About Manisha
Manisha Parikh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with six years of practice in California. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed or stuck and supports them as they take steps toward change. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative, aimed at building on each person's existing strengths.
She commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression, and concerns tied to trauma and abuse. Parenting worries, self-esteem struggles, and motivation are also areas she addresses.
How Manisha works
Additional focus includes abandonment and attachment issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, midlife transition concerns, post-traumatic stress, and women's issues. Manisha blends several practical methods to match what a person needs. She uses client-centered work to listen and reflect what matters most to the person.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build different ways of responding. Solution-focused and motivational techniques support short-term goals and practical steps. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events are central to the concern.
Sessions aim to be a mix of honest conversation and small, doable tasks to practice between meetings. She emphasizes gradual progress and respects each person's pace. People often leave sessions with clear next steps and tools to try during the week.
Her style is warm and empowering while staying goal-oriented. She invites people to explore what matters and to set realistic goals. The work centers on building skills, increasing self-compassion, and creating sustainable change.
Manisha lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Manisha works with
The areas below are the ones Manisha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How core approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters most to the person. Online sessions use that same listening-first stance to help people name their priorities and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and builds practical strategies to change patterns; this works well over video or phone when completing worksheets and setting practice tasks.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they check in regularly and adjust techniques as progress is made, combining supportive conversation with actionable steps.
Online formats offer flexibility and different ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, quick reflections, and the ability to send updates between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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