Deeya Thakkar

Deeya Thakkar is a Mental Health Therapist with a Masters in Counselling Psychology from City University of Seattle.  She takes a collaborative and client centered approach to therapy, integrating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT). She strives to make therapy feel approachable, supportive, and grounded in real-life tools you can actually use, while offering a safe and welcoming space where clients don’t need to have everything figured out to get started.

Deeya works alongside clients with curiosity, compassion, and a touch of humor when appropriate, meeting them where they are and moving at a pace that feels right. Coming from a multicultural background, she brings cultural humility and awareness into her work and is mindful of how culture, identity, family values, and lived experiences shape mental health and healing.

She has over four years of experience supporting children, adolescents, and adults across clinical and community mental health settings. Her background includes providing emotional support, crisis intervention, and behavioural guidance for individuals with complex needs, as well as facilitating psychoeducational groups focused on resilience, self-esteem, and emotional well-being.

Deeya primarily works with adults, couples  and youth navigating concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, cultural identity and belonging, intergenerational challenges, grief, stress, burnout, emotion regulations, life transitions She is committed to culturally responsive care and offers services in English, Hindi, and Gujarati, helping clients feel seen, understood, and supported in ways that matter to them.