About Punit
Punit Mahendru is a California psychologist with 30 years of clinical work. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low in confidence, or stuck during life changes. She speaks English and Hindi and approaches each person with respect and compassion.
She focuses on practical conversations that address day-to-day struggles. Sessions look at thoughts, behaviors, and habits that keep anxiety and low mood going. She also helps people sort relationship patterns and communication problems that add to stress.
Background and approach
Punit adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. She uses exercises and reflections you can try between meetings. The goal is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and more usable tools for coping with life’s demands.
Her work includes attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and issues tied to life purpose and identity. She also supports people facing separation, midlife shifts, social anxiety, seasonal affective changes, and challenges tied to culture or gender. Punit describes a warm, straightforward style.
She listens for what matters most and then helps build small, manageable steps. That makes therapy easier to fit into busy lives and into real-world needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Punit commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while clarifying personal values to guide action. It can help when anxiety or avoidance is keeping life small. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns that feed anxiety or depression.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your concerns, ask about goals, and try different strategies to find what helps. You and the therapist will review progress and adjust plans together so the work stays relevant to your needs and pace.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for in-depth conversations and exercises, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, written reflections, and step-by-step coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Hindi
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