Priya Sookbir
Hello! I’m Priya, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Are you feeling overwhelmed by a major life transition, anxiety, or relationship stress? I specialize in supporting adults navigating life's heaviest changes. I have a deep passion for helping clients through perinatal and postpartum mental health, and the complexities of parenting. As a parent, I truly understand these emotional highs and lows. Together, we’ll move beyond just talking-I offer a warm, collaborative space where we build practical tools to help you reduce stress, process deep emotions, regain balance, and move forward with confidence. If you’re feeling stretched thin, uncertain, or not quite like yourself, you’re not alone—and you don’t have to figure it out on your own. I offer a warm, supportive space where you can slow down, process what you’re experiencing, and feel more grounded and understood.
First session
In our first session, I hope to learn more about you. In our first session, I will have some gentle questions to ask to learn more about your history, strengths, goals, and what led to you reach out at this time. I aim to create a warm and collaborative space, where you can take your time to share what feels comfortable. The first session is also a chance to get to know each other and for you to assess if I am a good fit to support you on this journey!
Strengths
I use a strengths based approach to help clients better understand their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Using evidence-based therapies, I help you understand thought patterns and build practical coping tools to reduce anxiety, process stress, and restore emotional balance. I also have completed training from Postpartum Support International to better support clients perinatal and postpartum mental health. My approach to therapy is warm, empathetic, collaborative, and grounded in creating a space where clients feel supported. I truly believe in the power of empathy. I actually named my practice, Embraced with Empathy Therapy! Wherever you are starting from today, you don't have to navigate it alone. I look forward to connecting with you!
Ideal clients
I enjoy working with adults who are navigating a transition or simply feeling like life has become harder to manage than they expected. You may be adjusting to college or adulthood, experiencing changes in relationships or family life, trying to conceive, becoming a parent, navigating infertility or postpartum challenges, or simply feeling disconnected from yourself. My ideal client is someone who wants a nonjudgmental space to slow down, make sense of what they’re experiencing, develop coping strategies, create a greater sense of balance and connection in their lives., and feel more confident moving forward.
Treatment methods
Strength-Based
I use a strengths based approach in my work, which includes helping you identify or discover your own internal resources that will help you with your goals!
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT is a commonly used approach that helps you explore the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They all go hand in hand when processing and working through goals.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
DBT is another approach that can offer hands on skills that you can use in your every day life to help manage symptoms or stressors. DBT helps you create your own toolkit!
Multicultural
Learning more about your culture, beliefs, and values is important to our work. There may be parts that resonate with us or parts that we struggle with. In session, this is a space we can explore these layers together.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I use ACT to help clients develop greater awareness of their thoughts and emotions while learning to respond to them with flexibility and self-compassion. Together, we focus on identifying what matters most to the client and taking meaningful, values-based steps toward the life they want.
Location
Virtual sessions
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- New JerseyLicense 44SC05777600