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Professional Leadership & Community Roles

• Founder, Rooted Mental Health
• Editor-in-Chief, Santa Clara Valley Chapter of CAMFT (SVC CAMFT)
• Committee Member, Statewide CAMFT Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee

Workshops & Speaking Engagements

Psychoeducational workshops and speaking engagements centered on mental health, relationship patterns, and culturally responsive care.

For inquiries, please email info@Rootedmh.one.

Featured Articles & Writing

When Boundaries Collide: Navigating South Asian Familial Norms in a Western Clinical Context explores how Western therapeutic boundary models can conflict with South Asian collectivist family norms, highlighting the need for culturally attuned clinical approaches that honor interdependence, reduce guilt, and help clients build boundaries that maintain family connections while fostering personal well-being.

When Survival Becomes Culture: Trauma, Adaptation, and the Mislabeling of Communities examines how historical trauma and collective survival mechanisms can embed high emotional intensity, interdependence, and hypervigilance into cultural social scripts, emphasizing that therapists must avoid mislabeling these protective adaptations as personality disorders while supporting clients in balancing collective heritage with healthy emotional safety.