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About My Clients
I help people who struggle with depression, relationship issues, trauma, grief, and creative blocks. An additional focus of my practice centers around issues such as race-related stress, acculturation challenges, and bicultural identity. I specialize in working with immigrants and children of immigrants, people navigating major life transitions, and creatives and artists. You may long for a space that can lead to deeper understanding and real transformation, not just short-term coping.
My Background and Approach
My approach is depth-oriented, relational, and culturally attuned. I believe that lasting change happens in the context of a trusting relationship with an emotionally attuned therapist, who can witness your experience with care and curiosity, and help you make meaning of what’s been difficult to face alone. It’s a collaborative, unfolding process of slowing down, listening closely to what’s been buried or overlooked, and beginning to relate to your experiences and yourself in a new way. My work is grounded in a culturally sensitive, psychodynamic approach; this approach honors your unique inner life while also recognizing the profound effects of societal and systemic forces on our psyches. Psychodynamic therapy’s ability to help create long-lasting change is supported by current research in neuroscience and I always personalize my approach to your specific needs.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that change and healing are always possible and that a safe, attuned, empathic relationship is the basis for such change to occur. I bring a multidimensional background into my work as a psychologist. My formal training and professional experience in classical music performance and English literature cultivated a sensitivity to emotion, narrative, and the unsaid, which are all qualities that shape how I listen as a therapist. These artistic practices taught me the power of deep listening, creative expression, and attunement, practices that serve me well as a psychologist. Born in the San Francisco Bay Area to parents who immigrated to the US from India, I learned to navigate the world and relationships in two cultures. Fluent in Bengali while having grown up in California, I understand, both personally and professionally, the complexities of bicultural identity, cultural loss, and the longing to belong.