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Dr. Kanchi’s Approach

  • Warm and Compassionate.

    Dr. Kanchi is known for her warmth, genuine compassion, and nonjudgmental presence – all of which help her clients to feel at ease and safe with her. Notably, her approach fosters a very strong alliance with her clients that is maintained throughout the therapeutic journey.

  • Evidence-based.

    Dr. Kanchi utilizes interventions that are evidence-based, which means that it is backed by scientific evidence and proven to be successful.

  • Trauma-Informed.

    Dr. Kanchi’s trauma-informed approach involves a keen awareness of the widespread impact of trauma on life experience and relationships. The reality is, a wide range of adverse events can cause trauma. Recognizing its role in a person’s experience is essential to treating and healing the toxic stress of trauma on one’s life.

  • Strength-Based.

    Dr. Kanchi helps identify the clients’ existing strengths and uses it as a solid steppingstone upon which the desired changes and progress are built on.

  • Skills-Focused.

    Dr. Kanchi equips her clients with practical tools and strategies to help navigate the presenting challenges, reduce burdening symptoms, and enhance wellbeing.

  • Personalized.

    Each journey is a personal one and Dr. Kanchi works with her clients to provide a customized and comprehensive treatment that meets their unique needs.

  • Collaborative.

    Dr. Kanchi collaborates with her clients and partners with key community professionals to provide comprehensive treatment.

  • Culturally-Sensitive.

    Dr. Kanchi is a versatile and culturally competent provider who takes the time to understand the client’s values, beliefs, and perspectives in order to deliver effective treatment.

Expertise in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Foster resilient perspectives

CBT can help shift maladaptive thoughts and behaviors to more balanced and constructive processes, ultimately improving one’s emotional wellbeing and overall resilience.

 

Dr. Kanchi has extensive expertise in delivering cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which is considered to be a highly effective, evidence-based treatment for a host of issues, such as anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD, anger, and stress.

Given that thoughts-feelings-actions are intimately connected, CBT helps by targeting maladaptive thoughts and behaviors, resulting in changes to the emotional experiences. More specifically, clients in CBT become skilled at identifying their own critical, catastrophic, unhelpful thoughts tend to go on auto-pilot mode. Consistently tuning inward to be aware one’s cognitive patterns helps build metacognition — which is, understanding the way you think. By coaching one’s brain to engage in cognitive restructuring strategies to foster balanced and constructive thoughts, CBT aims to not only help reduce emotional distress, but also to ‘re-wire’ the neural pathways in the brain overtime.

Dr. Kanchi also incorporates narrative self-reflection to shed light on past experiences that may have shaped the lens in which one sees themselves, others, and interprets experiences. She further integrates mindfulness, self-compassion, various positive psychology based strategies, and a wide array of resilience skills into the treatment plan to yield optimal treatment outcomes.

For more information about CBT, click below.

https://beckinstitute.org/about/intro-to-cbt/