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Individual Therapy for Anxiety, Trauma, Bicultural Identity & Personal Growth

Gentle, evidence-based individual therapy for the emotional, cultural, and relational complexities of being human — in Allen, TX, and online.

a space for your story

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More Than the Symptoms You Carry

Anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma do not exist in isolation. We help you understand what you are feeling within the context of your relationships, experiences, nervous system, and everyday life.

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No Part of You Has to Be Left Outside

Your culture, identity, family roles, values, and lived experiences belong in the conversation. Therapy should help you become more fully yourself—not ask you to separate from where you come from.

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Insight That Moves With You

We turn understanding into meaningful change by helping you develop stronger boundaries, emotional awareness, coping skills, and greater trust in your own decisions.

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therapists for individuals

Shivani Solanki Patel, M.S., LPC, MT-BC | Clinical Director

Ayesha Youngblood, M.A., LPC | Lead Clinician

Peyton Sutton, M.S., LPC, LMHC

Baylen Roundtree, M.A., LPC

Ayesha Kadri, M.A., LPC

Shreya Aggarwal, M.A., LPC

Hajrah Javed, M.A., LPC Associate

Sanjana Iyer, M.A., LPC Associate

Skye Adams-Thomas, M.S., LPC Associate

Nikhil Patel, M.S., LPC Associate

Sylvia Kim, M.S., LPC Associate

Teresa Nguyen, M.S., LPC Associate

Sidra Naqvi, M.A., LPC Associate

Coree Morgan, Graduate Counseling Intern

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Have You Become So Good at Carrying Everything That No One Can Tell How Heavy It Feels?

Maybe you appear capable while privately managing anxiety, emotional exhaustion, painful memories, or a persistent sense that you are falling behind. You may be navigating cultural expectations, questioning who you are outside your family roles, or facing a transition that has changed the way you see yourself.

You do not have to reduce your experience to a diagnosis or explain away the parts of your story that others may not understand. Individual therapy gives you room to recognize what has shaped you, care for what still hurts, and make choices that feel more aligned with the life you want.

You can understand where your patterns began without allowing them to decide where you go next.

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How Individual Therapy Can Help

  • Understand and manage anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout, or overwhelming emotions

  • Recognize patterns shaped by family roles, relationships, culture, and past experiences

  • Develop boundaries without automatically interpreting your needs as selfish or disrespectful

  • Reconnect with your identity outside achievement, caretaking, perfectionism, or other people’s approval

  • Navigate grief, relationship changes, career decisions, relocation, and major life transitions

  • Build emotional awareness, practical coping skills, and greater trust in your own judgment

Why Choose Intentional Therapy for Individual Therapy

We do not reduce you to a diagnosis or focus only on the symptoms that brought you to therapy. Our culturally responsive therapists consider how your emotional health may be influenced by family expectations, racial and cultural identity, faith, gender, sexuality, relationships, achievement pressure, and the roles you have learned to carry.

Therapy at Intentional Therapy is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in your real life. We help you understand where your patterns began, care for what still hurts, and create changes that reflect the person you are becoming—not only the person others have expected you to be.

Individual therapy is available in person in Richardson and virtually across Texas, Florida, and Indiana, depending on clinician licensure and availability.

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THE PROCESS

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free consultation

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first session

personalized treatment plan

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ongoing therapy

You Are More Than What You Have Learned to Carry.

Understand what shaped you, reconnect with your own voice, and create a life that makes room for your needs — not only everyone else’s expectations.