My Services and Approach
Psychoeducation, Somatic Work, Grounding, Parts Work, Creative Exercises, Metaphors, Humour, Games, or Practical Support.
I have fewer rules about what therapy is “supposed” to look like. What matters most to me is whether therapy feels meaningful, ethical, collaborative, and genuinely useful to you.
Does this sound like you?
Experienced childhood trauma, relational trauma, grief, PTSD, or complex trauma.
South Asians who do not have to explain every cultural detail before being understood.
Couple who still love each other, but they no longer know how to reach one another.
Sometimes therapy looks like processing a traumatic memory
Questions You May Be Asking Before Starting Therapy
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You do not need to arrive with the perfect words.
Many clients begin with, “I do not know where to start.” We can start there. Part of my role is helping you slow things down, organize what feels overwhelming, and notice what may be asking for attention. -
Listening is important, but my approach is active and engaged.
I may ask deeper questions, reflect patterns, offer psychoeducation, introduce practical tools, or gently challenge something that may be holding you back. You will not be expected to find every answer alone. -
My role is not to judge you.
You may bring anger, shame, grief, confusion, regret, resentment, fear, or thoughts you have never said out loud. We will approach them with curiosity and accountability rather than shame. -
That experience matters.
Sometimes the therapist was not the right fit. Sometimes the approach stayed too surface-level. Sometimes you were not ready, or the space did not feel safe enough.
We can talk openly about what did and did not work before so that we can approach therapy differently. -
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You are not required to disclose everything in the first session. Trauma work should not feel rushed or forced. We begin by building safety, understanding your current needs, and deciding together what feels manageable. -
Sometimes I may offer guidance, education, or practical options, but therapy is not about me making your decisions for you.
My goal is to help you hear yourself more clearly, understand your patterns, and make choices that feel aligned with who you are. -
Some clients feel relief after the first session because they have finally shared what they have been carrying. Deeper change usually takes time.
Therapy is not a magic wand. Showing up matters, but so does reflecting, practising, and trying new responses outside of the therapy room.
I often compare it to attending school: simply sitting in the classroom is not the same as learning. Growth comes from participation, curiosity, and being willing to practise what you are discovering. -
You do not need to change everything at once.
Therapy can begin with understanding. Sometimes the first step is simply noticing a pattern without judging yourself for it. Change becomes more possible when it feels safe, realistic, and connected to your own goals. -
A good therapeutic fit often feels like being respected, understood, and appropriately challenged.
You should feel able to ask questions, offer feedback, disagree with me, and talk openly about what is or is not helping. Therapy should feel collaborative, not hierarchical.
We May Explore
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All of my work is grounded in a trauma-informed framework that prioritizes emotional safety, choice, trust, collaboration, and nervous system awareness.
Trauma work does not mean immediately revisiting the most painful parts of your story. We begin by building stability, understanding your responses, and developing enough internal safety to explore difficult experiences without overwhelming you.
You remain in control of the pace and direction of the work. -
IFS-informed therapy helps us understand the different “parts” of you that may hold conflicting emotions, needs, or protective roles.
You may have a part that criticizes you, a part that avoids vulnerability, a part that overfunctions, or a part that works hard to keep everyone happy. Rather than judging or trying to eliminate these responses, we become curious about what they are protecting.
This work can support greater self-compassion, emotional clarity, and a more integrated relationship with yourself. -
CBT helps identify the thoughts, assumptions, and core beliefs that influence emotions and behaviour.
I use CBT to support concerns such as anxiety, depression, perfectionism, shame, rumination, and self-criticism. The work is not limited to replacing “negative thoughts” with positive ones. We look more deeply at where beliefs came from, how they developed, and whether they continue to reflect your present reality.
CBT can offer both insight and practical strategies for creating meaningful change. -
DBT-informed work offers practical tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, boundary-setting, and communication.
These skills can be especially helpful when emotions feel intense, relationships become overwhelming, or you find yourself reacting in ways you later regret.
The goal is not to suppress emotions, but to help you move through them with more awareness, choice, and stability. -
ACT supports you in changing your relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions rather than becoming trapped in a constant struggle against them.
This approach can be helpful for anxiety, shame, trauma recovery, identity concerns, and life transitions. Together, we clarify what matters to you and explore how to move toward a meaningful, values-aligned life, even when discomfort is present. -
Trauma and chronic stress do not only live in our thoughts. They are often experienced through the body as tension, restlessness, numbness, shutdown, panic, exhaustion, or hypervigilance.
Somatic therapy helps you become more aware of these responses and develop ways to support regulation, grounding, and a greater sense of safety within your body.
This may include breathing, movement, sensory grounding, orienting, or other body-based practices. I often complete these exercises alongside clients so that the work feels supported rather than prescribed. -
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is an evidence-based trauma therapy that supports the processing of distressing memories and unresolved experiences.
EMDR may help reduce the emotional intensity attached to traumatic memories, relational wounds, negative beliefs, and present-day triggers. It can often support processing without requiring you to repeatedly describe every detail of what happened.
The work is carefully prepared, paced, and adapted according to your stability and readiness. -
Brainspotting is a brain-body approach that works with the connection between visual focus, emotional experience, and the nervous system.
It may be helpful for trauma, emotional blocks, performance anxiety, grief, and experiences that feel difficult to access through conversation alone.
Brainspotting allows space for deeper processing while respecting the body’s own pace and capacity for healing. -
Attachment-based therapy explores how early relationships may have shaped your expectations of love, safety, trust, conflict, and closeness.
These patterns can appear in adult relationships as fear of abandonment, emotional withdrawal, people-pleasing, difficulty trusting, or feeling responsible for other people’s emotions.
Relational work helps you understand these patterns while developing greater emotional safety, authenticity, and capacity for secure connection. -
EFT focuses on the emotions and attachment needs beneath conflict, disconnection, and protective behaviours.
In both individual and couples therapy, EFT helps uncover what may be underneath anger, defensiveness, criticism, or withdrawal. This approach supports greater emotional awareness and helps people communicate their needs in ways that invite connection rather than deepen distance. -
My approach to couples therapy integrates Gottman-informed interventions, Emotionally Focused Therapy, attachment theory, and trauma-informed care.
Rather than focusing only on communication techniques or determining who is right, we look at the cycle that has developed between you.
We may explore:
What happens beneath recurring arguments
How each partner responds to hurt or disconnection
The fears and attachment needs underneath conflict
Patterns of pursuit, withdrawal, defensiveness, or shutdown
How trust has been damaged
What meaningful repair could look like
The goal is to help partners move from reacting to one another toward understanding, accountability, emotional safety, and deeper connection. -
Narrative therapy explores the stories you have learned about yourself through family, culture, trauma, relationships, and social expectations.
You may have come to believe that you are too sensitive, difficult, selfish, weak, or responsible for everyone else. Together, we examine how these stories were formed and whether they truly reflect who you are.
This approach can be especially meaningful for identity work, grief, cultural trauma, intergenerational patterns, and reclaiming personal agency. -
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes strengths, possibilities, and practical movement toward change.
It can be helpful when you are facing a specific decision, short-term concern, transition, or clearly defined goal. Rather than focusing only on the problem, we identify what is already working, what resources you have, and what a realistic next step may look like.
This approach can be used on its own or alongside deeper trauma and relational work.
