About Poonam
Poonam Thadani helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship strain, depression, and major life changes. She is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with four years of professional experience. She speaks English and Hindi and aims to make starting therapy straightforward for worried parents and busy people.
Poonam creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can name what they are feeling. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps rather than long explanations.
How Poonam works
She listens for patterns in relationships and daily life that keep problems going, and she helps clients try different ways of responding. Her work pulls from several approaches to match a client's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, attachment-based work, and emotionally-focused methods often guide how she helps people understand emotions and shift unhelpful behaviors.
She also uses client-centered and existential ideas to help clients find meaning and personal direction. Poonam often helps people handle caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, codependency, separation or divorce concerns, and family of origin issues. She also supports those coping with guilt, shame, isolation, or questions about life purpose.
Conversations address what is happening now and what can be changed step by step. People can expect practical tools in sessions - simple experiments, communication practices, and ways to manage anxious thoughts. The therapist works collaboratively to set the pace and aims to empower people to make steady, realistic changes.
Poonam lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Poonam works with
The areas below are the ones Poonam selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English, Hindi |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice how they seek closeness or push others away, then practice new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions. In web or phone sessions, CBT offers clear tools to test unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors between meetings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, concerns, and comfort with different methods. Together they decide which approaches to try and adjust them as needed, so the plan fits the person's life and pace.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can suit shorter check-ins, ongoing problem management, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, caregiving, or health needs while focusing on skills and progress.
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A practical next step
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