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I work with individuals and couples. I offer a warm approach where you can feel seen and held in our work. I help shine a light on what’s been silenced, with care, warmth, and soulful insight.

I know beginning therapy can be a daunting task, to make things easier, I offer a free 15 minute phone call to get to know each other.

Our Services

BIPOC therapist in California helping clients build boundaries and heal from intergenerational patterns.

Individual Counseling

A space for you to unearth what's buried—identity, cultural shame, emotional numbness, burnout—and come home to yourself. Together we’re explore the layers: cultural, ancestral, emotional that shape who you are and who you’re becoming.

BIPOC therapist in California helping clients build boundaries and heal from intergenerational patterns.

Couples Counseling

For couples wanting to feel seen, heard, and held—whether you're navigating family pressures, miscommunication, or growing apart. We’ll work toward deeper connection, curiosity, and healing together.

Group Counseling

An online support group for those feel torn between worlds or versions of themselves. Together, we’ll explore how family expectations and cultural pressures, dynamics shape identity. We will work on setting boundaries within families, and live more authentically.

BIPOC therapist in California helping clients build boundaries and heal from intergenerational patterns.

FAQs

  • I’m based in Newport Beach, CA.
    For those navigating full lives or living farther away, I offer secure online sessions to meet you where you are. *Services available to CA residents only.

  • We’ll start with a free phone consult to get a sense of what’s stirring beneath the surface.
    If we feel aligned, I’ll hold space for your story in 50-minute sessions.

  • I don’t work with insurance directly. But if you have out-of-network benefits, I can provide super bills for reimbursement. This keeps our work private, sacred, and not dictated by diagnosis codes or managed care.

  • I work with high-achieving individuals who are navigating identity, family wounds, intergenerational trauma, and the ache of feeling like you don’t fully belong in either world. If you’re wrestling with the tension between who you’ve been told to be and who you truly are—you’re in the right place.

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“Sakthi has been so helpful and encouraging in my life. Our work together has been very inspiring, by helping me to see myself clearly.”

— Priya B., CLIENT

Therapist in Orange County, California, offering online therapy for South Asians and immigrant communities.