About Ashwini
Ashwini Gupta is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of experience helping people navigate anxiety, stress, relationship trouble, and major life changes. She practices in California and speaks English, Hindi, and Tamil. Her approach blends practical therapy methods with attention to personal values and inner life.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and still take steps toward what matters to them.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her work when patterns of thinking and behavior need clearer tools and structure. Attachment-based ideas help when relationship patterns and fears of abandonment or closeness get in the way. Sessions focus on simple, concrete steps.
Clients learn ways to manage anxiety, cope with grief, and handle career or parenting strain. Communication problems, commitment worries, and codependency are addressed with real skills people can try between sessions. Gupta also supports people working through trauma, addiction, bipolar and depression symptoms, fertility and fatherhood concerns, and challenges tied to family of origin.
She makes space for exploring identity and LGBT-related issues while helping clients set values-based goals. Her style is calm and down-to-earth. She aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation and to help people find practices that fit their life.
Many clients use a mix of short-term coaching and longer-term therapy depending on their goals.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It often suits anxiety, stress, and life-change work where making value-driven choices matters.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing new skills. It is useful for anxiety, depression, compulsive habits, and improving coping day to day.
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and intimacy. It can help with fears of abandonment, communication problems, and rebuilding safety in relationships.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then adjust methods over time. Many people use a mix of approaches as needs evolve.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for busy schedules, travel, and international clients.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Nevada
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Tamil
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