About Manisha
Manisha Parikh is a licensed clinical social worker in California with six years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, self-esteem, and depression. She approaches each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Manisha uses clear, straightforward conversation to help people make change. She listens first and then offers tools that match each person's goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and goal-focused while honoring personal values and experiences. Her work often addresses specific worries like abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver stress, and difficulties with communication. She also supports people coping with guilt, shame, loneliness, midlife shifts, and post-traumatic stress.
Women’s issues and learning to cultivate self-love are additional areas she helps people explore. Manisha draws on a mix of approaches including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, solution-focused tools, and trauma-focused practices. She tailors these to each person’s situation and comfort with change.
People who want a collaborative, respectful therapist can expect straightforward language and concrete steps in sessions. The focus is on small, doable changes that add up over time and on strengthening what already works in daily life.
How Manisha blends proven approaches in online care
Manisha uses client-centered therapy to build a respectful, person-led process. This approach means sessions focus on what matters to the client, with the therapist listening carefully and following the client's lead to identify what should change. It is useful for people who want to feel heard and then take steps that match their values.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which involves noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns because it breaks problems into manageable pieces and offers clear practice tasks between sessions. Trauma-focused therapy is used when past hurt is getting in the way of daily life; it aims to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and teach coping skills for triggers.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try different techniques, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to set goals and choose methods that fit the person's needs and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video calls let people use visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quicker check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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