About Poonam
Poonam Thadani is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports those facing life transitions and questions about purpose and meaning. Her approach aims to make the first step toward change feel more manageable and less overwhelming.
Poonam creates a calm space where people can talk through their thoughts and feelings without judgment. She encourages practical steps alongside deeper reflection so clients can notice small changes that build over time.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Her work blends several methods to match what each person brings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, attachment-focused ideas, and emotionally-focused tools are commonly used.
She also draws on client-centered and existential perspectives to address values, choices, and long-standing patterns. With four years of clinical experience, Poonam has worked with people dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication problems, and family of origin concerns. She also supports people navigating divorce, infidelity, forgiveness, guilt, and loneliness.
Sessions are offered in English and Hindi and are delivered through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Poonam asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire so she can tailor the first sessions to their needs.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Poonam commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on small doable changes that reduce anxiety and lift mood.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationship patterns affect feelings of connection and safety. This approach can help with relationship struggles, codependency, and loneliness by clarifying patterns and trying different ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and responses to early sessions and then shape an approach that fits. That collaborative planning guides whether more CBT-focused work, attachment work, or emotionally-focused strategies are emphasized.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video makes it easier to read visual cues and practice skills together. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and more frequent support between sessions. These options help therapy fit into busy lives and different comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Hindi
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