About Sonjit
Sonjit Mukherjee uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. He is a LICSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience and works from Massachusetts. Sonjit keeps sessions straightforward and compassionate so people can talk about hard things without jargon.
He often helps people facing depression, addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and struggles with self-esteem. He also addresses sleep and eating issues, anger, career stress, and coping with life changes.
How Sonjit works
LGBT concerns, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and bipolar-related challenges are also within his focus areas. Sonjit draws on therapies that encourage acceptance, emotional awareness, and practical skill building. He blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to fit each person’s situation.
Sessions focus on small, achievable steps and clearer ways to handle emotions and relationships. He has additional experience with attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care histories, blended family stress, body image and intimacy issues, and caregiving burdens. He also supports people managing chronic illness, cancer-related concerns, and co-occurring conditions.
Sessions are offered in English, and Sonjit accepts international clients. People begin by using the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling sessions according to his availability.
Sonjit lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Sonjit works with
The areas below are the ones Sonjit selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed, then choosing actions that match your values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotional responses in relationships and building clearer emotional communication; it helps with intimacy-related distress and attachment issues.Figuring out the best approach happens together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. From there they tailor a mix of methods, revising the plan as progress is made so the work fits real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth work that benefits from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or a better fit when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging can support quick reflections, coaching-style prompts, or ongoing skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied circumstances.
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