About Dhruti
Dhruti Shah is a licensed counselor who blends practical psychotherapy with compassionate listening. She holds the LPC and LCPC credentials and brings seven years of clinical experience to conversations about fear, anxiety, and everyday stress. She works in English, Gujarati, and Hindi and practices from Kansas while accepting international clients.
Dhruti focuses on helping people face specific worries such as phobias, panic, and avoidance. She also addresses depression, addiction, grief, sleep problems, anger, and struggles with self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and paced to each person's needs so sessions stay focused and useful. In sessions she mixes cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and person-centered conversation. That means clients learn practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors while also being heard and supported.
She may add emotion-focused strategies when relationships and attachment patterns are central to the concern. Her work often brings in simple eastern practices such as breathing and mindful movement alongside evidence-based counseling. These are offered as tools to manage stress, calm the body, and help notice unhelpful patterns.
Dhruti explains techniques in plain language so they can be used between sessions. She aims to help people reconnect with their strengths and find small, steady steps forward. New clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions through the usual process.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on what matters to the person and on small committed steps toward those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches clear skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that maintain anxiety, phobias, and low mood. It uses structured exercises and practice between sessions to reduce avoidance and build confidence. Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at how emotions drive reactions in close relationships and supports people in identifying needs and expressing them in healthier ways.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together the client and therapist choose methods that match current needs and adjust the plan over time as progress and challenges appear.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and skill demonstration. Phone sessions and live chat can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, homework prompts, and ongoing skill practice between synchronous sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use techniques where they are most relevant.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas
- Languages
- English, Gujarati, Hindi
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