Licensed to practice in 3 states and accepts 13 insurances. Specializes in Anxiety, Couples Counseling, Eating Disorders and 10 more.
New to Grow
I’m Ayushi Acharya, a licensed therapist and founder of Rich Within Therapy. My practice supports individuals, teens, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, eating disorders, body image concerns, relationship stress, fertility challenges, postpartum transitions, and the weight of cultural or family expectations. My approach is warm, grounded, and collaborative. I help clients better understand their patterns, build emotional safety, strengthen relationships, and create lives that feel more connected, sustainable, and rich from within.
In our first session, we’ll take time to get to know each other and understand what brought you to therapy. I’ll ask about your current concerns, important background, relationships, symptoms, strengths, and what you’re hoping feels different through our work together. You do not need to have everything figured out before you come in. The first session is a space to begin gently, ask questions, and share at a pace that feels comfortable. Together, we’ll start identifying patterns, clarifying your goals, and discussing what type of support may be most helpful for you. My goal is for you to leave the first session feeling heard, understood, and with a clearer sense of what therapy with me can look like moving forward.
I bring warmth, honesty, clinical depth, and a grounded presence to my sessions. My approach stands out because I balance compassion with practical tools, helping clients feel deeply understood while also giving them clear ways to move forward. I have experience supporting individuals, teens, couples, and families through anxiety, depression, eating disorders, body image concerns, relationship stress, fertility challenges, postpartum transitions, and complex family dynamics. I pay close attention to the patterns underneath the symptoms, including attachment, communication, perfectionism, people-pleasing, cultural expectations, and nervous system responses. Clients often describe me as direct but caring. I aim to create a space where you do not feel judged, rushed, or pathologized. Instead, we work together to understand what you have been carrying, why certain patterns make sense, and how to build healthier ways of relating to yourself and others. My goal is to help therapy feel both emotionally safe and genuinely useful.
I am best positioned to serve individuals, teens, couples, and families who are feeling overwhelmed by the pressure to hold everything together while quietly struggling inside. Many of my clients come to therapy feeling anxious, depressed, disconnected from themselves, or stuck in patterns that are affecting their relationships, family dynamics, body image, or overall sense of self. I have a particular passion for supporting clients navigating eating disorders, disordered eating, body image concerns, anxiety, depression, fertility challenges, postpartum transitions, relationship stress, and the emotional weight of cultural or family expectations. I also work with families who want to better understand each other, improve communication, reduce conflict, and support a loved one through mental health or eating disorder recovery. My ideal clients are often insightful, high-functioning, and deeply caring, but they may feel exhausted from people-pleasing, perfectionism, overthinking, or carrying responsibilities that no longer feel sustainable. They may be seeking therapy because they want to break cycles, build healthier relationships, heal from painful experiences, or feel more grounded in who they are. In our work together, the goal is not just symptom relief, but deeper understanding, emotional safety, and meaningful change. I help clients name what they are experiencing, understand the patterns beneath it, and develop practical tools to move forward with more clarity, confidence, and self-compassion.
Other specialties
I identify as
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
helping control, eliminate, or make meaning from anxious or uncomfortable thoughts
Couples Counseling
trained couples therapist; Gottman Certificate certified, experience with high conflict divorce
Trauma Informed Care
providing trauma informed care such as experiences of abuse or neglect
Family Therapy
utilizing family therapy for eating disorders, high level of family conflict