What is moving
through you?

Therapy for adults and couples navigating what feels tangled, tender, unresolved, or ready to change.

Relational, depth-oriented, and somatic-informed therapy. In person in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and virtually for clients across New York.

Some people come to therapy with a clear reason. Others come with a feeling they can barely explain.

Something may be asking for attention: a recurring pattern, a relationship that feels strained, a body that feels worn down, or a life that looks steady from the outside but feels harder to inhabit.

Therapy can be a place to understand what has been hard to hold alone, and to begin moving with more honesty, connection, and choice.

A closer way of listening.

In therapy, we pay attention to what is spoken clearly, what is harder to say, and what your body or relationships may be communicating before the words arrive.

My approach draws from relational, psychodynamic, attachment-based, somatic, and trauma-informed therapy, along with parts work, mindfulness, nervous-system-informed practices, and practical tools when helpful.

The work is not about fixing you. It is about understanding what has taken shape over time, and creating enough capacity, honesty, and care for something new to emerge.

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Ways to work together.

Services are offered through Transcendent Self Therapy, with in-person availability in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and virtual therapy for clients across New York.

Individual therapy

A place to understand yourself more fully: your patterns, emotions, relationships, and the ways you have learned to protect yourself. Therapy can help you make meaning, shift what no longer serves you, and move with more clarity, connection, and choice.

Couples therapy

A place to understand the cycle between you and what keeps pulling you into disconnection. Together, we make room for the emotions, needs, and vulnerabilities underneath the pattern, so more safety and connection can become possible.

Common starting places.

You do not need the perfect words for what brings you here. These are some of the themes that often enter the work.

Relationship patterns & attachment

How you learned to connect, protect, pull away, please, pursue, shut down, or stay alert with others.

Family of origin & intergenerational dynamics

The roles, expectations, silences, and emotional inheritances you learned, and what you may want to carry differently.

Trauma & nervous system healing

Experiences that may still live in the body as bracing, vigilance, numbness, shutdown, emotional flooding, or shame.

Anxiety, depression & emotional heaviness

The places inside that feel overwhelmed, depleted, restless, disconnected, or difficult to meet alone.

Identity, self-worth & life transitions

Questions of who you are becoming, what still fits, and how to move through change with more self-trust.

Cultural identity & family systems

Belonging, family expectations, loyalty, autonomy, migration, tradition, grief, and life between worlds.

Perfectionism, burnout & executive functioning

The pressure to achieve, over-function, stay organized, or keep going when something in you is exhausted.

Neurodivergence & emotional complexity

Attention, sensitivity, masking, intensity, overwhelm, and support that fits how your mind and body actually work.

Shreeja Vachhani, LMSW — a portrait taken outdoors in warm afternoon light

About Shreeja

Psychotherapist social worker educator bicultural clinician classical dancer

I came to this work through a long-standing interest in what shapes a person: early relationships, the nervous system, culture, memory, movement, and the stories we inherit before we know we are carrying them.

My background in psychology, neuroscience, social work, and clinical training informs how I listen. I'm interested not only in what someone is struggling with, but what they have adapted to, protected, and begun reaching toward.

As a bicultural clinician, I also pay close attention to the spaces between worlds: belonging and independence, loyalty and selfhood, silence and expression, tradition and change.

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Let's begin with a brief conversation.

A free 15-minute consultation is a chance to share what is bringing you here, ask questions, and get a sense of whether working together feels like a good fit. You do not need to have the whole story organized before reaching out.

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