About Sugandika
Dr. Sugandika Subawickrama is a licensed counselor with two decades of clinical practice. She brings 20 years of experience helping people handle anxiety, depression, stress, and major life changes.
She offers care in English and Sinhala from her New Jersey base. She focuses on practical, conversational work. Sessions aim to make thoughts and feelings easier to name.
She creates a calm space where people can say what they really mean without judgment.
Background and approach
Her approach combines talk-based methods with tools people can use between meetings. She uses client-centered listening to understand each person’s priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot patterns of thinking that keep problems going.
Dr. Subawickrama has worked across many concerns, including trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, and career questions. She also addresses attachment, abandonment, caregiver strain, and aging-related worries.
Her work includes both short-term coaching goals and longer-term therapeutic changes. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit varied schedules. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability. Her style is steady and empathic. She focuses on small steps that feel doable and builds on real-life changes clients want to make.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s experience first. The therapist listens without judgment and follows what matters most to the client, helping people set goals and speak openly about their concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It breaks problems into small steps and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then steer the work in that direction. Sessions may blend methods when that best meets the client’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and visual cues. Phone calls can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching-style prompts, and flexible contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work and family life and keep progress moving even when schedules are tight.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, New York, Arizona, Oregon, Nevada, Virginia
- Languages
- English, Sinhala
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