About Ananya
Ananya Khandelwal is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on stress, anxiety, relationships, eating concerns, self-esteem, and depression. She offers short, clear explanations and practical steps so people can start feeling less overwhelmed. Sessions are offered in English and Hindi and she practices from New York.
Ananya keeps a warm and straightforward style. She listens closely and then suggests concrete tools people can try between sessions. Expect a mix of talking, skill practice, and small experiments aimed at changing daily habits that fuel worry or low mood.
Background and approach
Her background includes training and work in a variety of settings such as hospitals, clinics, independent practice, and non-profits. That range means she has seen many common patterns of stress and mood struggle and knows different ways to respond when things feel stuck.
Ananya often helps people who are dealing with body image and eating concerns, workplace stress, communication problems, isolation or loneliness, and questions about life purpose. She also supports people facing mood disorders, impulsivity, difficulties with self-love, and issues related to narcissism. With three years of clinical experience and the credential of Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Ananya centers practical change.
She works collaboratively to set clear goals and adapts approaches to fit each person’s day-to-day life. If someone wants to start, they complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Two well-known techniques Ananya uses are cognitive behavioral strategies and skills-based behavioral work. Cognitive approaches focus on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life, which can reduce anxious thinking and low mood. Skills-based behavioral work targets habits and routines through small experiments that help with things like sleep, eating patterns, and emotional regulation.Another useful set of tools involves practical coping skills from acceptance and commitment ideas and emotion regulation techniques. These help people make room for difficult feelings while staying connected to the values and activities that matter to them. The therapist will work together with each person to choose which methods feel most helpful and to adjust the plan over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports shorter ongoing work between meetings. The mix of formats gives flexibility while focusing on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Hindi
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