Hello! My name is Ankita Mohanty (ahn-KEE-tha mo-HAHN-thee), and I use she/her pronouns. My work is informed by my training in relational psychodynamics, expressive arts, and Buddhist psychology, as well as personal practices in conscious dance, vipassana meditation, poetry, and nature-based ceremony/ritual. I received by BA in Psychology and Women's Studies from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2010 and my Masters in Social Work from UC Berkeley in 2015. I have lived on unceded Ohlone land in the Bay Area for the past decade. I am the eldest child of Indian immigrants and was raised on unceded Chippewa land in central Michigan.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Sessions with me can feel tender, evocative, and expansive. They can result in more questions, a natural response to touching into our own great depths. You may leave sessions with a hunger for self-knowledge and introspection, and a deepened capacity for self-love. May our sessions leave you feeling less alone and alien in a world that can be harsh, unjust, and propagates the myth of non-belonging for folks who do not fit prescribed normalcy. May you leave feeling you have true home here. In our first session, I intend to meet you with an invitation to "arrive" in your own time and at your own pace. By this I mean you are welcome to share what is on your heart and mind to the degree that feels comfortable for you. I will offer reflections, observations, and questions, and possible pathways for going forward. It is an opportunity for you to feel into "fit," or the therapist-client match, name what you are hoping for in your therapy, and share any past experiences of healing you have had that inform where you are now.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I seek to co-create an environment of depth, care, and respect that honors and excavates your wisdom, your knowing, and your power. Judgment, shame, anxiety, insecurity, fear, anger, grief, and other difficult feelings are considered natural and are welcomed as part of the therapeutic process. I am committed to learning how to be with you, and to the gradual and sometimes challenging process of building trust between us. My personal life is devoted to cultivating presence and peace within myself so that I can in turn be in service to you. I bring to you what I strive to bring to myself: emotional attunement, resourcefulness, humor, patience, and kindness. May that be felt in our time together.
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Culturally Sensitive Therapy
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Mindfulness-Based Therapy
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