Neel Panchmatia (he/they)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

I use ACT to help clients make room for difficult thoughts and emotions while reconnecting with their values, choices, and sense of meaning. Rather than trying to eliminate pain, we work on building psychological flexibility, self-compassion, and a life that feels more aligned.

Gestalt

Gestalt therapy supports awareness, presence, embodiment, and integration. I use Gestalt-informed work to help clients notice patterns, emotions, body signals, unfinished experiences, and parts of self that may need attention, expression, or compassionate contact.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

I use IFS-informed parts work to help clients relate to inner conflict, protectors, wounded parts, shame, fear, and self-criticism with curiosity and compassion. This work can support integration, self-trust, and a more caring relationship with the many parts of who you are.

Somatic Therapy (Body Centered)

I integrate somatic awareness to help clients notice how stress, grief, trauma, identity, and emotion live in the body. Our work may include slowing down, tracking sensations, supporting nervous system regulation, and reconnecting with the body as a source of wisdom and safety.

Humanistic 

My work is grounded in a person-centered, humanistic belief that clients are not problems to be fixed, but whole people with wisdom, resilience, and capacity for growth. I aim to offer a collaborative, nonjudgmental space where your experience is met with care and respect.

Loss or Grief

Grief is not only about death. It can arise through relationship changes, identity shifts, illness, migration, family rupture, spiritual loss, and major life transitions. I support clients in making space for sorrow, honoring what has changed, and slowly reconnecting with meaning, steadiness, and life before, during, and after loss.

LGBTQ Issues

As a queer, nonbinary therapist, I offer affirming therapy for LGBTQ+ clients navigating identity, relationships, family, culture, grief, spirituality, sexuality, gender, and belonging. Our work may include healing from shame, strengthening self-trust, building community and support, integrating parts of yourself, and building a life that feels more honest, expressive, celebrated and free.

Spirituality

I welcome clients exploring spirituality, faith, doubt, religious wounds, community-of-origin exile, devotion, meaning, existential questions, or spiritual identity. My approach is spiritually open and non-dogmatic, honoring both spiritual and non-spiritual ways of making meaning. Therapy can be a place to explore these questions with curiosity, care and respect.

Immigration/Acculturation

As a multilingual immigrant and transnational person, I understand how migration, culture, family expectations, belonging, identity, and grief can shape mental health. I support clients navigating cultural transitions, diaspora grief, intergenerational patterns, and the complexity of living between worlds while honoring their own hybrid identity, voice, and expression.

Body Image Issues

I work from a body-affirming, fat liberation, HAES-informed lens that honors body diversity and challenges shame-based ideas about worth, beauty, health, and belonging. Together we can explore your relationship with your body, food, identity, culture, illness, disability, and self-trust with compassion rather than judgment.