About Sunya
Sunya Kapidya is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who uses practical, person-focused approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and related concerns. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward style to sessions. She has worked in program development, inpatient and outpatient treatment, and hospice settings.
That variety means she has supported people facing chronic illness, caregiving strain, and major life changes. Sunya draws on that background when a problem feels tangled or overwhelming.
How Sunya works
Her work combines methods such as acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-based thinking, cognitive behavioral ideas, and client-centered listening. In plain terms, she helps people notice what matters to them, learn practical skills, and try new ways of handling distress. Sessions focus on clear steps and real-life changes rather than jargon.
Sunya also addresses relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, substance-related challenges, and identity matters for LGBT people. She pays attention to how past attachment and loss shape present behavior and choices. Her approach aims to strengthen coping, improve communication, and rebuild a sense of hope.
Sessions are offered in English and Hindi from Georgia. She holds credentials as a clinical social worker (CSW) and a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW). People typically start by describing their main concern and setting small, manageable goals together.
Sunya lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Sunya works with
The areas below are the ones Sunya 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Hindi |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Sunya commonly uses acceptance and commitment therapy and attachment-based approaches in her online work. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice thoughts and emotions without getting stuck in them, then take steps toward the life they value. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Attachment-based therapy looks at early bonding and relationship patterns to understand how those patterns affect current relationships and emotional responses, which can help with intimacy, communication, and grief.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist partners with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process may combine techniques so sessions stay practical and tailored to real problems.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video lets people talk face-to-face when that is helpful, phone works when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be used for shorter check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it simpler to keep regular appointments, manage follow-up between sessions, and try new skills in everyday situations.
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