I’ve always felt drawn to using whatever privilege I have responsibly, to help lift up the people around me. Early on in life, I witnessed how those around me struggled to access proper support for life’s challenges, and that stayed with me. Soon into my training, I became aware of the systemic and societal barriers that prevented people from finding good quality support when they needed it.

Learning from the dedication of teachers and mentors I looked up to, combined with my own experience of what a good therapist can do, helped me understand the real impact that therapeutic work can have on someone’s life. That’s been my calling ever since.

What excites me about my work as a therapist is witnessing the trust, vulnerability, and strength that my clients bring with them. It’s always inspiring to be part of their journeys.

Watching someone move from feeling stuck, helpless, or unseen to finding their own path for what they’re going through is a humbling privilege. I especially love the moments when a client starts trusting their own judgment again, rather than looking for the “right” answer. That shift from dependence to self-leadership is what keeps this work exciting for me, session after session.

I hope clients leave feeling genuinely heard and understood. Not diagnosed, not fixed, just understood.

I want them to have a clearer sense of what therapy will actually feel like: collaborative rather than clinical, where their traits and coping strategies aren’t felt as problems to eliminate. Even if we haven’t gotten far into the “content” of what brought them in, I hope they walk away with a sense of safety.

If you’re thinking about seeking counselling, therapy isn’t only for crisis, and it isn’t about being “fixed.” You don’t need to have your problem figured out, or be in a state of emergency, to justify coming in.

What I can offer is respect and safety: whatever you’re going through will be understood, not pathologised. You also have the right to question, push back, or end the work if it isn’t serving you. Therapy is collaborative, and you will always remain the expert on your own life.

The relationship I hope to build with a client rests on safety, collaboration, and curiosity.

Safety, because it’s important to build the comfort needed to show up as we are. Collaboration, because I aspire to walk alongside a client rather than advise them. I bring frameworks and directions, they bring the lived knowledge of their own life. And curiosity, in both directions: I stay non-judgmental toward whatever my clients bring into the space, and I try to help them extend that same curiosity and openness toward themselves.

Working with a diverse set of clients: Indian clients, clients abroad, leaders and founders, neurodivergent clients, has taught me that therapy has to be intersectional and custom, never one-size-fits-all.

The same struggle - anxiety, burnout, relationship conflict, can appear similar, but stem from how the client exists in their society, culture, family, workplace, or how their nervous system fits their environment.

Some strengths I value in myself as a counsellor: I try to stay well-read and genuinely curious about my clients’ lives, rather than fitting them into a framework I already have in mind. I bring warmth and acceptance into the room, and I’m a big believer in humor as part of therapy. It can hold space for something serious without flattening it, and it often builds trust faster than solemnity does.

I find a lot of joy and fulfilment in composing music across different genres, and it’s one of the few moments where I get to be purely creative without needing an outcome. I also love to cook, and my friends will tell you they’ve often been willing (if slightly nervous) guinea pigs for my culinary experiments.

I use Internal Family Systems, an approach based on the idea that we’re all made up of different parts, not just one fixed self.

Our tricky thoughts and behaviour patterns, like perfectionism, avoidance, or people-pleasing, aren’t flaws, they’re parts of us that developed for a reason, often to protect ourselves a long time ago. They are often misunderstood, and my work is helping you understand and heal these parts rather than judging or forcing them away.

I also practice ACT, which helps you live a life in accordance to your values, and work with difficult thoughts and feelings.

My lens across work with queer and trans folks stays non-pathologizing, intersectional, and empowering. I focus on the fit between a client and the systems around them (family, workplace, relationships, healthcare, wider society) rather than treating identity or its challenges as symptoms.

This means staying aware of how a client’s struggles are shaped by systemic and societal beliefs, political climates, and living environments, while holding those systems accountable and allowing the client to prioritise building community, pride and self-empowerment over the pressure to change and fit the systems around them.