Your 20s are full of POSSIBILITY. Growing into yourself is BRAVE work. You don’t have to do it alone.

THERAPY for young adults in California

Online therapy for young adults navigating anxiety, identity questions, family pressure, and the complicated feeling of not quite knowing who you are yet or what you want.

  • There’s a particular kind of hard that shows up in your 20s.

    It's the feeling that everyone else has figured it out and you're the only one who hasn't. The pressure to be building your career, your relationships, your life all at once, all well. The anxiety that hums underneath even the good things. The exhaustion of holding yourself to impossible standards and still feeling like you're falling behind.

    And if you're a first-generation student or the child of immigrants, that pressure often carries an extra weight — the sense that you're doing it not just for yourself, but for everyone who came before you.

    You're not falling apart. But you might be ready for a space that's just for you.

You might be in the RIGHT place if you…

  • Feel anxious more often than not about school, work, the future, or just... everything

  • Are going through a major transition: graduating, starting a career, moving, a breakup, a family shift

  • Struggle with perfectionism or imposter syndrome. You're achieving, but it never feels like enough

  • Feel pressure from your family or culture that's hard to talk about with people who don't get it

  • Are questioning your identity — who you are, what you believe, what kind of life you actually want

  • Compare yourself to peers on social media and feel like you're losing a race you never signed up for

  • Have a hard time setting limits with family, friends, or at work, and feel guilty when you try

  • Want to understand your patterns in relationships before they keep repeating themselves

What WE will WORK on together.

Anxiety and academic or career pressure

Whether you're finishing school, starting your first job, or trying to keep up with a pace that never seems to slow down — anxiety in young adulthood is real, and it's often invisible. We work on understanding what's driving it, building practical tools to manage it, and untangling the perfectionism and self-criticism that often live underneath.

Identity and the quarter-life transition

Your 20s are a time of enormous identity formation — and that can feel disorienting, especially when the version of yourself your family imagined doesn't quite match the one you're becoming. We create space to explore who you are outside of everyone's expectations, what you value, and what kind of life actually feels like yours.

Family and cultural expectations

For many young adults — especially first-generation, South Asian, Indo-Fijian, Indo-Caribbean, and diaspora clients — family pressure isn't just background noise. It shapes how you see yourself, what you feel allowed to want, and the constant tension between honoring where you come from and becoming who you need to be. Therapy is a place where all of that is welcome, and where you never have to choose sides.

Relationships and self-esteem

Dating, friendships, social comparison, and the quiet ache of not feeling like enough — these are not small things. We work on understanding the patterns that show up in your relationships (including the one you have with yourself), and building a more grounded, stable sense of who you are and what you deserve.

HOW I work with YOUNG ADULTS.

Young adulthood is one of the most underserved chapters in mental health — most therapy models were designed for adults with more settled lives, or for children and teens. I work specifically with the experience of being in-between: building your life while still figuring out what you want it to look like.

My approach draws on three evidence-based modalities:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT helps you build psychological flexibility — so you can feel anxious, uncertain, or overwhelmed without letting those feelings run your choices. It's especially useful for young adults dealing with performance anxiety, perfectionism, and the pressure to have it all together.

Attachment Therapy

Many patterns that show up in your 20s — in relationships, in how you handle conflict, in how much you trust yourself — have roots in earlier experiences. Understanding where they come from is one of the most powerful things we can do together.

Psychodynamic Therapy

We go beneath the surface to explore the deeper beliefs and unconscious patterns that shape how you experience yourself and the world. For young adults navigating identity, this depth work is often where real change begins.

READY to Start? Here’s how.

1.  Reach out

Fill out my contact form or send an email. You don't have to know exactly what to say — just that you'd like to connect.

2.  Free 15-minute consultation

We'll talk briefly by video so you can ask questions and get a feel for whether it's a good fit. No pressure.

3.  Begin therapy

All sessions are via secure telehealth — from your apartment, your dorm room, or wherever you are in California.