Satveer Kler (any pronouns)

PhD
Accepting Clients

Dr. Satveer Kler (name pronounced sath-veer) is a QTBIPOC, anti-colonial psychologist specializing in intergenerational trauma and anxiety.

Psychologist in California
Supervised by Dr. Matt Henninger (PSY 35452)

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples

About My Clients

Satveer specializes in working with BIPOC and QTBIPOC individuals, adult children of immigrants, academics and graduate students, neurodivergent folks, intellectualizers / people who have been told they are “highly self-aware” by past therapists, individuals with complicated familial relationships, artists/writers/poets. Satveer’s clinical areas of expertise include intergenerational trauma, anxiety, grief, identity exploration, alcohol use, body image, perfectionism, and shame.

My Background and Approach

Satveer practices from liberation psychology, relational psychodynamic, narrative therapy, anti-carceral/abolitionist, and anti-oppressive approaches. Satveer believes in horizontal, rather than vertical, relationships where therapy is a space where your ancestral and cultural wisdom, embodied knowledge, strengths, lived experiences, values, beliefs, relationships to yourself/others/the world, and emotions will be attended to with earnestness and collaboration. Together, we will find the words for your story even if they initially feel distant. Together, we will imagine and dream new ways of being in relation to yourself, others, the world, systems of oppression, time, space, and healing, and new ways of being in relation to hope, liberation, and freedom.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I take a firm stance on being anti-genocide, anti-colonialism, and anti-racist. I combat the western focus in the mental health field by centering values and beliefs of the Global majority (e.g., BIPOC individuals).

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Culturally Sensitive Therapy Psychodynamic Therapy
Other Techniques
  • Addiction Counseling
  • Attachment Theory
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • Depth Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Experiential Therapy
  • Feminist Therapy
  • Harm Reduction Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Relational Therapy
  • Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
  • Person-Centered (Rogerian)
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Anxiety Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
Other Issues
  • Addiction
  • ADHD Therapists
  • Aging Concerns
  • Anger Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Career Counseling
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Family Conflict
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • Immigration/Acculturation
  • Insomnia
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Men's Issues
  • Polyamorous and Open Relationships
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Racial Identity
  • Relationship Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Sexual Abuse or Assault
  • Sexual Problems
  • Spirituality
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
  • Women's Issues
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Out of Network
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Sikhism

At A Glance

  • Experience: 7 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $75 - 162/session

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