Ashwini Gupta, LMFT

Ashwini Gupta is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 20 years of professional experience supporting people through life transitions, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy difficulties, career challenges, and spiritual growth. She combines traditional psychotherapy training with intuitive and spiritual practices, working as a therapist, intuitive life coach, shamanic practitioner, animal communicator, and soul-level intuitive channel. Her clinical identity as an LMFT means she is trained to address relational dynamics and individual concerns within family and couple systems.

Ashwini blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Vedanta-informed perspectives, mindfulness practices, and intuitive healing to help clients reconnect with their values, inner wisdom, and sense of purpose. She brings a warm, grounded, and non-judgmental presence that supports exploration of difficult emotions while encouraging values-guided action and meaning-making. While the esoteric modalities she offers are provided alongside her private work, she distinguishes those practices from traditional therapy and allows each to inform the compassionate, spiritually aware approach she brings to sessions.

Ashwini works with a wide range of concerns including stress, addiction, grief, parenting and fatherhood issues, attachment and abandonment difficulties, LGBT matters, bipolar and mood concerns, ADHD, and caregiver burnout. She offers services in English, Hindi, and Tamil and accepts international clients, providing flexible options for people seeking both clinical support and spiritually informed guidance.

Online care using relationship-focused and values-based approaches

Ashwini often integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which helps clients notice and relate differently to difficult thoughts and feelings while taking action that aligns with their personal values. ACT can be useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and making meaningful life changes.

She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to explore early relational patterns and how they affect current relationships. This approach supports people working through intimacy concerns, abandonment issues, communication problems, and family dynamics by building awareness of attachment needs and responses.

Client-Centered Therapy is another pillar of her work, emphasizing a respectful, empathic stance that helps clients find their own solutions. This approach is especially helpful for those wanting a collaborative, non-directive space to process grief, identity questions, or major life transitions.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Ashwini works collaboratively with each person to identify what methods fit best based on their goals, preferences, and presenting concerns, adjusting the plan as work progresses.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and accessibility. These options allow people to engage in consistent care from different locations and schedules, making it easier to maintain momentum between sessions and access support when life demands shift.