South Asian Therapy
Therapy for South Asian and South Asian-American Teens, Adults, & Couples
South Asian Therapist in Oakland, San Francisco, & across California
You’ve learned to hold a lot.
I offer culturally responsive, somatic, and parts-based therapy for South Asian and South Asian-American teens, adults, and couples. Many of us grow up navigating conflicting expectations, intergenerational trauma, and the particular grief of belonging to a community that doesn't always have language for what we carry. I hold a liberation and decolonial lens, where together we will go beneath the surface to address root causes, not just symptoms, with close attention to how race, gender, culture, and queer or non-monogamous identities shape your experience.
This is a space where your complexity is centered, not judged.
Does this sound familiar?
You feel the weight of your family's sacrifice in everything you do
Guilt follows every choice that prioritizes yourself
You've never fully belonged — not here, not there
Perfectionism is both your superpower and your prison
Your anxiety sometimes feels inherited, not entirely your own
You hold identities your family doesn't have language for
You love your family, the noise, the food, the closeness, and maybe you're also suffocating a little
You’ve heard boundaries are “healthy”, but in your family, it doesn’t quite translate
You've hit every marker for success and still can't shake the feeling that something essential is missing
I work with South Asian and South Asian-Americans who are:
Immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including third culture adults
Navigating family obligation, guilt, and expectation
Carrying intergenerational or migration trauma, including partition history
Part of diasporic subgroups — African Indian, British Indian, East African Indian
Holding queer, neurodivergent, or non-conforming identities within South Asian family systems
Living between multiple cultures without fully belonging to any
What we can explore together
Perfectionism, overachievement, and "good girl / good son" conditioning
Individuation from family — building your own life without severing connection
Interfaith, intercaste, and intercultural relationships
Shame, body, and sexuality in cultural and religious context
Grief — personal, collective, and inherited
Gender expectations, family roles, and what it means to want something different
Confidence and self-trust outside of approval and achievement
Identity — who you are outside of what your family and culture needed you to be