About
Life is a struggle sometimes.
“What if?” “Should I?” “Will I ever?”
There are so many standards and expectations. Standards of looks, money, being the right weight, and being perfect in education, at home, and as a professional.
If you are looking for a calm and peaceful place to share your story, your struggle and your fears with sincere understanding, then I may be the therapist for you.
How I can help.
Approaching your issues of pain, sorrow, or grief with a compassionate, safe and healing therapist is essential to moving through and forward. I help foster that trustworthy therapeutic relationship based on values of integrity, honesty and empathy.
As your therapist, I will help you develop new life skills and perspectives, so you can free yourself of habitual patterns of anxiety, depression and self-criticism. I will help guide you. Together, we will look out for that inner critic, that negative self-talk and break through those limiting beliefs.
When you are unsure of your answers to life or you are feeling helpless, stuck in your life and lost, you will learn to take responsibility and go forward. As your therapist, I will help facilitate and foster that dialogue to identify the goals for the type of life you would like to live.
My mission…
… is to create a very encouraging, healing and thriving therapy practice where I help professional women and men achieve goals in their lives of growth and potential leading to a higher quality of life. Quality includes improved relationships with partners – and family – and children – and grandchildren – or, at a minimum, a better understanding of these relationships.
We can work on being able to express feelings, thoughts and emotions better and to develop insight into life. We want those “ah-ha” moments about how your life impacts others’ lives. I would like to help you to better regulate your emotions and gain stability.
Therapy works!
I’m a strong believer in choice and the empowering ability to recognize consequences of choice.
Coping with life through unhealthy relationships with food, shopping and other activities doesn’t work!
You end up feeling worse afterwards, and the problems are still there. Therapy will help examine your thoughts about change, then deal with unhealthy behaviors while forming a toolbox of positive and promoting coping skills that are unique to you.
Who should go to therapy? Anyone!
About Me
I practice healing and look at my work as bringing harmony to the world. I love what I do and impart.
Background
My bachelor’s degree is from the University of Connecticut (Go Huskies!) in Psychology. Subsequently, I was employed in an analytical chemistry laboratory engaged in Diabetes Research at the Yale School of Medicine before deciding to return for advanced study.
Through volunteer work, I realized I wanted to directly have an impact on others’ lives. I then studied for and received my master’s degree from Central Connecticut State University in Psychology as well as an Advanced Certificate in Counseling.
Additionally, I have 12 years of experience working at a non-profit mental health and substance abuse agency where I learned and applied my education and developed many of my skills and practices in crisis intervention, prevention, group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and providing psychosocial evaluations and individual therapy.
On a personal level
My husband and I live in Manchester, Connecticut, with our two cats and a friendly dog (our “fur babies”). I am a child of immigrants from India. I grew up with my father, an engineer, and my mother, who worked in banking and insurance.
I love yoga, cooking and nutrition, walking, meditations, and biking.