About Ashwini
Ashwini Gupta is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 20 years of experience. She combines talk therapy and mindfulness to help people manage anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are offered in English, Hindi, and Tamil for clients in California and beyond. Ashwini uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values.
She also draws on attachment-based principles to address patterns that cause hurt in relationships. Practical steps, simple mindfulness exercises, and clear goals are common parts of her work.
She often helps people dealing with stress, grief, parenting questions, career transitions, addiction concerns, and compassion fatigue. Other focus areas include body image, codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, and fertility or fatherhood issues.
She also supports people in the LGBT community and those coping with trauma and abuse. Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth.
Ashwini aims to make space for both emotional processing and everyday problem solving. Clients can expect collaborative planning, short practices to do between sessions, and straightforward feedback about what seems to help.
Alongside therapy, Ashwini’s broader interests in spirituality inform her presence but do not replace clinical care. She believes therapy works best when it matches a person’s needs, values, and rhythm, and she works with each client to shape a practical path forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Ashwini often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that reflect their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where choices feel unclear.She also draws on attachment-based therapy to identify recurring relationship patterns and repair ways of relating that cause pain. This approach helps people understand how early connections affect current trust, intimacy, and communication.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work together with each person to try methods that fit their goals, values, and day-to-day life. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what isn’t.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let sessions feel close to in-person conversations while making scheduling easier. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or a better fit when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, and ongoing accountability between sessions. These flexible options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Nevada
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Tamil