Hareesma Amutha Venkatesan

If you’re the one who holds everything together, at home, at work, or for your family, you may feel overwhelmed, anxious, or burnt out. Maybe cultural expectations, relationship stress, or a major life change has left you disconnected from yourself. If you’re a parent, you might be navigating the emotional weight of motherhood and the pressure to “do it all.” If you’re a teen or young adult, school, identity, and relationships can feel like a lot. You don’t have to carry it alone.

I specialize in cross-cultural identity, burnout/over-functioning, and emotional struggles, and I also support concerns like anxiety and depression, perfectionism, people-pleasing, grief and loss, OCD/phobias, stress, anger, life transitions, boundaries, and relationship challenges. As a BIPOC therapist who is a mother, immigrant, and former international student, I understand how layered identity, belonging, and emotional safety can be, and I bring a compassionate, culturally aware lens to our work.

What our work can look like: together we slow things down, name what’s happening inside and around you, and build practical tools. That might include CBT (spot unhelpful thought loops and shift them), DBT-informed skills (emotion regulation, distress tolerance), ACT (accept tough feelings while moving toward your values), mindfulness (more calm, less reactivity), and narrative/emotion-focused work (make sense of your story and needs). Expect concrete steps like boundary scripts, people-pleasing exit strategies, values-aligned choices, and weekly practices you can use between sessions. Over time, clients often report less overwhelm, clearer boundaries, and a more grounded sense of self.

You don’t have to have it all figured out to start. Reach out to book a consultation, we’ll take it one step at a time, together.