About Aakanksha
Aakanksha Punj is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck despite appearing successful. She draws on six years of clinical experience to guide clients through stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, trauma, and career pressures. Her background as a former Division I athlete and an immigrant informs how she understands performance pressure and major life transitions.
Her style is warm, collaborative, and direct. Sessions focus on practical steps and honest conversation.
Background and approach
She aims to create room for feeling heard while also working toward change. In the therapy room she helps people identify patterns that keep them stuck and process past experiences that still affect daily life. She teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving day-to-day coping.
Work often includes rebuilding a sense of self and steadying routines that support longer-term progress. She tailors evidence-based therapeutic techniques to each person’s needs instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan. That means the work may include skill practice, talking through difficult memories, and experimenting with new behaviors between sessions.
The goal is lasting change rather than short-term symptom control. Aakanksha practices in Colorado and conducts sessions in English. Her office focus covers stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and career challenges, along with a range of related concerns such as adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and multicultural matters.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Aakanksha uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's needs. One common approach focuses on building emotion regulation and coping skills through step-by-step practice. That kind of work helps with daily anxiety, stress, and managing urges related to addiction.Another key strand centers on processing past experiences and patterns that keep people stuck. This involves talking through difficult memories, identifying unhelpful patterns, and trying out different ways of responding in everyday life. These methods can support recovery from trauma and reduce shame or guilt that affects relationships and work.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they adapt techniques over time so sessions fit the client's needs and timelines.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical options. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when that helps progress. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, and quick skill reminders between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work and life demands.
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What this therapist works with
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- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Multicultural concerns
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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