About Aarti

Aarti has almost 20 years’ experience as a practitioner, lecturer, academic researcher, and trainer within the field of domestic abuse. Aarti’s extensive experience of working with victim-survivors of domestic and sexual abuse and delivering community-based treatment programmes to perpetrators of intimate partner violence enables her to provide professionals with training that is grounded in current research and real-life case studies.

Aarti specialises in working with male victim-survivors of domestic abuse. She also has extensive experience of tackling female genital mutilation, founding Leicester’s first FGM awareness raising campaign, publishing resources for healthcare professionals, co-writing local safeguarding policies for FGM and pioneering innovative in-house risk assessment processes to identify FGM.

Alongside this, Aarti works with local and national organisations to produce academic research on domestic abuse for the purpose of informing evidence-based best practice. Driven by a strong passion for social impact to improve the lives of those who experience abuse, Aarti is passionate about empowering professionals to work effectively and compassionately with survivors.

Alongside being a Taye Facilitator, Aarti is the Founder of PAiPA (Promoting Action in Preventing Abuse) with a particular emphasis on marginalised or disadvantaged communities.

The course was fantastic, Aarti was a really brilliant facilitator, very engaging, knowledgeable and warm-gave everyone space to speak and feel heard.Taye Training Delegate