Premarital Counseling & Couples Therapy

For couples seeking premarital counseling, I utilize the structured prepare/enrich assessment to guide time limited sessions. For couples therapy or discernment counseling, I have specialty training in Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT), Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, and the Gottman Method for couples. I have extensive education and experience working with couples who are struggling with emotional disconnection, high conflict interactions, rebuilding trust after infidelity, communication issues, parenting differences, attachment ruptures, and sexual disorders and sexual preferences/discrepancy desires. Since starting my private practice, I have worked with a large volume of interracial, intercultural, and historically excluded couples. To learn more about how I work with couples, please reference my couples therapy FAQs page.

Individual Therapy

I have provided individual therapy primarily to adults ages 18 and older specifically in community mental health, college counseling, and outpatient settings. In particular, I enjoy working with adults around issues of family dynamics and relationships, first and second generation immigration issues, and sociocultural identity issues.

My therapeutic approach draws from psychodynamic, cultural contextual, transactional analysis, humanistic/existential, and cognitive-behavioral models. Being an integrative practitioner allows me to be emotionally attune and exploratory to clients who want a more dynamic and insight oriented therapy and active in structured problem solving and skill development for clients who want a more short term or solution focused approached. I enjoy working with clients who are motivated to learn about themselves, regardless of what particular issues bring them to therapy. I emphasize utilizing a client’s unique background, values, and strengths to help in the change process.

I aim to practice cultural humility, even with clients who share my core identities, and aim to make psychotherapy as inclusive as possible. I am deeply committed to providing culturally curious and sensitive treatment to every person or couple I work with and believe this is important for any type of psychotherapy to be effective. To learn more about starting therapy, please reference my individual therapy FAQs page.

Group Therapy

I have over 12 years of experience as a group therapist and believe group to an exponentially healing modality of treatment for multiple issues in the interpersonal domain. Currently, I am recruiting for a South Asian women’s support and process group in addition to a group for mothers who want a space to process difficulties with affect regulation, parenting, and cycles of shame and guilt tied to any dimension of being a parent.