About Suni
Suni Kuriakose helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and grief. She also supports those facing trauma and abuse, depression, addiction concerns, parenting strain, and career or life changes. Suni uses a respectful, compassionate approach and keeps conversations focused on the client’s immediate needs.
Suni is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in New Jersey with eight years of experience. She adapts each session to the person in front of her and creates a plan that fits their situation.
How Suni works
Sessions are collaborative and practical, with room to raise concerns about intimacy, eating, anger, or self-esteem. Suni also works with people dealing with family-of-origin problems, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, and commitment or communication issues. She attends to problems related to fertility, fatherhood, first responder stress, and recovery from domestic violence.
Her practice includes helping people cope after natural or human-caused disasters. In sessions she aims to make the process understandable and manageable. Conversations are paced to match what someone can handle that week.
Plans often include measurable steps for coping, repairing relationships, or reducing day-to-day distress. Suni emphasizes listening first and then building on strengths. She offers guidance, coaching, and concrete strategies to help people move toward clearer goals and improved day-to-day functioning.
What Suni works with
The areas below are the ones Suni selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Evidence-based techniques are used to address common struggles in straightforward ways. One common approach focuses on building practical coping skills for stress and anxiety - it teaches specific tools people can use day to day to lower worry and improve sleep and concentration. Another approach emphasizes processing difficult experiences related to trauma and abuse, helping people make sense of painful memories and reduce their impact on current relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals and comfort level. Together they set priorities, try methods, and adjust plans if something does not feel helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people keep face-to-face contact while phone calls need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins, between-session coaching, or when a shorter interaction is preferred. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other day-to-day demands.
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