About Manisha
Manisha Parikh is a licensed clinical social worker in California with six years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She also supports parents working through parenting strain and people rebuilding self esteem and motivation.
Manisha believes people know their own stories. She listens first and helps clients identify strengths they already have. Sessions are practical and focused on small, doable steps toward change.
Background and approach
She aims to make the work feel manageable for busy lives. Her approach combines straightforward problem-solving with attention to emotional healing. She uses techniques that address thoughts and behaviors, and she helps people work through painful memories when needed.
The goal is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and better day-to-day functioning. Manisha pays attention to relationship patterns like attachment and abandonment concerns. She also supports people coping with caregiver stress, guilt, shame, isolation, and midlife transitions.
When trauma is involved, she works in ways that respect each person’s pace. In sessions she brings warmth and a practical focus. Conversations are collaborative and goal oriented.
She helps people set realistic steps and track progress over time.
How Manisha’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what matters to you, and helps you build on your strengths to make change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It offers simple tools to test unhelpful thoughts and try new coping strategies for anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Manisha will talk with you about your goals and preferences and then try methods that match your needs. That choice is collaborative and can change as you make progress or face new challenges.
Online sessions using video calls let you see facial cues and work more like in-person meetings. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when you prefer writing your thoughts. These options make therapy more flexible so it can fit into a busy life.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
How would you describe her therapy style?
What is her background and experience?
What credential and location details are on file?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
What are the first steps to start working together?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English