LPCC, 8 years of experience
New to Grow
Hi, I’m Ravina, a licensed therapist (LPCC, #16404) with a deeply personal mission to create brave, healing spaces where individuals can grow, unlearn, and embrace alignment with their authentic selves. I am also a spoken word artist, published author, speaker, and cat mama of two. Through my own journey, I learned that silencing myself felt safer, people-pleasing seemed preferable, and stepping into the back row was easier than claiming my full voice. I lived for years with anxiety, trauma, and depression in the background, believing this was normal. Over time, I was fortunate to access spaces where I could process trauma, unlearn cultural conditioning, and center my voice. As both a professional artist and therapist, I’ve embraced the truth that my story matters—and I deeply believe yours does too. In sessions, I draw from a range of evidence-based and intersectional approaches, including CBT, DBT, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic and Interpersonal Therapy, and Attachment-Based approaches. While these methods are well-established, I intentionally de-center colonial and outdated techniques, keeping your goals, needs, and lived experience at the forefront. My aim is to create a warm, purposeful space where therapy feels authentic to you. I honor that therapy is not one-size-fits-all; it should not feel cold, rigid, or dictated by someone else’s agenda. I prioritize building a strong therapeutic relationship, respecting your time, and supporting your intentional choice to be here. Some journeys last months, others years—but together we work consistently and purposefully so you can move from surviving to thriving, and bloom into alignment with your true self. I am honored to witness your healing journey, exploring, unlearning, re-learning, and embracing all parts of your story as we navigate life, symptoms, and growth—together.
In our first session, my focus is on creating a warm, empathetic, and compassionate space where you can begin to share your story at your own pace. I take a whole-person approach, exploring not only your current concerns but also the broader context of your life including your strengths, values, relationships, and the environments that shape your experience. Using a biopsychosocial assessment; We will discuss what brings you to therapy, clarify your goals, and begin identifying the approaches that may best support your healing. My aim is for you to leave the session feeling understood, grounded, and confident that we can work together in a way that honors your full humanity.
My greatest strengths lie in the compassion, authenticity, and warmth I bring to every session. I show up fully present, focused, grounded, and committed to devoting our time together to your healing. You can expect a therapeutic space that is centered entirely on you, where your experiences are met with attunement and care. Not every session will look the same, some will feel heavier, others lighter, but each one is guided with intention. I am thoughtful about the questions I ask, the perspectives I offer, and the pace we take. My aim is for you to feel that each session meaningfully supports your movement toward insight, growth, and long-term healing.
I work well with clients who are ready to engage in a thoughtful, in-depth healing process. An ideal client, for me is not defined by a specific background or diagnosis, but by a willingness to show up with openness, curiosity, and a commitment to meaningful change. Therapy is a collaborative journey, and I value working with individuals who are motivated to understand their patterns, explore their inner world, and actively participate in the work we do together. My role is to provide compassion, guidance, structure, and support. When we both invest fully in the process, deep and lasting transformation becomes possible.
In my practice over the past decade, I have successfully integrated CBT to help clients examine the relationships among thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Using evidence-based techniques, the cognitive triangle, examining and identifying cognitive distortions and other related interventions, I work collaboratively with clients to identify cognitive patterns that contribute to distress and to develop more adaptive ways of thinking and responding. Treatment is structured, goal-oriented, and tailored to each client’s presenting concerns. The aim is to equip clients with practical skills they can apply beyond the therapy setting to support sustained improvement and resilience
Over my years in practice, I find myself very geared and oriented towards attachment based theories and approaches to help clients understand how early relational experiences shape current patterns of emotion regulation, interpersonal functioning, and self-perception. I look at areas of functioning that are impaired due to attachment issues with people, substance, experiences, memories, outcomes and more. Through a focus on the therapeutic relationship, we explore internal working models that may influence how clients relate to themselves and others. Interventions are informed by contemporary attachment theory and emphasize increasing emotional attunement, fostering secure relational patterns, and supporting the development of a coherent sense of self. Treatment is paced to support safety, insight, and corrective emotional experiences that promote long-term relational and psychological change using the short term or long term frameworks appropriate.
I often integrate Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) to help clients develop a more supportive and balanced inner dialogue, improvement of self talk, when struggles with shame or self-criticism are evident. I use theory and informed practice to cultivate the “compassionate mind” to regulate threat-based emotional states and foster psychological safety. Through guided practices, imagery, and skills training, clients learn to engage with their experiences from a stance of warmth, courage, and understanding. This approach, from what I have seen in my clinical practice, has helped my clients through improved emotion regulation, increased self-acceptance, and greater resilience in the face of stress/ impairments.
As a provider of color, first generation woman, of an immigrant family, I heavily ground my work in a culturally sensitive framework that acknowledges how identity, systemic issues/ hx of oppression, and lived experience influence my clients' mental health. I attend closely to the ways race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other sociocultural factors shape clients’ narratives, stressors, and strengths. My approach emphasizes cultural humility, and an awareness of power dynamics within and beyond the therapeutic relationship. I work collaboratively with clients to ensure that treatment is responsive to clients’ values and worldviews while creating a space where their identities are validated, explored, and integrated into the healing process.
As a clinician who is passionate most about trauma work in therapy-I have integrated, for years, a trauma-informed framework that prioritizes safety, choice, and empowerment throughout the therapeutic process. I highlight the impact of trauma (individual and systemic)—and its influence on emotional regulation, relationships, and overall wellbeing. As a provider of color, I also attend to the ways racialized trauma, historical oppression, and structural inequities shape clients’ experiences. I use a biopsychosocial model and framework to support nervous system stability, strengthen internal resources, and foster a sense of agency. My goal is to create a therapeutic environment that is attuned, collaborative, and grounded in respect, allowing clients to explore their experiences with increased trust and resilience.