Dr. Nithya Narayan, CA Psychologist 28844

Dr. Nithya Narayan uses cognitive behavioral therapy alongside other approaches to help people untangle unhelpful thinking and make practical changes. She is a California licensed psychologist with nine years of experience. She speaks English, Hindi, and Tamil and understands the pressures of navigating life in a new country.

She focuses on everyday concerns like low self-esteem, work and career stress, anxiety, and depression. She also helps people who are coping with big life changes, grief, trauma, and parenting challenges. Additional areas of attention include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, postpartum depression, and multicultural or immigration-related concerns.

In sessions she aims for a straightforward and nonjudgmental tone. Sessions are intended to be a place to talk through thoughts and feelings, test out small behavior changes, and build skills to manage stress. She uses elements of acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, and existential questions when they fit the situation.

Her background as a first generation immigrant shapes her work with cultural concerns and stigma about mental health. She helps people name barriers to care and find ways to get support that feel doable. Practical tools and simple experiments outside sessions are often part of the plan.

Dr. Narayan offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She works through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and sessions are scheduled based on therapist availability.

CBT, ACT, and Attachment approaches for online care

Dr. Narayan commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify thought patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood and to practice different behaviors that change outcomes. CBT is practical and problem-focused, often including small experiments to try between sessions.

She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which emphasizes noticing thoughts without fighting them and clarifying personal values to guide action. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current reactions and coping. These approaches can be helpful for concerns like anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and parenting stress.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. That process may shift over time as needs change.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can help with brief check-ins or when writing feels easier, and messaging supports ongoing reminders and skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.