Our Services
Resilience Training for Youth & Adults
Using a trauma-informed and empirically-supported resilience enhancing model (originally designed for deployed military personnel), Dr. Kanchi coaches her clients a wide range of skills across key domains that boost resilience; these include emotional regulation, communication, problem-solving, goal-setting, narrative self-reflection, and management of trauma/stress triggers. The training aims to build self awareness and regulation, mental agility, distress tolerance, optimism, gratitude, self-compassion, minimize critical/counter productive thoughts, cultivate an inner-ally (and crush the inner critic), as well as strengthen relationships.
The training is customized to each client, based on existing strengths and areas of growth.
This training is suitable for youth and adults.
Resilience Training for Young Athletes
Teen and young adult athletes often face a myriad of challenges, ranging from performance pressure and competition stress to injury setbacks and balancing academics with sports commitments. These challenges can take a toll on their mental well-being and hinder their ability to perform at their best.
Engaging in a resilience skills training program offers young athletes the opportunity to develop crucial psychological tools to navigate these obstacles with resilience and determination. By learning strategies to manage stress, bounce back from setbacks, maintain focus, and cultivate a positive mindset, athletes can not only enhance their athletic performance but also build resilience that extends to all areas of their lives. Resilience training empowers youth athletes to overcome adversity, thrive in the face of challenges, and achieve their full potential on and off the court.
Resilience training for young athletes can be delivered in an individual or group format.
Youth Mental Health
Dr. Kanchi brings extensive knowledge and experience working with youth with various backgrounds and presenting problems, such as depression, anxiety, adjustment difficulties, post traumatic stress symptoms, defiance, grief, body image and self esteem issues, performance stress/anxiety in youth athletes, bullying, academic pressures, and overall poor stress management.
Notably, Dr. Kanchi tailors her treatment approach to each child’s developmental age and incorporates play therapy (for younger kids), games, art, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to foster engagement, learning, and healing. Her gentle, warm, fun-loving, and active approach facilitates strong rapport with children and adolescents. Together, they work to enhance a multitude of skills, such as emotion identification and regulation, confidence, self-agency, self-compassion, mindful awareness, problem solving, time management, optimism and gratitude — all of which help to build their coping repertoire and resilience! Dr. Kanchi collaborates with parents/primary caregivers to provide psychoeducation and developmental guidance.
Referrals for family therapy may be provided when deemed necessary.
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorders can be debilitating and impact many aspects of one’s lives. Dr. Kanchi treats a range of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, performance anxiety, panic disorder, specific phobias, anxiety due to a medical condition, and social anxiety disorder. Common symptoms can include:
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Persistent, excessive fear or worry
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Difficulty controlling the worries
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Feeling tense or jumpy
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Restlessness or irritability
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Anticipating the worst and being watchful for signs of danger
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Pounding or racing heart and shortness of breath
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Sweating, tremors and twitches
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Headaches, fatigue and insomnia
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Upset stomach, diarrhea
Using Cognitive behavioral therapy — an evidenced-based, leading treatment for anxiety disorders — Dr. Kanchi works with her clients to teach essential skills to effectively combat the anxiety disorder and thrive.
Physician Wellness
Medical trauma is defined as ‘a set of psychological and physiological responses to pain, injury, serious illness, medical procedures and frightening treatment experiences.’ Not only the patients, but their caregivers, siblings, and other loved ones can experience trauma symptoms as well. Common symptoms can include nightmares, flashbacks, recurrent and intrusive thoughts or images of the trauma, distress when reminded of the trauma (e.g. with a thought, sound, or even smell), avoidance of conversations, people, or places, heightened startle response, fear, sleeping problems, and trouble concentrating, to name a few. When these symptoms persist, it can negatively impact one’s day-to-day functioning, treatment adherence, lead to mental health co-morbidities (like anxiety, panic attacks, depression, substance abuse), and hinder optimal recovery. Trauma-informed treatment is critical in alleviating symptoms and restoring emotional wellbeing.
Dr. Kanchi brings over a decade of experience with trauma-informed treatment to help her clients not only reduce their stressors and trauma reactions, but also give them the tools to thrive and make meaning in the context of their unique medical journeys.
Maternal Mental Health/ Perinatal Mental Health
Motherhood is an incredibly meaningful and joyous experience that brings a deep sense of love and fulfillment into one’s life; however, it’s also a journey with significant challenges for many, including infertility and repeated miscarriages, concerns of high genetic risks for the baby, life-threatening prenatal diagnoses with traumatic admissions to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), having limited support, feeling anxious and worried about making mistakes, having frequent tearfulneses and feelings of sadness, as well as difficulties finding a balance with work and children.
Maternal mental health conditions such as anxiety, perinatal and postpartum depression, traumatic birth-related PTSD, are common complications of pregnancy and childbirth, all of which may lead to negative outcomes if left untreated. Fortunately, therapy is an effective first-line treatment for reducing these symptoms.
Dr. Kanchi works with mothers to offer support across the entire journey of motherhood. Given her own role as a mother of two children, Dr. Kanchi is committed to helping other moms to heal, thrive, and find joy in motherhood.
Medical Illness/Injury + Medical Trauma
Medical trauma is defined as ‘a set of psychological and physiological responses to pain, injury, serious illness, medical procedures and frightening treatment experiences.’ Not only the patients, but their caregivers, siblings, and other loved ones can experience trauma symptoms as well. Common symptoms can include nightmares, flashbacks, recurrent and intrusive thoughts or images of the trauma, distress when reminded of the trauma (e.g. with a thought, sound, or even smell), avoidance of conversations, people, or places, heightened startle response, fear, sleeping problems, and trouble concentrating, to name a few. When these symptoms persist, it can negatively impact one’s day-to-day functioning, treatment adherence, lead to mental health co-morbidities (like anxiety, panic attacks, depression, substance abuse), and hinder optimal recovery. Trauma-informed treatment is critical in alleviating symptoms and restoring emotional wellbeing.
Dr. Kanchi brings over a decade of experience with trauma-informed treatment to help her clients not only reduce their stressors and trauma reactions, but also give them the tools to thrive and make meaning in the context of their unique medical journeys.
Entertainment Industry
Amidst the incredible talent, creativity, and passion, mental health issues are also widespread in the entertainment industry. Some of the rigors and unique stressors of the industry landscape include high stress work settings, career uncertainty, coping with the increase in fame (and the inherent pressure that comes with it), brutal hours on set, social media criticisms, performance anxiety, body image issues, and poor work-life balance, to name a few. All of these experiences can impede performance, growth, creativity, and wellbeing.
As a psychologist in Los Angeles, Dr. Kanchi has worked with youth and adult actors/actresses, reality TV cast members/contributors, models, and other professionals from the industry to equip them with the tools necessary to build resilience and face their obstacles head on. She also worked for an entertainment psychology agency to provide brief psychological screenings and evaluations, as well as post-production interviews for contributors.
Dr. Kanchi offers flexibility in scheduling sessions, allowing for individuals in the industry to access support on-the-go.