Ashwini Gupta, LMFT

Ashwini Gupta is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California with over 20 years of experience. She blends talk therapy with mindfulness and spiritual perspectives to help people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. Sessions focus on values, practical steps, and building emotional awareness.

Her work often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people relate differently to painful thoughts and emotions and take values-guided action. Attachment-focused ideas inform work on relationship and intimacy concerns, helping people notice patterns that repeat across connections. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.

People come for a wide range of concerns including stress, career shifts, grief, addiction, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include abandonment, body image, codependency, and fatherhood issues. She also supports people navigating fertility, family of origin issues, and forgiveness work.

Ashwini’s approach combines evidence-informed methods with a spiritual perspective drawn from Vedanta and intuitive practices. Those additional practices are offered separately from therapy but shape the calm and reflective stance she brings to sessions. The goal is practical change that also connects to the person’s deeper values and sense of meaning.

She speaks English, Hindi, and Tamil, and sees international clients as well. To start, prospective clients use the platform’s Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.

How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then pick actions that reflect what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns show up now, and helps people change how they connect and respond in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means checking in about what is and isn’t helpful and adjusting focus over time.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing more flexible scheduling. It also lets people continue care with a therapist who speaks their language, including English, Hindi, and Tamil, even if they are outside the therapist’s state. Because the profile does not list specific session formats, confirm current options before booking so you know how sessions will be scheduled and delivered.