Associate MARRIAGE AND FAMILY Therapist #161796
415.985.6107 | shavika@thirdculturehealing.com
Telehealth, office in oakland
Supervised by Pablo Navarrete-Martinez, LMFT #113991.
Some of us have always lived in the in-between: between cultures, between inherited identities and chosen ones, between who we once were and who we want to be. If you know the feeling of always translating but never quite landing, you might have a good idea what brought me to this work.
I'm a first-generation, South Asian, therapist born and raised in the Bay Area. My own path moved through depression, burnout, the unraveling of ancestral identities I'd mistaken for my own, and through finally learning to listen to my body instead of overriding it.
I primarily work with AAPI, Arab world, BIPOC, immigrant, and multicultural adults and couples, helping partners and individuals map how their histories, cultures, and inner landscape appear in their relationships and lives. Together we pay attention to what your body holds, what your ancestors handed down, and what the culture and system asked you to carry or ignore. We'll time travel between who you were, how the past lives in your present, and what futures are actually possible from here.
My approach is relational, somatic, and IFS-informed, rooted in liberation psychology with a touch of humor, realness, and respect for the many dimensions of this work: psychological, cultural, ancestral, and beyond what's easy to name. I'm also a trained coach, and when insight needs direction, we can shift into something more structured and action-oriented.
For me, therapy is a practice. It's a continuous, on-going, personal commitment to finding union within yourself, and the world around you.
I am 2SLGBTQIA+, queer, poly & kink affirming. Neurodivergent affirming. BIPOC affirming.
www.thirdculturehealing.com
Specialties:
multicultural adults & couples
aapi, arab world, bipoc, immigrant experience
third culture, cross-cultural identity & intergenerational trauma
couples therapy & attachment/relationship patterns
c-ptsd, complex trauma, anxiety & depression
burnout & high-achieving professionals
intimacy & sex therapy
adhd/neurodivergence
spiritual exploration & spiritual emergence
Modalities:
relational / psychodynamic therapy
internal family systems (ifs) / parts work
somatic therapy
liberation psychology
transpersonal psychology
co-active coaching
mindfulness
Contact Us
Starting is easy! Use the form on the right to begin our conversation. We'll start with a free, 30 minute consultation to see if we're a good match. If we're not, for any reason, I'll provide you with other referrals that may be a better fit - my commitment is to your well-being first!