began as a nutritionist and later evolved into a faculty member at Singapore Management University. Her firsthand experience supporting young students facing academic and personal pressures, combined with her own journey as a parent navigating Singapore’s competitive education system, deepened her insight into the often-invisible struggles young people endure, inspiring her transition to mental health counselling.
Surbhi holds a Master’s degree in Developmental Psychology from NTU, a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology (CAE, SAC-recognized), along with certifications in various evidence-based therapeutic modalities. In addition, Surbhi is certified in Breakthrough Coaching through Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and Lifestyle and Wellness Coaching from Harvard Medical School’s Executive Education program, which reflects her deep commitment to mind-body integration and holistic well-being.
As the founder of Listening Room, Surbhi offers therapy, group facilitation, and workshops grounded in empathy, evidence, and deep presence. Outside her therapeutic work, Surbhi has contributed to research in both psychology and health. Her calm, non-judgmental space invites clients to slow down, reflect and reconnect with their inner selves. She is currently affiliated with several organisations based in Singapore and actively contributes through research, volunteering, and pro bono work with the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) and other non-profits.

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