Keerthana Srinivasan (she/her)

I have a 40 hour training in interventions for sexual assault. I worked as a counselor - STARS outpatient department (Sexual Trauma Awareness and Recovery Services). Trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy along with Nonviolent Communication skills. I've helped adult and teen survivors of multiple gender identities and sexual orientations process their trauma in a safe way and learn coping skills.

I have a 40 hour training in domestic violence interventions. Ive worked with multiple survivors and supported them with making decisions to leave or stay and helped them transition. I also help Identify patterns of abuse, reframe thoughts and feelings, coparenting plans and most importantly rebuild self-esteem.

anxiety is something I personally struggled with which led me to therapy. Together we will discover sources and triggers for anxiety and work on coping skills and unlearning habits that perpetuate anxiety in your daily life. I like using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as well as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for different coping techniques. I will personalise activities and sessions that will help you deal with your anxiety.

Mindfulness is essentially awareness of the present situation. Mindfulness may not be for everyone and we can explore other methods that better suit you. I like to start my session with a mindfulness activity to bring awareness into the present moment, move into addressing immediate needs, process a situation, talk through thoughts, feelings and reactions and end my session with a progressive muscle relaxation technique. Clients have reported an increased sense of awareness and positivity.

I use the feelings and needs inventory from DBT, it helps clients verbalise their emotions as well as reflect. I also like to use worksheets of different coping skills - for example we may talk about a situation and rate your feelings, thoughts and actions and work on what changes you would like to make if a similar situation came up. We would refer to the coping skills from DBT for ideas.

I use models from CBT for anxiety in identifying triggers, negative thoughts and coping. Sometimes my client and I will work on a chronological trauma chart (helps to keep tract of progress, reflect on unhealthy coping patterns etc). I also like to use artful coping such as making affirmation stones, ‘1 day 1 activity’ jar (to help deal with depressive thoughts) and using expressive art.